ENCORE! All Saints’ Church, All Saints’ Road

A Grade 1 listed building designed by John Middleton, begun in 1865.

It has rich furnishings and a William Hill organ, although a planned tall spire was never built. The south transept rose window follows an Edward Burne-Jones design and was made in 1901 by the William Morris Company.

Gustav’s father Adolph, who helped to design the organ, was the church’s first organist, performing the role from 1866 to 1894, and he and Clara Lediard, one of his piano pupils, were married here in 1871. Their children Gustav (b.1874) and his brother Emil (b. 1876) were baptised here.

Gustav also played the organ here, and also violin and trombone in small orchestras formed for special occasions.

The church has also hosted musical concerts organised by the Holst Birthplace Trust.