Historic Churches in Surrey

A fascinating historic church within Albury Park, St Peter and St Paul's dates to the Saxon period. The most immediately striking feature is a peculiar shingled dome set atop an embattled central tower.
Albury, Surrey, England, GU5 9BH

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Heritage Highlight: Wonderfully decorated Drummond Chapel
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St Martin's is a superb example of a late 19th-century Arts and Crafts style church modelled on an Italian wayside chapel. The interior is decorated with wonderful murals by artist Anna Lea Merritt depicting scenes from the life of Christ.
Blackheath Lane, Blackheath, Surrey, England, GU4 8RA

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Heritage Highlight: Ars and Crafts style wall paintings
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A wonderful early Norman church with a stunning early 18th-century monument to Sir Robert Clayton and the table tomb of Sir Thomas Cawarden (d. 1559), Master of the Revels under four Tudor monarchs. There are 15th and 16th-century brasses in the north aisle and the remains of a hermit's cell in the south chancel wall.
High Street, Church Lane, Bletchingley, Surrey, England, RH1 4PD

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Heritage Highlight: Ornate Clayton monument (1705)
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This small Norman church boasts one of the earliest and most complete wall paintings in England, created around AD 1200 and taking up most of the west wall. A 15th-century Easter Sepulchre stands in the chancel.
Church Lane, Chaldon, Surrey, England, CR3 5AL

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Heritage Highlight: Superb early 13th century wall paintings
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A rare Tudor church, built at the height of the Reformation in 1540, on the site of an early medieval church. In 1725 the south transept was added to form a family pew for the Duke of Newcastle, then resident at the Claremont estate nearby.
Esher Park Avenue, Esher, Surrey, England, KT10 9PX

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An unspoilt Norman church in an idyllic rural location. St Mary's dates to 1090, and though the chancel was extended in the 13th century and a porch added in the 16th, the building is essentially unaltered. There is a 15th-century brass to a London merchant and a marble 18th-century wall monument.
Farleigh Court Road, Farleigh, Surrey, England, CR6 9PX

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Heritage Highlight: 15th-century Brook memorial brass
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A fascinating early Norman survivor in the midst of urban Surrey, Lumley Chapel is all that remains of an 11th-century church. The chapel was built by Lord John Lumley in the late 16th century as a family mortuary chapel.
St Dunstan's Church, Church Road, Cheam, Surrey, England

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One of the most impressive and attractive churches in Surrey, set in a picturesque position beside the River Tillingbourne in one of England's most beautiful villages. There are remains of a 14th-century anchoress's cell in the north chancel wall and fine 15th-century memorial brasses.
Shere, Surrey, England, GU5 9HG

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A late Saxon church rebuilt in the Norman period, with a 13th-century painted wooden panel in the chancel, beautifully carved family pews for the Onslows of nearby Clandon Park, and a 12th-century Sussex marble font.
The Street, West Clandon, Surrey, England, GU4 7RG

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Heritage Highlight: 13th-century painted wooden panels
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St John's church stands in an idyllic rural setting looking over the North Downs. The church dates to Saxon times, though most of the current building is Norman, heavily restored in the Victorian period. Off the north side of the chancel is the Evelyn Chapel, where diarist John Evelyn is buried with other members of his family.
Church Lane, St John's Church Road, Wotton, Surrey, England, RH5 6QQ

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Heritage Highlight: 17th century Evelyn Chapel and John Evelyn memorial
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