Researched and prepared for a guest slot at a talk by Amir Dotan (The History of Stoke Newington) on 28th September 2017 at the current Methodist Church on Green Lanes.
With archive material from my father who worked in the old church from the 1920s to the 1960s, presented in over 60 slides.
• Find out how much it cost to build the Victorian church
• See flyers for The Band of Hope from the 20s and 30s
• Find out what really happened to the spire
• View church newsletter extracts from the 60s
• Find out how the church was at the heart of the community right back to the 1920s
• Look at black & white and colour photos of the interior, exterior, and of congregation/ staff never before seen by the public.
• Find out about the nearby church manse
• Learn about the massive effort to raise funds to rebuild
• Discover where services were held after the fire and before the red brick church was built
• Watch original footage of the church burning in the late 1960s
Researched and prepared for a guest slot at a talk by Amir Dotan (The History of Stoke Newington) on 28th September 2017 at the current Methodist Church on Green Lanes.
With archive material from my father who worked in the old church from the 1920s to the 1960s, presented in over 60 slides.
• Find out how much it cost to build the Victorian church
• See flyers for The Band of Hope from the 20s and 30s
• Find out what really happened to the spire
• View church newsletter extracts from the 60s
• Find out how the church was at the heart of the community right back to the 1920s
• Look at black & white and colour photos of the interior, exterior, and of congregation/ staff never before seen by the public.
• Find out about the nearby church manse
• Learn about the massive effort to raise funds to rebuild
• Discover where services were held after the fire and before the red brick church was built
• Watch original footage of the church burning in the late 1960s
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The earliest written record for Leamington in 1086
Above is the original Domesday (1086) entry for Lamintone with a translation below. There is mention
of a priest living in the village which indicates the existence of a church building.
EARL ROGER holds Lamintone of the king. There are 2 hides. There is land for 8 ploughs. In demesne
are 2 [ploughs], and 3 slaves; and 5 villans with a priest and 3 bordars have 4 ploughs. There are 2 mills
rendering 24s., and 26 acres of meadow. It was worth 50s.; and afterwards 25s.; now 4ls. Wulfwine held
it freely TRE. ......
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Remains of Kenilworth Abbey
In 1166 the manor of Lemynton with the church and mill was given to the Augustinian Priory of
Kenilworth.The village became known as Lemynton Priors to reflect its monastic origins.
The sandstone effigy of an Abbott was dug up near the parish church in Leamington in 1870.
Far right is the seal of Kenilworth Abbey which had been raised in status from a Priory.
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The Lay Subsidy Roll of 1332
Lemynton Prior (Hundred of Knightlow)
s. d.
Richard Knappe 1 10
Juliana Erneys 2 3
Maud Kyng 1 2
Juliana le Fremon 6 0
Joh Newemon 1 9
Maud Prat 3 0
Roger de Craft 4 0
Simon son of the reeve 3 9
Henry le Carpenter 2 5
Agnes Baroun 2 2
Henry Austyn 1 7
Peter le Warde 2 4
Richard de Hulle 4 7
Peter le Ryche 2 0
Simon Prat 1 6
Robert de Podemor 1 6
Total 41s 10d
On the left is a list of the householders who lived in Lemynton Priors when the Lay Subsidy,
a form of taxation was collected in the reign of Edward III in 1332.
On the right is a list of the Vicars of Lemynton compiled from the Registers of the Bishops of
Worcester. 1349 was the year of the Black Death and three Vicars died in office in that year.
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King James 1 subsequently bestowed it on Sir Fulke
Greville in 1605.
Both men are buried in St Mary’s church in Warwick.
Ambrose Dudley
Sir Fulke Greville
In 1564 Queen Elizabeth granted the manor of
Lemynton to Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick
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This watercolour of 1810 is the earliest illustration of the old medieval church which was described
as being ‘small and rude’ and resembling an Abbey Church in miniature.
The tomb with the railings round marks the burial place of Ben Stachwell.
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This Engraving circa 1820 shows the old church and half-timbered cottages and shops near the West door.
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Revd Robert Downes came to Leamington as Vicar in 1823 and commenced a series of extensions to
the Medieval church to accommodate the huge increase in the number of worshippers.
The spire above the original tower is one of his additions.
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Apart from enlarging the church, Robert Downes also had burial vaults constructed in 1825 on the north
side of the church to compensate for the loss of burial space in the churchyard. There was space in the
vaults for 180 bodies and these spaces could be purchased by families or by individuals.
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The vaults under the North Transept
are almost full, the last interment was in
1855. Many of the incised tablets on
the vaults are now badly eroded. The
cast iron gates and spikes were to
deter body snatchers from removing
corpses to sell to medical schools for
dissection by students.
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Among those interred in the vaults are
some of the town’s wealthier residents
and benefactors of the new church.
Behind this rusty, cast iron door are the
remains of the five Manners-Sutton
sisters, daughters of the Archbishop of
Canterbury. ( See ‘People’ page on this
website. )
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This is how the church probably looked when Revd. Robert Downes exchanged livings with
Revd.Joh Craig in 1839. Downes continued to live in Leamington until his death in 1859 leaving his
parish in Fetcham, Surrey in the care of curates.
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Revd John Craig
John Craig arrived as vicar of All Saints in
1839 having paid his predecessor Robert
Downes £1,000 principally to compensate
him for his loss of income from renting pews.
‘Johnny’ Craig was an Irishman by birth
and he had a considerable fortune which he
planned to lavish on building projects in his
new parish. A local journalist of the time
George Morley reported that in a period of
twelve months Craig had an income in
excess of £100,000.
Craig was variously described as learned,
eloquent, generous and eccentric in mind
and body. With his spare figure and rapid,
tottering gait he was a familiar sight and one
of the great characters of Victorian
Leamington. He soon outlined plans to
demolish the small Medieval church and to
build, mainly at his own expense, one of the
largest parish churches in England which he
himself would design and that is what he did.
Unsurprisingly, the project was dogged by
controversy and by Craig’s insistence on
being his own architect and clerk of
works.The church was still not completed
when he died in 1877.
14. CRAIG’S
VISION
FOR THE NEW
CHURCH
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These are two of Craig’s designs for the
new All Saints which was to have a central
tower and a spire almost three hundred feet
tall with a separate angel tower and a
campanile for the bells.
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Not long after his arrival, John Craig began
something of a charm offensive in the town. In a
series of meetings in the old town hall in 1842
he outlined his aspirations and showed drawings
of the proposed new church. While the
parishioners were not opposed to his ambitious
plans, their main concern was to ensure that
should funding fall short of his expectations,
then the churchwardens would not be called on
to make up any shortfall from the church rate.
Such assurances were given and the required
faculty was granted by the Bishop of Worcester.
Construction work began in the late summer of
1843 when the foundation stone for the lantern
tower was laid.
Work also commenced on the nave with
monies from pew rents covering some of the
cost. The old church tower was left in situ as a
support for the scaffolding required for the
construction of the new nave roof. The nave
opened for worship in May 1844 and work then
began on the chancel and the east windows.
’Johnnie’ Craig’s publicity machine again went
into overdrive in June 1846 when he laid on a
dinner for 350 residents at Elliston’s Music Hall in
Bath Street. Work then began on the north
transept but the whole project ground to a halt
in 1849 and for the next eighteen years no
construction of any sort took place.
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Noted Leamington artist Fred Whitehead painted this scene in 1844 from the banks of the river Leam.
It shows the nave of the new church rising above the north transept of the old church.
The old tower was temporarily retained within the new nave to support scaffolding used to build the new roof.
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The 1850’s were difficult years for the irrepressible Craig. He
had had to abandon his grandiose designs for a church with
three towers when the nave columns were discovered not to
be substantial enough to support the weight of a tower and
spire over the crossing. Although the part-built church could
now seat two thousand worshippers, parts of the building,
mainly the south transept, were still far from finished and the
nave roof let in the rain.
Both Craig’s wife Helena and his only son Robert died and
he was himself in poor health. He became embroiled in law
suits relating to his handling of moneys for the church
rebuilding and was imprisoned for a month in Warwick jail for
alleged misappropriation. In spite of all these setbacks he still
found time to indulge another of his interests astronomy, by
building on Wandsworth Common in London one of the
largest telescopes in the world.
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Although John Craig still legally held the living, his
involvement in All Saints was greatly reduced and
his curates were left to oversee the affairs of the
parish. The parishioners had by this time become
very fed up with having to attend divine worship
in a building site for twenty years and they
wanted to see the building finished.
The church was closed for a period in 1866 as
the temporary roof was found to be in a
dangerous condition. A church completion
committee was set up but its members couldn’t
agree and replacements had to be found.
Competitions were eventually held for schemes
to finish the building.
In 1870 John Craig’s third wife Jane died and
he became seriously ill and died at the vicarage
in 1877 after a long and painful illness which
necessitated having one of his legs amputated.
His funeral was the largest ever seen in
Leamington and ten thousand people lined the
roads to the cemetery in Tachbrook Road.
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This is how the church appeared when completed in the 1860’s. Craig’s lofty tower and spire were never built and
there is still a raised square section of flat roof above the crossing where they should have been.
The building in the centre is the vicarage built by Robert Downes and named The Priory.
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This engraving of the church interior at about the same date shows an organ on a balcony
above the west door and galleries in the north transept (right) that were removed after the
church was extended by Sir Arthur Blomfield in 1900.
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The building that emerged towards
the end of the 19 th century was
of impressive proportions but there
was no provision for the church
bells which had hung in mute
silence in a temporary wooden
belfry in a corner of the churchyard
for over fifty years.
The church was hemmed in by
houses built in Church Walk and
by a row of terraced shops within
feet of the west door. The old well
house also seen had been erected
by the Earl of Aylesford in 1813
but was demolished in the 1960’s.
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In the 1890‘s the church purchased the shops in front of the west door and had them
demolished. The Church Walk properties were also demolished This lantern slide shows
the newly-cleared area in front of the church with The Priory just visible on the left.
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The church is completed
In 1898 the eminent architect Sir Arthur
Blomfield (above) was commissioned to
draw up designs for the completion of the
church almost fifty years after construction
work had first begun. The work involved
adding two additional bays at the west end
of the nave and building a linked bell tower
145 feet tall. The enlarged nave was
dedicated on All Saints Day (November 1st)
1900 and the bell tower on October 30th
1902. The 1905 postcard (right) clearly
indicates the porous quality of the earlier
sandstone used by Craig which has turned
quite black due to atmospheric pollution.
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This photograph taken at the west end of the church in October 1902 shows Mr G F Smith the local builder who
carried out Blomfield’s extensions with seventy of his workmen who had worked on the building all dressed in
their ‘Sunday best’. G F Smith is the bearded man holding the top hat (seated centre), on his immediate right is
the vicar Canon Cecil Hook and to his right Alderman Sidney Flavel the vicar’s churchwarden (with walking cane).
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The photograph (above) of Rev Cecil Hook’s staff in 1900 reflects the level
of church going in Leamington in the late Victorian period. Both Cecil Hook
(above left) and his successor Rev W Armstrong Buck (left) had the task of
furnishing the church and carrying out essential and urgent repairs to the
fabric.
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This 2013 photograph of the nave shows the difference between the clerestory windows and the
nave arches of Craig’s design and those nearest to the camera added by Arthur Blomfield in 1900.
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The three tall windows in the apse, said to be the tallest in any parish church in England were made
by Chance brothers of Smethwick and given in memory of the five Manners-Sutton sisters who lived
in Leamington. See also the Manners-Sutton sisters page on this website.
The chancel screen was designed by Blomfield and given by Alderman Sidney Flavel.
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The carved stone reredos behind the high altar
was given by the Willes family from Newbold
Comyn and is based on Leonardo da Vinci’s
famous painting of the Last Supper.
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John Craig’s legacy
John Craig had many endearing qualities, unfortunately his
greatest failing was his arrogance. There was scarcely a subject
about which Craig didn’t hold an opinion or express expertise
in and that included buildings and architecture. Many of his
design ideas for the new church were not carried out because
they were quite impractical. He is said to have employed and
sacked eleven different architects during the building of the
church and at length appointed himself Clerk of Works for the
project.
Of his many misjudgments due to a lack of professional
advice, by far and away the biggest mistake was in his choice
of local Warwick sandstone for the building. Warwick
sandstone is very soft and one of the poorest building stones
available.
Within thirty years the local newspaper was reporting on the
‘lamentably decayed condition’ of the church stonework. Rev
Armstrong Buck had the difficult task of having to raise over
£3,000 for urgent repairs to the fabric in 1907 and he is on
record as saying that in his opinion the best solution to the
problem would be to pull the entire building down.
Over the years, huge sums have been expended and
continue to be spent on the fabric of the church which currently
requires several million pounds for urgent repairs and is likely to
be included in the English Heritage ‘Buildings at Risk’ register
for 2013.
Craig silhouette Brighton 1833
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This presentation has been compiled for the Leamington History Group by member
Alan Griffin
a former verger of All Saints church
The original photographs and most of the illustrations are from his archive but he also thanks
the following for additional copyright material included here:-
Vicar and churchwardens of All Saints’ church,
Leamington Art Gallery & Museum (Warwick District Council)
Guildhall Museum, London.