All Saints Church is the historic parish church of Kingston upon Thames in southwest London, and is set between the ancient Market Place and the main shopping centre. It forms part of the Diocese of Southwark and with the church of St John, and St John the Divine, it forms a team of Anglican churches serving residents, businesses, schools and Kingston University. The church is the only Grade I listed building (but not structure) in Kingston.

A church at Kingston sprang up in Saxon times and Egbert, king of Wessex, held his great council at the site in 838. Seven Saxon kings of England, including Æthelstan and Æthelred the Unready, were crowned here in the 10th century. The present church was begun in 1120 under the orders of Henry I and has been developed since then. It is a cruciform church with a central tower and a four-bay nave, with Perpendicular clerestory, choir, north and south aisles, transepts and chapels. The exterior is of flint with stone dressings and a parapet of stone battlements.^[1][2]

Edward the Elder was crowned in Kingston in 900 at the Coronation Stone, as was his son Athelstan in 925. In the following years Kingston was the site of the consecrations of Edmund I in 940, Eadred in 946, Eadwig in 955, Edward the Martyr in 975 and, finally, Ethelred, who was crowned by Bishop Oswald of Worcester in 978.

Outside the south door of the present building are some outlines marked by stones, which are all that remain of the Saxon church and chapel of St Mary. The present church was begun in 1120 under the orders of Henry I and has been developed since then. During the 14th century, the Norman nave was widened. The chancel and the chapels of the Holy Trinity to the north and St James to the south were added during the 15th century. The original high wooden spire on top of the tower was struck by lightning and almost entirely destroyed in 1445 and was rebuilt in 1505. In 1600, the church was described at vestry meeting as being "much out of repair and there being a need for a speedy repair of the same in several places ... to prevent further damages and inconvenience." The tower was taken down to the level of the nave and was strengthened and rebuilt in 1708 in brick, with dipped parapet and pineapple ornaments on the corners.^[1] The chapel of St. Mary, which stood at the south-east of the church, next to the south chapel of St. James, was pulled down in 1730 after some of the walls fell, killing the sexton.^[3]

The church was much restored in the 19th century, by Brandon from 1862 to 1866 and Pearson in 1883.^[1] A 12th-century doorway was discovered in the west wall of the nave in about 1865 but destroyed. Ceilings were reconstructed and the organ gallery at the west end was removed. In the 1890s, remaining galleries were removed and new roofs provided to the nave, aisles and transepts.^[3] After the First World War, the choir vestry was built on the north wall and a memorial chapel dedicated to the East Surrey Regiment. The same regiment also has a set of memorial gates at the south entrance to the churchyard, on Market Place (the regiment's badge appears over them). The gates were formally opened on Remembrance Sunday 1924 by the Bishop of Kingston, Percy Herbert.^[4] The gates became a separate Grade II listed building in April 2016; the church is Grade I listed.^[5]

Stained glass

The church contains twenty stained glass windows, mostly belonging to the Victorian Gothic Revival period, the earliest dating from 1852. Five were designed by Nathaniel Westlake for Lavers and Barraud; Nathaniel Lavers (1828-1911) lived in Long Ditton and donated one of the windows. Other windows in the south transept and the south wall of the nave are by Burlison and Grylls and date from Pearson's restoration of the 1880s.^[17]

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Location	By	Date	Photograph	Description	Notes	Ref
South aisle east window	Possibly Ward and Nixon	1852		Christ and the four Evangelists.	Dedicated to the vicar Samuel Gandy (d 1851)
East window	Henry Hughes of Ward and Hughes	1860		Scenes from the life of Christ, with the Crucifixion in the centre
Chancel south wall eastern window	William Wailes	1861		The angels announcing the birth of Jesus to the shepherds.	Donated by William Mercer in memory of his four daughters	[18]
South aisle central window	Burlison and Grylls	1886		St Peter and the Centurion Cornelius.	In memory of Major William Anthony Grey-Smith, (1849-1886) 70th and East Surrey Regiments.
Holy Trinity Chapel, East window	Nathaniel Westlake for Lavers and Barraud	1860		Scenes from the Old Testament: Abel's sacrifice, Noah, Crossing the Red Sea, Jacob blessing the sons of Joseph.	In memory of George Reynell (1785-1859)	[19]
Holy Trinity Chapel, eastern window on north wall	Christopher Webb	1953		St Michael slaying the dragon. Arms of the East Surrey Regiment, Ireland, the Longley family, and a Jerusalem cross.	In memory of Major General Sir John Raynsford Longley and his son Charles who was killed at the Battle of Jutland (1916).
Holy Trinity Chapel, western window on north wall	Christopher Webb	1928		St George slaying the dragon, Arms of the East Surrey Regiment, England, the Pearse family, and Scotland.	In memory of Col. Hugh Wodehouse Pearse DSO.
North aisle eastern window	Lowndes and Drury	1956		Four roundels and other pieces of 15th & 16th century glass from the Thomas and Drake collection
North aisle west wall window	Nathaniel Westlake for Lavers and Barraud	1866		The three Maries at the Tomb.	In memory of Charles Octavius Parnell	[20]
North aisle western window	Lowndes and Drury	1956		Arms of King's College, Cambridge and Henry VI. Arms attributed to the Saxon king Edward the Elder, son of Alfred the Great, crowned at Kingston. The arms of Merton Abbey, Patrons of the living from All Saints’
North clerestory window	Lavers and Barraud	1860		St Andrew, St Peter, St James.		[21]
South aisle eastern window	Burlison and Grylls	1887		Martha and Mary
South aisle western window	Burlison and Grylls	1920		St Michael and the dragon, angels with trumpets	In memory of Lieut. Col Francis Richard Pennefather Kane (1854-1920), East Surrey Regiment.
South clerestory window	Lavers and Barraud	1860		Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel
South transept west aisle window	Burlison and Grylls	1887		"Nunc Dimittris", the song of Simeon, presentation of Jesus in the Temple. Mary, Simeon with Jesus, Anna.	In memory of Robert Thomas Kent and Abiah Kent.
South transept window	Burlison and Grylls	1886		The "Magnificat", the annunciation.	In memory of John Shrubsole.
South wall chancel western window	Nathaniel Westlake for Lavers and Barraud	1861		Scenes from the life of Abraham		[22]
Vicar's burial ground east window	Nathaniel Westlake for Lavers and Barraud	1860		Jesus healing of a woman with issue of blood, with Martha and Mary, raising Jairus' daughter.	Given by Lavers in memory of his father and sister.
South aisle west wall window	Nathaniel Westlake for Lavers and Barraud	1880		Jesus with his disciples and children.	In memory of Henry Shrubsole.
West window	Possibly designed by John Milner Allen for Lavers and Barraud	1863		Christ in Majesty, surrounded by the apostles, with 24 elders from the book of Revelation.	In memory of William and Susannah Wilhelmina Sandford.	[23]

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• Memorial gates
• Chancel
• Philip Medows monument by John Flaxman
• Davidson memorial by Charles Regnart
• Henry Davidson memorial by John Ternouth

• All Saints Church
• Holy Trinity Chapel
• Countess of Liverpool memorial
• Sir Anthony Benn monument
• Carved angel