This Church has had a complicated history, spread across two sites.

The site of All Saints' Church, corner of High Street and Best Lane (Churchyard behind railings)

The Medieval Church was the venue for a musical fanfare in 1616, to greet the visit to Canterbury of King James I, and his son Charles. With the coming of coaches in the 18th century, the tower was demolished, as it stuck out into the thoroughfare.

"High Street, 1827", by Thomas Sidney Cooper. The "Coach and Horses" is now the site of Canterbury Library

A new, yellow-brick, Regency Church was constructed on the same site in 1828. The Church closed in 1902, when the parish was amalgamated with that of St Alphege. The Church was used as a hall until about 1937, when it was demolished. The small Churchyard, however, remains, and is open for public use during daylight hours.

Canterbury still has an All Saints' Church, however. Canterbury Garrison Church was constructed in the 1840s, as part of Northgate Barracks, at the top of Military Road. With the sale of nearby St Gregory's Church to Christchurch College in 1974, the Garrison Church was purchased, and renamed All Saints' Church.

Records at Cathedral Archives

Garrison Church

Copies at the Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone

Site updated 27th October 2008