All Saints’

• Sunday, 08:00 — Holy Eucharist (said)
• Sunday, 10:30 — Holy Eucharist with choir
• Wednesday, 10:00 — Holy Eucharist (said), followed by refreshments

All Saints’ Church,
Park Road,
Barry CF62 6NU

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The Parish Church of All Saints, Barry

The Church of All Saints was built in 1907–08 as a response to the rapidly increasing population of Barry at that time, succeeding St Nicholas’ as the Parish Church. It was consecrated by the Bishop of Llandaff on 29 April 1908. [NCT page] and designated the Parish Church in 1919. It is an imposing building and its clock tower dominates the Barry skyline from many angles. The view from the top of the tower is quite breathtaking and well worth a look if you ever get the chance and you have a head for heights.

The churchpersonship of the parish is what Anglicans would describe as “middle of the road” with an emphasis on traditional Anglican worship.  The community of All Saints is tangible with a variety of societies and committees based at the Church each with its own busy schedule.  Please see our societies page for a full list and for further information about their forthcoming events.

All Saints’ benefits from a large congregation but there’s always room for more and a warm welcome awaits new members and visitors alike.

Pre-CoViD, our Sunday morning service had a Sunday School in the hall during term time which children aged between 3 and 16 were most welcome to attend. We hope and pray for the time to come soon when we can offer this again.

All of our team minister at each of the four churches, but Canon Zoë has special responsibility for All Saints’.

For 2025/26, All Saints’ subwarden is Jill Osborne and their MAC rep is Lucy Sullivan.

Rectors of Barry

• c. 1254: Thomas, Rector of Barry
• From the mid-14th century onwards, Barry was part of Porthkerry parish, and St Nicholas’ was often called a chapel
• c. 1400: William Gowrda
• 1401: Thomas Gosselyn
• c. 1480: John Thomas
• c. 1561: William Wilkynes
• 1570: Thomas Wilkin
• 1623: John Wilson
• 1660: Whitegift Gibbon
• 1671: David Thomas
• From 1674 until 1839, Barry was separate from Porthkerry. Many of the rectors of this period were absentees, leaving the parish to curates
• 1674: Evan Howel
• 1716: Richard Hancorne (later Rector of Sully)
• 1732: Edward Howell
• 1746: Jeffrey Beynon (also curate of Cadoxton and of Merthyr Dyfan; resident at Cwmbarry)
• 1765: Henry Jones (also Vicar of Penmark from 1783)
• 1784: Michael Vrankin
• 1792: Thomas Hancorne (also Vicar of Newcastle and Rector of Michaelston-le-Pit)
• 1838: Paul Ashmore (also Rector of Porthkerry)
• From 1839 until 1972, Barry and Porthkerry were united again
• 1865–1898: Edmund Edward Allen, Rector of Porthkerry and Barry (Rural Dean since 1890 and honorary Canon [prebend of Fairwell]), died in post on 2 April 1898
• 14 July 1898 – 1914: Henry Holmes Stewart (Rector of Porthkerry and Barry; moved to Park Road c. 1905)
• 1914–1937: Thomas William Welch
• In 1914, Aubrey Daunton was Rector of Barry
• 13 September 1937 – 1958: William Nicholas Peregrine, Rector of Barry with Porthkerry (retired to Penarth and died 24 June 1971, aged 83)
• 10 September 1958 – 1968: John Alun Jeffreys-Jones, Rector of Barry with Porthkerry (died in post, 18 June 1968)
• 1968–1985: William David Davies, Rector of Porthkerry with Barry (until 1972), Rector of Barry (from 1972), Rural Dean of Penarth and Barry (1975–85) and Canon of Llandaff Cathedral (1982–85; died 27 February 2008, aged 88)
• 1986–2008 (retired): John Gerard David Oeppen
• 2009– 2 February 2014 (retired): Adrian Charles Berry (also canon residentiary of the cathedral)
• 2015–2016: Kevin William Lake, Priest-in-Charge of All Saints and St John with St Baruc, Barry (became a Vicar in the Benefice of Barry)

Vicars at All Saints’ in the Rectorial Benefice of Barry (called Barry Ministry Area)

• 2016–2020 (retired): Kevin Lake (Team Vicar)
• 2021–present: Zoë King (Ministry Area Leader; Canon since 2022)

Some assistant clergy of the old Parish of Barry

• 1730–1734: S. Richards
• 1770: James Thomas
• 1773: Rowland Jay
• 1774–1779: William Powell
• 1781–1798: Hezekiah Jones (possibly also of Cadoxton, and called “Yr offeiriad coch y Golcoed”; he was involved in the Temperance movement and became a Calvinistic Methodist)
• 1804–1808: Robert Peter
• 1812: David Thomas
• 1813–1814: Thomas Price
• 1816: Thomas Davies, jnr
• 1820–1839: D. Thomas
• 1885 or 1886: John (or I.) Price
• 1891–1895: John Le Geyt Du Heaume (later Rector of Bonvilstone, 1906)
• 1895–1898: Thomas Vaughan Evans
• In 1899: J. Miles (maybe a mistake for Ernest LL.)
• 1899–1903: Ernest LLewellyn Miles, later incumbent of West Crimstead
• 1899–1903: Nathaniel Rees, became curate of Cilfynydd
• 1905: A. D. Longh
• In 1906, Lemuel James was Assistant Curate of Barry
• 1904–1908 or 1910: Ronald W. Lockyer
• 1911–1914: T. W. Welch
• 1912–1914: M. E. Thomas
• 1913–1923: A. D. Collier (formerly curate of St Matthew’s, Pontypridd) was curate-in-charge of Barry Island (which was perhaps still in Sully parish)
• 1914–1918: J. C. K. Buckley
• 1918–1920: G. A. Carne Williams
• 1920–1922: J. R. Sutherland
• 1922–1930: Edward Fowler was Curate of Porthkerry
• 1930: Kenneth N. Evans
• 1934: D. Noel Thomas
• 1937 – February 1946: E. Picton-Thomas, became incumbent of Llancarfan
• 19 May 1946 – 1958: Norman Haddock, became Vicar of St Luke Cheltenham
• 1946–1951: James Matthews-Payne (ordained 1946; died 2005)
• ?–1957: J. S. Rose was curate-in-charge of Barry Island; became Rector of Vaynor with Taffechan, Merthyr Tydfil
• 1957–1959: Herbert Lewis Clarke (died 8 April 2003) was curate-in-charge of Barry Island conventional district (possibly in Sully parish), became Warden of St Michael’s College, LLandaff
• Until 1959, A. S. Caswell was assistant curate
• 1959–1967: Denis Butler Bevan (ordained 1954; died 2001)
• 1959–1966: John Alfred Fielding-Fox (died 3 November 1991) curate-in-charge of Barry Island conventional district (possibly Sully parish), became Vicar of Hammerwich
• 1968–1971: Peter Graham Cobb (ordained 1968, retired 1995, died 2025)
• ?–1974: J. H. S. Thomas, curate-in-charge of Barry Island CD (possibly Sully parish), became vicar of Dinas and Penygraig
• 1971–1975: Brian Evans (ordained 1971, retired 1999)
• 1976–1979: Christopher Fry (ordained 1974, died 1994)
• 1976–1983: Benjamin John Evans JP (ordained 1976, died 2003)
• 1988–1990: Richard Hugh Spencer
• 1991–1993: Ronald Glyn Austin (ordained 1990, retired 2020)
• 1993–1995: Gary Millar (ordained 1991, now Rector of Kilrea et al., County Derry)
• 1996–2001: Christopher Robin Lewis-Jenkins
• 1997–2001: Paul Noble Thompson (honorary curate, ordained 1980, retired 2020)
• 2000–2003: Ian Kendall Rees (ordained 2000, now Archdeacon of Monmouth)
• 2003–2005: Paul Boyle
• 2006–2009: Julie Ann Louise Baker (ordained 2006, now Rector of Darlington-Bellevue, Australia)
• 2011–2015: Emma Louise Rees-Kenny (ordained 2011, now Ministry Area Leader of Caerphilly)