2014

TQ0247 : St Thomas's Church, Chilworth

taken 9 years ago, near to Chilworth, Surrey, England

St Thomas's Church, Chilworth
St Thomas's Church, Chilworth
A most unusual little building, curiously domestic in scale. The Arts & Crafts influence is unmistakable, and there'd be no difficulty in guessing at a date of about 1900. I was reminded of TQ1777 : Former Boatmen's Institute, Brentford but also of TQ2378 : Voysey's Studio, St Dunstan's Road and I might have guessed that the architect was indeed Voysey.

Ian Nairn, writing in the Surrey Pevsner ('The Buildings of England: Surrey') gives the architect's name as WH Seth-Smith, and the date as 1896. At what date the building became a church is not clear, as it started life as the Greshambury Institute - which sounds like one of the adult-education foundations that flourished in Surrey at that time.

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TQ0247, 228 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Stefan Czapski   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 19 October, 2014   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 19 October, 2014
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 0213 4708 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:12.8280N 0:32.3512W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 0214 4705
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North-northwest (about 337 degrees)
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