ALL SAINTS CHURCH
HOVE, UK

All Saints Church in Hove was commissioned in 1879 and was designed by the great Victorian architect John Loughborough Pearson, who had just completed Truro Cathedral. All Saints is built in the thirteenth century French gothic style. Its foundation stone was laid in 1889, and the stunning east end, stone reredos, and carved choir stalls were finished about ten years later. The church is a Grade I listed building constructed of Sussex sandstone. The tower was meant to be 43 metres (140 feet) high, bearing a gothic spire, but was never completed.

Incidentally, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams married Adeline Fisher at All Saints in 1897. The service was conducted by Canon Spooner (of Spoonerism fame)!

Text partly based on the All Saints website and the All Saints Self-Guided Tour notes.

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