KINGSTON NATIONAL SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
First opened on April 27th 1927
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In April 1927 a foundation stone was laid by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) at the Kingston National Spiritualist Church.
A picture is shown above. The stone can be seen to the right of the church front entrance.
Arthur Conan Doyle was born at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, as the son of Charles Altamont Doyle, a civil servant in the Edinburgh Office of Works, and Mary (Foley) Doyle. Both of Doyle's parents were Roman Catholics. To increase his income Charles Altamont painted, made book illustrations, and also worked as a sketch artist on criminal trials. Not long after arriving in Edinburgh he started to drink, he suffered from epilepsy and was eventually institutionalised. Richard Doyle (1824-83), the uncle of A.C. Doyle and the son of the caricaturist John Doyle, was also an illustrator. He worked for Punch and illustrated chiefly fairy stories, including Ruskin's The King of the Golden River, W. Allingham's In Fairyland and some of Dickens's Christmas Books.
Sir Arthur began his mission in 1918, with visits to most of the major cities of Great Britain. Then, during 1920 and 1921, he visited Australia and New Zealand. Early in 1922, he went to America and toured the Eastern states; the following year, he travelled as far as California. In 1928, he left for South Africa, and in the autumn of that same year, he preached Spiritualism in the Northern countries of Europe. Doyle died on July 7th, 1930 from heart disease at his home in Windlesham, Sussex.
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