139:. Work resumed in July and was sufficiently complete by October the following year (1933) for an opening ceremony. The first priest, the Revd Roderick Davies, furnished the interior through generous donations. All Saints Maidstone was dedicated with the prayer used in 1395 at the dedication of All Saints Maidstone in Kent. All Saints fell under the Parish of
132:, from Edward Saunders, owner of the Tongaat Sugar Estate. In granting the petition one of the company's stipulations was that the building had to have a tiled roof and the walls were to be a least nine inches thick. The directors of the company also reserved the right to intervene should the grounds or buildings not remain in a state of proper repair.
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In 1930, thirty-eight members of the sugar mill staff signed a petition asking for a central church to be built. They argued that a church would have a good moral and social influence on the community and would be a welcome addition to the district's architecture. The petition was granted by the
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As the Parish of
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All Saints faced closure in 2003 with the congregation having dwindled to about ten regular members. The church was no longer able to afford a stipendiary priest and was given a year to reverse the slide. Consequently, All Saints was linked with the parish of
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However various rectors of St Thomas
Verulam, resided in the vicarage alongside All Saints' church in Maidstone, for a number of years, notwithstanding the fact that the parish was still officially designated
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to investigate parish boundaries. There were two problematic parishes on the north coast, namely
Verulam and Stanger, with the boundary between the two running through the future town of Ballitoville (now
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In the ensuing years stained-glass windows and plaques were added in memory of some of the families who helped establish the church. Seventy teak chairs were replaced with nineteen pews made of
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Merrington, P. (1998). "Heritage, Pageantry and
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191:. All Saints fell under St Thomas Verulam along with St Catherine Mt Edgecombe. The commission suggested that All Saints Maidstone and
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Thereafter the following priests were in residence at Parish of
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The following clergy were incumbents, vicars, rectors or priests-in-charge of the Parish of
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in the UK. It was a model village built exclusively for the white community who worked for the
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Tongaat Sugar
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