All Saints, Maidenhead
All Saints, Maidenhead
All Saints, Boyne Hill, is a Grade I High Victorian church by G. E. Street, completed in 1857 as the first ecclesiastical parish in the Borough of Maidenhead. It stands in Church Close off Boyn Hill Road, in the Diocese of Oxford, at the heart of a Tractarian group of buildings by the same architect.
- Location
- Maidenhead, Berkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Berkshire
- City / town
- Maidenhead
- Address
- Church Close, Boyn Hill Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 4HE
- Postcode
- SL6 4HE
- Built
- 1854-57; west bays and vestry 1907-11
- Consecrated
- 2 December 1857
- Architect
- G E Street; west extension by A E Street
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- Oxford
- Parish
- Boyne Hill
- Grade
- I
- Style
- High Victorian Gothic; polychrome Tractarian ensemble
- Materials
- Red brick with blue brick bands and Bath stone dressings; slate roofs
- Opening hours
- Open 9.30am to 12noon Mondays to Fridays, or at other times by making an appointment through the parish office 01628 621933. (visits suspended at present due to the coronavirus pandemic)
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets in church
Overview
The listing dates the church to 1854-57 by G. E. Street, with the two westernmost nave bays and south-west vestry added by A. E. Street in 1907-11. Fabric is red brick with horizontal bands of blue brick and Bath stone dressings, steep slate roofs and terracotta ridge tiles. An octagonal stone broached spire rises from a banded brick tower. The six-bay nave has slim stone column arcades with Composite capitals and four-centred polychrome arches. Relief-carved Stations of the Cross occupy the nave spandrels; Hardman glass fills the east and west windows.
Pevsner called Boyne Hill Street at his best, a powerful group of church, gate, parsonage, school and schoolmaster's house. John Betjeman referred to it as the Tractarian Cathedral. Bishop Samuel Wilberforce consecrated the church on 2 December 1857; the tower and spire were dedicated in 1865. Street designed gravestones in the churchyard for his wife and her father. The former school is now the parish centre.