{"id":733,"date":"2013-09-26T16:28:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T16:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=733"},"modified":"2020-10-20T10:41:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T10:41:37","slug":"all-saints-church-margaret-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/26\/all-saints-church-margaret-street\/","title":{"rendered":"All Saints Church, Margaret Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 100 yards north of Oxford Street in London lies one of the best examples of Victorian Gothic architecture you’ll ever see. It would be easy to miss this church, even though it has one of the highest spires of any church in London. If you don’t look up and see the spire when you stand outside, you could walk straight past. All Saints church<\/a> is set back from Margaret Street in a small courtyard. Once inside, a world of beauty opens before you.<\/p>\n

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It was designed by architect William Butterfield<\/a> in 1850 and completed by 1859. Inside, the walls are covered in spectacular tiled murals. Designed by Butterfield, they were painted by Alexander Gibbs and manufactured by Henry Poole and Sons. The floor tiles are a bold geometric design by Minton. The chancel vault is a deep blue field of stars and the reredos by William Dyce<\/a> (later copied and replaced by Ninian Comper<\/a> in the early 1900s when the original had became blackened by the London air) depicts the life of Christ ending at the vault with Christ in Majesty.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t