Editing St Ives, Cambridgeshire (section)

===Parish church===
[[File:cmglee_St_Ives_All_Saints_Parish_Church.jpg|thumb|upright|All Saints parish church]]
The Anglican parish church in St Ives is All Saints Church, located on Church Street, to the west of the present-day town centre. It was founded in AD 970, and it has been a Grade I [[listed building]] since 1951.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1128725|title=CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, St. Ives - 1128725 &#124; Historic England|website=historicengland.org.uk}}</ref>  It was originally the parish church of the settlement of Slepe, before St Ives came into existence. As it stands today, it dates largely from the rebuilding of the late 15th century. It was extensively reordered in the late 19th century by [[Ninian Comper|Sir Ninian Comper]].<ref name = parish>All Saints Parish Church website at https://www.stivesparishchurch.org.uk/ retrieved 7 May 2025</ref>

In 1980 [[John Betjeman]] described it as "Riverine setting, Stately Perpendicular with rich painted [[rood screen]]; [[organ loft|loft]] and organ case on it, all by Comper."<ref name = betjeman115>John Betjeman (editor), ''Collins Guide to Parish Churches of England and Wales'', Collins, London, 1980, ISBN   978-0002161664, page 115</ref> It has the unique, annual custom of Bible Dicing{{what|date=May 2025}} dating from 1679.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event/all-saints-parish-church-st-ives.html|title=All Saints Parish Church, St Ives|website=www.heritageopendays.org.uk}}</ref>

In his 2009 book ''England's Thousand Best Churches'', [[Simon Jenkins]] awards the church one star, saying: "It's glory is its steeple, high, elegant and with a gracefully tapering spire. Like most English spires it has been much rebuilt, most recently in 1918 when an aeroplane knocked it through the nave roof. The view from the south-east is best, with the tower rising above Intersecting tracery."<ref name=Jenkins>{{cite book |last=Jenkins |first=Simon |author-link=Simon Jenkins |title=England's Thousand Best Churches |location=London |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-14-103930-5 |pages=344–345}}</ref>

Of the interior, Jenkins says: "St Ives's font is [[Norman architecture|Norman]], with intersecting arches on attached columns. The blocked [[piscina]] in the south aisle is a gem of [[Early Gothic]], a round dogtoothed arch with two intersecting chamfered arches. There is an admirable [[Charles Eamer Kempe|Kempe]] window in the chancel south wall."<ref name=Jenkins/>