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St Catherine's Chapel on top of St Catherine's Hill. St Catherine's Hill is a hill south of Guildford in Surrey, England, with a ruined chapel on its top. The hill is about half a mile south of Guildford on the way to Godalming, near the village of Artington and the River Wey. [1] The village is on a sandstone outcrop near the Pilgrims' Way, at ...
Artington is a village and civil parish in the borough of Guildford, Surrey, England.It covers the area from the southern edge of the built-up centre of Guildford and steep Guildown, [2] the start of the Hog's Back and part of the North Downs AONB, to New Pond Farm by Godalming and the edge of Peasmarsh.
In 1860 St Joseph's Church was built; it was replaced by a larger church on a different site in 1984. The west of Guildford is served by St Mary's Catholic Church, which dates from 1964 but whose origins lie in a Mass centre opened at Rydes Hill Preparatory School, a Catholic private school. The suburbs of Burpham and Merrow gained Catholic ...
English: St Catherine's Hill, Guildford St Catherine's Hill on the western bank of the River Wey is formed out of the yellow-brown sandstone of the Folkestone Sands. These were deposited around 100 million years ago.
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English: St Catherine's Chapel, Guildford. Sitting on the hill on the west bank of the Wey, the chapel is beside the site of the old St Catherine's Fair. It is also on the Pilgrim's Way, the supposed long distance mediaeval path between Winchester and Canterbury.
St Catherine's School was established in 1885, and has grown to have a significant physical presence in the village. Building of the Chapel began in 1893 and it was dedicated in the following year. It is a notable example of the work of Charles Eamer Kempe, who was responsible for much of the interior decoration, especially the stained glass ...