All Saints Church, Higher Kinnerton

All Saints Church, Higher Kinnerton

All Saints Church, Higher Kinnerton
Coordinates: 53°08′38″N 3°00′16″W / 53.1439°N 3.0044°W / 53.1439; -3.0044
OS grid reference SJ 329 611
Location Main Road, Higher Kinnerton, Flintshire
Country Wales
Denomination Anglican
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Douglas and Fordham
Architectural type Church
Completed 1893
Specifications
Materials Ruabon brick
Administration
Parish Dodleston
Deanery Chester
Archdeaconry Chester
Diocese Chester
Province York

All Saints Church is in Main Road, Higher Kinnerton, Flintshire, Wales. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the deanery of Chester.[1]

The church was designed by Douglas and Fordham and built in 1893. It is constructed in Ruabon brick. In addition to a central spire, the chancel is carried up into another pyramidal spire.[2]

Construction on an extension to the church building was started in 2007. This has been completed, providing the church with on-site facilities including a small kitchen.

Organ

The church organ was built by Hardy of Stockport, with tonal design by Robert Hope-Jones. It is believed to be the first organ designed by Hope-Jones. The organ initially featured a Tuba Mirabilis, which is an unusual feature for an organ of this small size. The Tuba Mirabilis stop was removed in the 1980s and replaced with an Oboe stop. An unusual feature of Hope-Jones' planned organ design was a Great to Swell 2nd Touch coupler, and a knob for this exists on the console, though it appears to have never been connected.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Churches in the Diocese. Diocese of Chester. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
  2. ↑ Hubbard, Edward (1986). The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd. London: Penguin. p. 371. ISBN 0-14-071052-3.
  3. ↑ Fisher, R: All Saints Church, Higher Kinnerton - Organ, p. 1-2, 2003
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