All Saints' Church, Daresbury
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All Saints' Church from the south
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 All Saints' Church, Daresbury
Location in Cheshire
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| Coordinates: 53°20′26″N 2°37′52″W / 53.3406°N 2.6312°W | |
| OS grid reference | SJ 580,828 |
| Location | Daresbury, Cheshire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | All Saints, Daresbury |
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| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade II* |
| Designated | 8 January 1970 |
| Architect(s) | Paley and Austin |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Gothic, Gothic Revival |
| Completed | 1872 |
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| Materials | Red sandstone, slate roof |
| Administration | |
| Parish | All Saints, Daresbury |
| Deanery | Great Budworth |
| Archdeaconry | Chester |
| Diocese | Chester |
| Province | York |
| Clergy | |
| Vicar(s) | David Felix |
| Laity | |
| Reader(s) | Linda Mills, Gill Younger |
| Director of music | Claire Longstaff |
| Organist(s) | Bob Owens |
| Churchwarden(s) | Doug Johnson, Brian Heakin |
| Parish administrator | Stuart Wigley |
All Saints' Church is in the village of Daresbury, Cheshire, England. It is known for its association with Lewis Carroll who is commemorated in its stained glass windows depicting characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The church is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth. The author Lewis Carroll was born in All Saints' Vicarage in 1832 when his father, Charles Dodgson, was perpetual curate at the church. This was commemorated in March 2012 when the Lewis Carroll Centre, attached to the church, was opened.
In the 12th century a chapelry was founded on the site of the present church as a daughter house of Norton Priory. It was a chapel of ease within the parish of Runcorn. After the Reformation the patronage of the Runcorn parish passed into the hands of Christ Church, Oxford. It is likely that the stone tower was built shortly after this time. Over the years there were frequent disputes between the worshippers at Daresbury and the mother church at Runcorn relating to financial matters.
Other than the tower, the church was largely rebuilt between 1870 and 1872 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin. They lengthened the church, extended the clerestory to the east, and added a new north porch and vestry, at a cost of £6,000 (equivalent to £480,000 in 2015). During the restoration an old rood loft and screen were destroyed. Richards identified this as of "pure Welsh type" and its loss as "nothing short of a major calamity". Daresbury became a parish separate from Runcorn in February 1880. Families who have been associated with the church over the centuries are those of Greenall, Rylands, Chadwick, Heron, Milner, Houghton, and Okell. The tower was restored in 1872 by Sir Gilbert Greenall.
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