All Saints Church is a

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parish church in

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History

Population expansion in the area had led the ancient parish church of St Mary's Church, Woodford to build All Saints, which opened in 1874 and was designed by F. E. C. Streatfeild. A north aisle was added in 1876 and a choir vestry in 1885. In 1875 All Saints was granted a consolidated chapelry using parts of the parishes of St Mary's and

St Peter-in-the-Forest St Peter-in-the-Forest is a 19th-century Church of England parish church in Walthamstow, East London, sited adjacent to a small portion of Epping Forest. History The building was founded in 1840 as a chapel of ease to St Mary's Church, Waltha ...

, Walthamstow, and in 1906 it became a parish of its own.

Present day

In 1979, the church was designated a

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. All Saints stands in the Charismatic

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of the Church of England.

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