2014
TQ0247 : St Thomas's Church, Chilworth
taken 9 years ago, near to Chilworth, Surrey, England
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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