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Battersea Park
All Saints

Built: 1883
Architect: F W Hunt
Diocesan Record Office: London Metropolitan Archives

The church was destroyed by fire in 1969. A replacement church was opened in 1978.

Description

"All Saints' is a large, dark red brick church, just south of Battersea Park. It has an unusually informative foundation stone. The church was built in memory of John Sutton Utterton, Suffragan Bishop of Guildford, who died while he was ministering at the altar, at All Saints', Ryde, on St Thomas's day, 1879. The stone was laid by his wife Eleanor on St Thomas's day, 1882, and the church was consecrated in 1883. The architect was F W Hunt.

It is in the Lancet style, with a rather unusual plan: nave and aisles, and transepts - the north of very slight projection, and the south of none - with the arcades carried past them. The tower is to the east of them, over the chancel, with a chapel to the north, and organ chamber and vestry to the south. The apsidal sanctuary has a reredos erected in 1911: its walls have been whitened, and there is post-War glass. The chapel reredos and screen are by W Ellery Anderson, 1912."

(from 'Parish Churches of London', Basil F L Clarke, Batsford, 1966)

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