All Saints Church

All Saints' Anglican Church on Margaret Street in London. The building is on the list of first-class monuments, and was built in the years 1850 - 1859. Designed by the English architect William Butterfield, he was hailed as his masterpiece, while becoming a precursor to the high Victorian Gothic style popular in Great Britain.

In the place of the present church there once stood the Chapel of Saint Margaret serving parishioners from 1760. The last mass was held on Easter Monday in 1850, and the foundation stone of the new temple was erected the same year on All Saints' Day.

All Saints Church is an architectural gem, an innovative thought introduced by Butterfield. Built of brick, unlike its Gothic predecessors, raised its rank as a building material and a work of art: the intricate mosaic outside the church is entirely made of this raw material and built into the structure of the building, making All Saints also the first example of "structural polychrome" in London.