There are no strangers here: only friends you have not yet met

W.B. Yates

At All Saints, the door is always open and visitors are welcome to come in. The church is there for pilgrims as well as Lewis Carroll enthusiasts. Some visitors want only a few moments of quiet; others are looking for more information and interpretation.  We are here for you throughout the year and through your life in both the good and challenging times of life’s journey.

Seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

“My first experience of a Daresbury Sunday service took me that one step further in life.

I was an alien but I was welcomed and received. I knew no-one and the congregation didn’t know me. Like many nervous “newbies” on their own I took a service and hymn book and found a place behind a pillar. I wasn’t allowed to stay there though. Week after week, I was gently invited to sit beside not one person but two different Christian families.

I see this now, demonstrates Daresbury’s inclusive ethos.”

The Church and the Lewis Carroll Centre are open daily from 10am until 4pm in winter and 7pm in summer Monday to Saturday. Sundays they will be open after the morning service approximately 12.15pm.

The Lewis Carroll Centre

The Centre, built in the local sandstone and semi-circular in shape, has tall, elegant windows to let in the daylight. Graphic panels explore the family background and life of Lewis Carroll and provides space for schools and interest groups to meet and work. Over the door hangs the mission bell that used to call the canal folk to Revd Dodgson’s floating chapel at Preston Brook. Audio programs include readings from Lewis Carroll’s works by the famous performers Ken Dodd and Dillie Keane.

A small Bookshop sells Lewis Carroll souvenirs (including the Wonderland game), as well as Christian items and booklets on the church’s history and the famous Lewis Carroll window. There are also audio programs to provide the context for a visit to All Saints, where Lewis Carroll was young Charlie Dodgson and his father was the vicar, in the early part of Queen Victoria’s reign.