All Saints Parish Church
All Saints Parish Church is a historic stone chapel standing in the middle of scenic grounds over looking the River Great Ouse. The earliest recorded mention of the Parish Church of St Ives is in the Domesday Book, AD 1086, when it is stated that there was here a “priest and a church”. An old manuscript has the following note: “970 AD in the twelfth year of Edgar, surnamed Peaceful, Adnothus, Abbot of Ramsey, built St Ives Church, and dedicated to All Saints.” This original church would be small and probably of wood. About 1470 an entire rebuilding took place. The north chapel, the nave with its arcade and clerestory, the porches, and the side aisles were rebuilt; the chancel walls were raised to their present height and new windows inserted; and the tower with its spire was probably newly added to the church and the aisles extended to its western face. The church, therefore, now presents itself as chiefly of fifteenth-century date. (St.Ives, England)
