All Saints Church () was an
Anglican
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church
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on Wiener Straße in
Dresden
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. It was in the
Early English Period
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of
Neo-Gothic
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architecture.
History
The church was made possible by an endowment from the widow of Wilhelm Heinrich Göschen (William Henry Goschen), a merchant from
Saxony
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living in
London
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. It was built from 1868 to 1869 by
August Pieper and the London architect
James Piers St Aubyn
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Early life
St Aubyn was ...
for the many Anglicans living in Dresden. It was a small three-aisle basilica design, with a low choir and a polygonal apse. To its south was a square tower based on the
Marburg Elisabethkirche with a tall octagonal spire. The roof was open on the inside and covered in sculpture. The church was only slightly damaged in the
First World War
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but nevertheless fell out of use.
In 1927, a contractual agreement was reached between the ''All Saint's English episcopal church eV'' and the
Evangelical-Lutheran ''St.-Pauls-Gemeinde'' to transfer the church for use by that congregation.
The church burned down in the
Dresden bombings
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of 13 and 14 February 1945. The ruins were demolished in 1952.
See also
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All Saints' Church, Leipzig
References
External links
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Former churches in Dresden
Former Anglican church buildings in Germany
19th-century Anglican church buildings in Germany
1868 establishments in the North German Confederation
Churches completed in 1869
1952 disestablishments in East Germany