New Tower and completion of All Saints Church,. Queen's Road, Hertford, Hertfordshire

All Saints Church replaced a mediaeval building destroyed by fire in 1891. The original architects for the rebuilding were Paley, Austin and Paley of Lancaster 1893-1895.  The church was completed and the west tower added in 1904-1905 by Austin and Paley.

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH, HERTFORD - The opening of the completed church of All Saints', Hertford, took place a short time ago. The style is Perpendicular, and the church consists of a nave of five bays 73 ft. long by 26 ft. 6 in, wide, with western tower about 26 ft. square, and north and south aisles 20 ft. and 18 ft. wide respectively, with aisles opening into the tower, in which the font is placed. The chancel is a continuation of the nave and is 42 ft. long by 26 ft. 6 in. wide, here is a south chancel aisle, with separate entrance and porch; and on the north side of the chancel is an organ transept. There are also clergy and choir vestries on the north of the chancel. The nave and chancel are about 40 ft. from floor to wall plate, and have open timber roofs of somewhat low pitch, covered with red tiles. The aisles have roofs covered with lead, and there is a clearstory of double two-light windows running the whole length of the church. The north aisle is lighted by four-light windows, and the south aisle by three-light windows, The flooring of the sanctuary and choir is laid with encaustic tiles, with polished stone borders, while that underneath the seats is of pitch-pine blocks, the passages being laid with Yorkshire flags. The artificial lighting is by gas. The warming is on the low-pressure system and is worked by two boilers. The store used for facing the walls both internally and externally is flecked red Runcorn stone from the quarries at Weston Point, near Runcorn. Cheshire. The work of completing the church has been carried out by Messrs R. Rathbone and Sons, of Atherton, Lancashire, under the direction of Mr T Strong, clerk of the works, Mr. G. Bain, and Mr A. Walsham. The architects were Messrs Paley Austin and Paley, their designs being accepted in competition. The total cost of the scheme, including the portion previously carried out in 1893, was £28,000. [Builder 25 November 1905 page 566]

Reference    Builder 20 February 1904 Page 211 (Contracts)
Reference    Builder 25 November 1905 page 566