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HAVPCD262 – And I saw a new heaven Music enlightening life’s journey

All Saints’ Parish Church, Kingston’s last remaining Grade One listed building, means something to everyone who lives or works in the Royal Borough. There are few churches with a more fascinating history. For more than a thousand years a church has stood on this site: Egbert, King of Wessex, held his Great Council here in 838, and Athelstan and Ethelred the Unready were two of the seven Saxon Kings of England crowned here in the 10th century. The construction of the present church was begun in 1120 under the orders of Henry I, and has been enlarged and altered throughout its history to give us the building we know today.