All Saints' Church, Falmouth is a parish church

Parish church

A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....

 in the Church of England

Church of England

The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...

 located in Falmouth, Cornwall

Falmouth, Cornwall

Falmouth is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,635.Falmouth is the terminus of the A39, which begins some 200 miles away in Bath, Somerset....

, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

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History

The foundation stone for this church was laid by the Duke of Cornwall

Duke of Cornwall

The Duchy of Cornwall was the first duchy created in the peerage of England.The present Duke of Cornwall is The Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II, the reigning British monarch .-History:...

 in 1887. It was designed by the architect J. D. Sedding

J. D. Sedding

John Dando Sedding was a noted Victorian church architect, working on new buildings and repair work, with an interest in a ‘crafted Gothic’ style. He was an influential figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, many of whose leading designers studied in his offices...

 in the Gothic Revival style. The aisles are narrow and there is a large east window of five lancets.

The church was consecrated on 17 April 1890 by the Bishop of Barbados

Bishop of Barbados

The Anglican diocese of Barbados was set up in 1824, as one of two covering the whole Caribbean. Before that, the area was nominally under the charge of the Bishop of London, a situation that had been assumed to hold from 1660 onwards...

, the Rt Revd Herbert Bree

Herbert Bree

The Rt Rev Herbert Bree, DD was a Colonial Anglican Bishop from 1882 until 1899.Born in 1828, Herbert Bree was educated in Bury St Edmunds and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1852. After curacies in Suffolk he held incumbencies at Harkstead and Brampton before...

, in place of the Bishop of Truro

Bishop of Truro

The Bishop of Truro is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Truro in the Province of Canterbury.The present diocese covers the county of Cornwall and it is one of the most recently created dioceses of the Church of England...

, Dr Wilkinson, who was ill.

List of vicars

• Thomas Taylor
  Thomas Taylor (historian)
  Rev. Thomas Taylor was a priest, historian and scholar of Celtic culture.-Life and career:Taylor was born in Thurvaston, Derbyshire, England. He attended King Edward VI School, Macclesfield becoming head boy in 1874. He matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1877, and graduated in...
  
   1890 - 1892 (first vicar of newly created parish)
• Canon C. W. G. Wood 1924 - 1963
• R. L. Ravenscroft 1964 - 1968
• Donald Young 1969 - 1970
• Peter Eustice 1971 - 1976
• Prebendary E. Stark 1977 - 1981
• A. Stone 1981 - 1983
• Peter Watts 1984 - 1994
• James Scantlebury 1994 - 1998
• Stephen Drakeley 1999 to date

Organ

The pipe organ was built by Hele & Co of Plymouth in 1887.

A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

List of organists

• F. B. Rogers fl. 1921
• John Clarke ca. 1980 - 1992
• Andrew Jenkins 1992 - 95/96?
• Roger King 1996–Present