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William Butterfield, All Saints, Margaret Street
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(piano playing) Steven: I'm with Ayla Lepine, an architectural historian from the Courtauld Institute and we're in central London looking at All Saints Church, Margaret Street and I thought we would explore this building as a way of understanding High Victorian Gothic architecture. Ayla: Standing in the courtyard, the spire as you look up is incredibly tall, one of the tallest in London, and it was built from a group of Church of England people who were trying to restore a sense of spiritual pride for the entire nation. Steven: It's so close to us. Ayla: Even when this building was first conceived of in the late 1840's, this area of central London was very built up and so William Butterfield, the architect, had to think very strategically about how he would include a courtyard space, a full church with a grand nave and a large sanctuary, and everything required for this wonderful manifestation of the medieval world brought into modern London in this really teeny tiny confined area. Steven: So the exterior of the church, these different colored bricks. This lovely deep red and then these lines of black brick offset with this limestone. Ayla: This is something called structural polychromy. Steven: That means the polychromy, this decoration, is not on the surface but is actually the materials that are supporting the building itself. Ayla: Being outside in this confined, riotously decorative courtyard is foreshadowing because we know that when we get into the church the colors will be even more bold, even more intense and the materials will be even more diverse. Steven: This reminds me of the cathedral in Siena. There's these alternating horizontal bands. Ayla: In the early 1850's, when this building was being designed, there was an incredibly important critic and writer who was working on making medieval Italy important for Victorian architects. Steven: Presuming you're speaking about Ruskin, a critic who spent a few years focusing on architecture and was responsible for laying down a series of ideas about what true architecture should be. That the Gothic revivals to date in England had really missed the point. Ayla: Absolutely. What he believes is that in order to build honestly and to build sensitively for a new age you have to look back to the past. And instead of looking back to England's past specifically, he looks back to continental Europe. Both in terms of materials and techniques and in terms of a sense of medieval piety. Steven: So there was a sense that there was a kind of authentic life that had been lost in our new industrial culture? Ayla: Certainly and Ruskin was also a major critic of industrializationing. Steven: But it's one thing to have a theorist, a critic, developing these ideas, it's another thing to have them made real. To find somebody who's willing to put up the money, to find people who want to worship in that kind of environment. So what's happening in England that allows for this to actually come to fruition? Ayla: In the 1830's something called the Oxford Movement begins, unimaginatively enough in Oxford, with a small group of academics who are convinced that the Church of England really needs to be revivified and they look to times before the Reformation. Steven: So looking back to Catholic traditions- Ayla: And even earlier, to the Church fathers who are in the first centuries of Christianity. And it starts off as a very intellectual movement, it's about theology. But then later in the 1830's, a group of men in Cambridge begin to think about how art and architecture of the middle ages can help to promote that earlier Oxford vision. So it comes out of those two universities and eventually that group in Cambridge become the Ecclesiological Society. Steven: And they're ideological sponsors of this building. Ayla: Like A.J. Beresford Hope, who's also a politician and who's a very important writer and thinker in his own right, who puts up the money to create All Saints Margaret Street behind us. Steven: All right, well let's go in and take a look. We've walked into the church. It's beautiful, quiet, dark space. I'm seeing inlaid stone and tile, so how is image and ritual related? Ayla: This building is certainly about the word and it's about scripture but it's also about the east end of the building. It's about the sanctuary. So it's much more focused on what happens on the high altar on the bread and the wine and on what's called the revelation of Christ to humanity, so it's about meeting God in a much more multisensory, full body way. And that's so much of the reason why the visual is so important and telling stories is so important in this building. Steven: The Eucharist does seem like the perfect fulcrum of these ideas. The spiritual made physical. This is a kind of sensory kaleidoscope. Ayla: The ornament and the pattern is most concentrated at the east end of the church where the altar is and also a low but very heavy stone screen which is inspired by John Ruskin's ideas in the Stones of Venice which seems in one way to separate the congregation from all of the special things that are happening in the sanctuary where the bread and wine will be broken and then distributed but it also highlights it. Steven: That screen reminds me of Santa Sabina in Rome, that really old basilica church. Ayla: Because Santa Sabina is such an early example of Christian architecture, it is a real source of inspiration for Victorian architects. You were mentioning authenticity before and what this building is trying to do is genuinely capture all the generations of Christian history, right from the first century. Steven: As we approach the east end of the church, the light came in through this clear story and the sanctuary is now much brighter. Ayla: Instead of having big windows on the ground floor they're actually up above the main arcades on either side. So we have a sense of light descending from above with all of the kind of divine symbolism that comes along with that. It's a very typical way of introducing light in a medieval building. Now what we can see on the east wall is the life of Christ. Steven: Very historicized like the building itself. This is clearly a kind of Victorian conception of 14th century Italian art. Ayla: In the 1840's, when this building was conceived, William Dyce, a very famous Victorian painter, was invited by the patron and by Butterfield, the architect, to paint saints and the life of Christ on the east wall. This deteriorated and soon afterwards, John Ninian Comper repainted Dyce's work in his own style. Comper loved early Italian Renaissance painting. Steven: I want to go back to the artist Dyce for a moment. I'm thinking about some of Dyce's landscape paintings like Pegwell Bay for example, which shows his family picking up perhaps shells and a kind of interest in the natural world, in natural science and yet to think of him in this context, painting the spiritual, there lies an interesting tension in the 19th century between the development of Darwinian thinking, geologic time, and then here, spiritual understanding, spiritual time. Ayla: Actually there was a much more integrated way of thinking about God and science in the mid-Victorian period. Steven: In this church there's stone that was chosen that actually includes fossils. Ayla: Yes, and that screen that we were talking about before, the step that everyone would have to step onto in order to get into the sanctuary and in order to participate in that giving of the bread and the wine. And we can also see it in the top most element of the screen and so the passage of geological time is present even in this most holy threshold of the building. The other place where we can see it is at the font. Steven: The baptismal font. There is something that is awesome and overwhelming when one thinks about the time that this stone represents and you see the creatures that are embedded within it. The mathematical precision of science and spirituality, the infinite come together. Ayla: In the mid-19th century Victorians were struggling with what the discoveries that they were making really might mean. (piano playing)
Albania
Australia
- All Saints Church, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
- All Saints Anglican Church, Brisbane, Queensland
- All Saints Anglican Church, Hindmarsh, Adelaide, South Australia, now Holden Street Theatres
- All Saints Anglican Church, Henley Brook, Western Australia
Barbados
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
São Paulo state
Canada
Ontario
China
Czech Republic
Germany
Bavaria
Saxony
Saxony-Anhalt
Thuringia
Hong Kong
Kowloon
- All Saints' Cathedral, Mong Kok - All Saints' Church before consecrated a cathedral
India
- All Saint's Church, Jaipur, designed by Samuel Swinton Jacob
- All Saints Syro Malabar Church, Koppam Vithura
- All Saints Church, Pune
- All Saints Church (Secunderabad)
- All Saints Church, Srinagar
Indonesia
Ireland
- All Saints Church, Carnew, County Wicklow
- All Saints Church, Grangegorman, Dublin
- All Saints' Church, Raheny, Dublin
Italy
Malaysia
Perak
New Zealand
Auckland
- All Saints Church, Howick, Auckland
Manawatū-Whanganui
Otago
Nigeria
Lagos State
- All Saint's Parish Church, Ikosi
Pakistan
Poland
Russia
South Africa
KwaZulu-Natal
Western Cape
Spain
- All Saints' Church, Puerto de la Cruz, North Tenerife, Canary Islands
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Ukraine
United Kingdom
England
Bedfordshire
- Church of All Saints, Campton
- Church of All Saints, Houghton Regis
- Church of All Saints, Leighton Buzzard
- Church of All Saints, Odell, Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Bristol
Buckinghamshire
- All Saints Church, Bow Brickhill, Milton Keynes
- All Saints Church, Lathbury, Milton Keynes
- All Saints Church, Loughton, Milton Keynes
- All Saints' Church, Wing, Aylesbury Vale
Cambridgeshire
Cornwall
- All Saints' Church, Bryher
- All Saints Church, Marazion
Cheshire
- All Saints Church, Church Lawton
- All Saints' Church, Daresbury
- St Mary and All Saints' Church, Great Budworth
- All Saints Church, Great Saughall
- All Saints Church, Handley
- All Saints Church, Harthill
- All Saints' Church, Hoole, Chester
- All Saints Church, Marple
- All Saints' Church, Runcorn
- All Saints Church, Scholar Green
- All Saints Church, Siddington
- All Saints Chapel, Somerford
- All Saints Church, Thelwall
- All Saints' Church, Weston, Cheshire
Cumbria
- All Saints Church, Bolton
- All Saints Church, Boltongate
- All Saints Church, Burton in Lonsdale
- All Saints Church, Orton
- All Saints Church, Lupton
- All Saints Church, Scaleby
Derbyshire
- All Saints' Church, Aston-upon-Trent
- All Saints Church, Ballidon
- All Saints' Church, Bakewell
- All Saints' Church, Breadsall
- All Saints' Church, Lullington
- All Saints Church, Kedleston
Devon
- All Saints' Church, Dunterton
Dorset
- All Saints Church, Branksome
- All Saints' Church, Chalbury
- All Saints Church, Dorchester
- All Saints Church, Hampreston
- All Saints' Church, Mapperton
- All Saints Church, Nether Cerne
- All Saints Church, Portland
- All Saints' Church, Southbourne
- All Saints' Church, Stour Row
- All Saints' Church, Tarrant Keyneston
- All Saints Church, Wyke Regis
East Midlands
East Sussex
- All Saints Church, Hastings
- All Saints Church, Heathfield
- All Saints Church, Hove
- All Saints Church, Hurstmonceaux
- All Saints Church, Patcham
Essex
- All Saints Church, Creeksea
- All Saints Church, East Horndon
- All Saints Church, Maldon
- All Saints Church, Vange
- All Saints Church, Wimbish
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
- All Saints' Church, Alton
- All Saints' Church, Bassett
- All Saints Church, Crondall
- All Saints Church, East Meon
- All Saints' Church, Fawley
- All Saints Church, Little Somborne
- All Saints Church, Minstead
- All Saints Church, Odiham
- All Saints' Church, Southampton
Hertfordshire
Isle of Wight
- All Saints' Church, Calbourne
- All Saints' Church, Freshwater
- All Saints' Church, Godshill
- All Saints' Church, Gurnard
- All Saints' Church, Newchurch
- All Saints' Church, Ryde
Kent
- All Saints' Church, Boughton Aluph, near Ashford
- All Saints Church, Brenchley, near Royal Tunbridge Wells
- All Saints Church, Frindsbury
- All Saints Church, Hartley, near Sevenoaks
- All Saints Church, Lydd
- All Saints Church, Maidstone
- All Saints' Church, Shuart
- All Saints Church, Snodland
- All Saints Church, Staplehurst
- All Saints Church, Sutton (Kent)
- All Saints Church, Ulcombe
- All Saints Church, Waldershare
- All Saints Church, Westbere
- All Saints Church, West Stourmouth
- Hope Church of All Saints, near New Romney
Lancashire
- All Saints Church, Hesketh Bank
- All Saints Church, Higher Walton
- All Saints Church, Preston
- All Saints' Church, Urmston
Leicestershire
- All Saints Church, Beeby
- All Saints Church, Dunton Bassett
- All Saints Church, Gilmorton
- All Saints Church, Leicester
- All Saints Church, Long Whatton
- All Saints Church, Loughborough
- All Saints Church, Narborough
- All Saints Church, Scraptoft
- All Saints Church, Swinford
- All Saints Church, Wigston Magna
Lincolnshire
- All Saints Church, Barrowby
- Old All Saints Church, Great Steeping
- All Saints Church, Haugham
- All Saints' Church, Horsington
- All Saints Church, Saltfleetby
- All Saints Church, Theddlethorpe
- All Saints Church, Winterton
London
- All Saints Church, Benhilton, Sutton
- All Saints' Blackheath
- All Saints, Camden Town
- All Saints, Chingford
- All Saints Church, East Sheen
- All Saints' Church, Edmonton
- All Saints Church, Fulham
- All Saints' Church, Isleworth
- All Saints Church, Harrow Weald
- All Saints Church, Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge
- All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames
- All Saints, Margaret Street
- All Saints Notting Hill
- All Saints' Church, Oakleigh Park, Barnet
- All Saints Church, Peckham
- All Saints' Church, Putney Common
- All Saints Church, Poplar
- All Saints Church, Tufnell Park
- All Saints Church, Twickenham
- All Saints Church, Wandsworth
- All Saints Church, West Dulwich
- All Saints Church, West Ham
Merseyside
- All Saints' Church, Childwall
- All Saints Church, Speke, Liverpool
- All Saints' Church, St Helens, Sutton, St Helens
- All Saints Church, Thornton Hough
Norfolk
- All Saints Church, Ashwicken
- All Saints Church, Billockby
- All Saints Church, Boughton
- All Saints Church, Cockley Cley
- All Saints Church, Crostwight
- All Saints Church, Croxton
- All Saints Church, Hargham
- All Saints Church, Hilgay
- All Saints Church, Narborough
- All Saints Church, Newton by Castle Acre
- All Saints Church, North Runcton
- All Saints Church, Old Buckenham
- All Saints Church, Shipdham
- All Saints Church, Shouldham
- All Saints Church, Snetterton
- All Saints Church, South Lynn
- All Saints Church, Stoke Ferry
- All Saints Church, Thurgarton
- All Saints Church, Walsoken
- All Saints Church, West Harling
- All Saints Church, Wilby
- All Saints Church, Wretton
Northamptonshire
- All Saints Church, Aldwincle
- All Saints' Church, Barnwell
- All Saints' Church, Brixworth
- All Saints' Church, Earls Barton
- All Saints Church, Holdenby
- All Saints' Church, Northampton
- All Saints Church, Wellingborough
- Church of All Saints, Thorpe Malsor
Nottinghamshire
- All Saints' Church, Nottingham
- All Saints' Church, Syerston
- All Saints' Church, Thrumpton
- All Saints' Church, Weston, Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Shropshire
- All Saints Church, Berrington
- All Saints Church, Claverley
- All Saints Church, Shelve
- All Saints Church, Worthen
Somerset
- Church of All Saints, Alford
- All Saints Church, Dodington
- Church of All Saints, East Pennard
- Church of All Saints, Kingston Seymour
- Church of All Saints, Long Ashton, a Grade II* listed building in North Somerset
- Church of All Saints, Langport
- Church of All Saints, Lullington
- Church of All Saints, Martock
- Church of All Saints, Monksilver
- Church of All Saints, Nunney
- Church of All Saints, Nynehead
- Church of All Saints, Publow
- Church of All Saints, Selworthy
- Church of All Saints, Sutton Bingham
- Church of All Saints, Trull
- Church of All Saints, West Camel
- All Saints' Church, Weston, Somerset
- All Saints Church, Woolley
- Church of All Saints, Wootton Courtenay
- All Saints Church, Wraxall
- Church of All Saints, Wrington
Staffordshire
Suffolk
- All Saints Church, Easton
- All Saints Church, Ellough
- All Saints' Church, Icklingham
- All Saints Church, Little Wenham
- All Saints Church, Newmarket
- All Saints Church, Newton Green
- All Saints Church, South Elmham
- All Saints Church, Wordwell
- All Saints Church, Wickhambrook
Surrey
- All Saints Church, Carshalton
- All Saints Church, Oxted
Tyne and Wear
Warwickshire
- All Saints Church, Billesley
- All Saints Church, Chadshunt
- All Saints Church, Leamington Spa
- All Saints Church, Weston-on-Avon
West Midlands
- All Saints' Church, Small Heath (I)
- All Saints' Church, Small Heath (II)
- St Mary & All Saints, Walsall
West Sussex
Wiltshire
- All Saints Church, Alton Priors
- All Saints Church, Idmiston
- All Saints Church, Lydiard Millicent
- The Church of All Saints, Maiden Bradley
Worcestershire
Yorkshire
- All Saints' Church, Appleton-le-Street, North Yorkshire
- All Saints Church, Arksey, Arksey, South Yorkshire
- Church of All Saints, Aston cum Aughton, South Yorkshire
- All Saints' Church, Barwick-in-Elmet, West Yorkshire
- All Saints' Church, Batley, West Yorkshire
- Church of All Saints, Bingley, West Yorkshire
- All Saints' Church, Bramham, West Yorkshire
- All Saints' Church, Brompton-by-Sawdon, North Yorkshire
- St John and All Saints' Church, Easingwold, North Yorkshire
- All Saints Church, Ecclesall, Sheffield
- Church of All Saints, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire
- All Saints' Church, Harewood, West Yorkshire
- Church of All Saints, Ledsham, West Yorkshire
- All Saints' Church, Normanton, West Yorkshire
- All Saints' Church, Northallerton, North Yorkshire
- Church of All Saints, Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire
- All Saints Church, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, now Rotherham Minster
- All Saints' Church, Rufforth, York
- Old All Saints Church, Skelton-in-Cleveland, North Yorkshire
- Church of All Saints, Silkstone
- All Saints Church, Thorpe Bassett, North Yorkshire
- All Saints' Church, Totley, Sheffield
- All Saints' Church, Upper Poppleton, York
- All Saints' Church, Yafforth, North Yorkshire
- All Saints' Church, North Street, York
- All Saints' Church, Pavement, York
- All Saints Church, Woodlands, South Yorkshire
Scotland
- All Saints Church, Glencarse, Perthshire
- All Saints' Church, St Andrews, Fife
Wales
- All Saints Church, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire
- All Saints Church, Deganwy, Gwynedd
- All Saints' Church, Gresford, Wrexham County Borough
- All Saints Church, Higher Kinnerton, Flintshire
- All Saints Church, Kemeys Commander, Monmouthshire
- All Saints' Church, Llangar, Denbighshire
- All Saints' Church, Oystermouth, Swansea
United States
- All Saint's Church (Oracle, Arizona)
- All Saints Episcopal Church (Pasadena, California)
- All Saints Church of Eben Ezer, Brush, Colorado
- All Saints' Episcopal Church (Atlanta), Georgia
- All Saints Catholic Church (Taylorsville, Kentucky)
- All Saints Episcopal Church (Chicago), Illinois
- Episcopal Church of All Saints (Indianapolis), Indiana
- Church of All Saints (Keokuk, Iowa)
- All Saints Catholic Church (Stuart, Iowa)
- All Saints' Church (Easton, Maryland)
- All Saints' Church (Sunderland, Maryland)
- All Saints Church at Monie, Venton, Maryland
- All Saints' Church — Ashmont (Boston), Massachusetts
- All Saints Church-Episcopal, Northfield, Minnesota
- All Saints Church (Peterborough, New Hampshire)
- All Saints' Memorial Church (Navesink, New Jersey)
- All Saints Roman Catholic Church (Buffalo, New York)
- All Saints Church (Manhattan), New York City, New York
- All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church, Raleigh, North Carolina
- All Saints Catholic Church (Cincinnati, Ohio)
- All Saints Catholic Church (New Riegel, Ohio)
- All Saints Church (Pawleys Island, South Carolina)
- All Saints Catholic Church (Houston), Texas
See also
- All Saints Anglican Church (disambiguation)
- All Saints Episcopal Church (disambiguation)
- All Saints Cathedral (disambiguation)
- All Saints Chapel (disambiguation)
- All Saints' Abbey (Baden-Württemberg)
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