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All Saints Church,
Smedley Street, DE4 3JG,
Matlock, Derbyshire.

Cemeteries

This Church has (or had) a graveyard.

Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.

Church History

This Place of Worship was founded in 1884, and we understand it is still open.

Kelly's Directory of 1932, under the heading of Matlock, records "Matlock Bank" as "comprising the north and north-eastern portions of the town", and a district on the western slope of a steep hill, rising gently to a great altitude and sheltering the valley from the east winds, as well as commanding beautiful views of the surrounding country and the course of the river Derwent.

The church of All Saints, erected in 1883-4, and consecrated 17 Sept. 1884, is "an edifice of local stone in the Early Gothic style, consisting of chancel of three bays with south vestry and organ chamber, nave of two bays and aisles". The choir stalls, communion table and reading desk are of Norwegian figured oak. A stained east window and a chancel screen were presented in 1898, the window being in memory of Elizabeth Briggs. A Lady chapel was added in 1926 in memory of the fallen in the Great War.

A new ecclesiastical parish was created in 1886. The living in 1932 was a vicarage in the gift of the Bishop of Derby, and had been held since 1926 by the Rev. William Henry Nixon, T.D., M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge.

For more information about All Saints Church, and other churches in the Matlock area, see Ann Andrews' excellent webpage of Matlock Churches and Chapels.

Denomination

Now or formerly Church of England.

If more than one congregation has worshipped here, or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this will record its original dedication.

Maps

This Church is located at OS grid reference SK2984560824. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• All Saints Church, Matlock shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Matlock shown on a Google Map.
• Streetmap.co.uk (arrow on map shows the Place of Worship's location) (verified 2018-10-15)
• Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13)
• Bing Maps ('Bird's Eye' View) (verified 2018-10-15)
• Ordnance Survey "getamap" (NB some of the 'Change Map' options may require a subscription) (verified 2018-10-15)
• OpenStreetMap (Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA) (verified 2018-10-15)
• A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15)
• www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15)

Resources

I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Matlock, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• “The Andrews Pages”, featuring Ann Andrews' study of Matlock Churches and Chapels (null) (verified 2021-09-12)

The above links were selected and reviewed at the time I prepared the information, but please be aware their content may vary, or disappear entirely. These factors are outside my control.