Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a church built between 1846 and 1848, with a chancel added in 1863, and altered in the later 19th century. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar to the facade, with the rest of the building in red brick in a three-plus-one English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The design is Classical in style, with a gable facing the street. The front facade features a three-bay pedimented portico on two steps, supported by six giant Ionic columns arranged in pairs, with an entablature, dentilled cornice, and pediment. There are three doorways, one central with a dentilled pediment on consoles, and the two side doorways shouldered, each with panelled double doors. Above each doorway is a raised geometrical panel. The roof has a rectangular wooden bellcote with an open pediment. The six-bay side walls have sandstone ashlar plinths, brick pilasters with sandstone bases and caps, sandstone ashlar corner pilasters, and continuous entablatures. Each bay features a giant round-headed window with stone imposts and keystone, containing late 19th-century joinery with round-headed lights to each floor. The apsidal chancel, added to the south end, has windows with two round-headed lights, sandstone surrounds, semi-circular brick arches with blue headers, and a Lombard frieze incorporating some blue brick. Additions are present on each side of the chancel. The interior resembles earlier 19th-century Methodist chapels, with a gallery on three sides, canted at the corners and supported by iron columns with foliated capitals, panelled front, and raked seating. Original box pews remain with their doors and numbering. The added chancel has a stilted arch with semi-columns and composite capitals, featuring elaborate moulded plasterwork above. There is also an organ house on the west side. The church was founded through a public subscription by working men who wished to bring back a former curate to Preston, and was consequently known as "the Working Man’s Church" or “the Poor man’s Church”. It is located within an Anglican tradition but holds a distinct character architecturally and socially from other churches in the town, and has a continuous evangelical history.