Art in All Saints
	Stained Glass

All Saints was built during World War One taking just two years to build, and costing £17,168. The church was paid for by a wealthy clergyman living nearby, The Revd Alexander Titley Hall, and opened in 1917. The church was designed by Temple Moore a well known architect who usually tried to make his churches look as if they were older than they really were, ideally dating back to the Middle Ages. All Saints is built of brick, but the outside is faced entirely in Chilmark stone. The architectural style could be described as late Gothic Revival.

From the outside All Saints looks strong, tall, and most people think looks bigger than it really is. Moore often used clever visual tricks to make things look bigger, older, further away, or more expensive than they really were.

Inside the visual focus is the High Altar, but overall the church seems lofty, bright, and pleasingly proportioned. There are chairs rather than pews, most of the woodwork is matching antique oak, and the building and furnishings are in the gothic style throughout.

In keeping with Gothic fashion and medieval practice the chancel and sanctuary, the parts closest to the High Altar, are more decorated, with painted ceilings, richly decorated reredos and highly detailed stained glass. The contrast with the west end of the church, around the font, is striking but works well. Here the limestone floors, Chilmark stone walls, and the golden light from the east window make for plainer, cleaner lines.

Art in All Saints
All Saints is itself a work of art in that the building and most of its furnishings represent the work of one artist, the architect Temple Moore, and form a complete whole of one creation.
From the early days of the church the most notable works are probably the striking reredos by Leslie Moore, the font by Temple Moore himself, and the Stained Glass.
Later generations have enriched the building still further, mainly under the leadership of Keith Walker who was vicar here from 1981 to 1987. Amongst the individual works of art at All Saints added, during this time, attention might be brought to the Great West Window and 'Angel' Windows by Cecil Collins, the Head of Christ by Elizabeth Frink, and the icon by Edith Reyntiens.
In 1999 All Saints commissioned an “Artist in Residence” to work with the local and church community to create over one hundred angels for the millennium.

Stained Glass at All Saints
The stained glass is one of the glories of All Saints.

	The east window is in the medieval style designed to tell a story, presumably from a time when many people couldn’t read.
	The Lady Chapel windows are unusual in that women are the main figures, Mary the mother of Jesus, Elizabeth her cousin, and Mary Magdalene.
	The West windows are much more modern in style and try to express emotions and experiences that would be hard to put into words. As well as being great pieces of art the west windows complement the more traditional stained glass in All Saints.
	This church is dedicated to all the saints and some of the better known saints are represented in stained glass on the South side of the church St Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, St Christopher, patron saint of travellers and St Boniface and in the Memorial Chapel St Alban and St Martin.