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St Dunstan's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Woking, Surrey. At first it was built in 1899, replaced by a larger church in 1923 and its final form was built in 2008. The church was dedicated that year by the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. It is set back in its own plot from Shaftesbury and ...
Brethren have a long history in the Woking area: the Victoria County History of Surrey (1911) records "a meeting-place of the Plymouth Brethren" in Woking parish. A new meeting room was built on Goldsworth Road near the town centre and was registered in February 1986, but it has since closed and become the Al-Asr Educational and Community ...
Parish: Parish of St Peter Woking: Clergy; Vicar(s) Jonathan Thomas [1] St Mark's Church is located in Westfield, Woking, England. The church is in the Parish of the ...
The canal was also influential in the growth of the community. Due to the inconvenience of travelling to the nearest parish church (St Peter's in Old Woking), the vicar of St Peter's, Rev'd Charles Bowles, amassed £1,500 in order to serve the western end of the parish of St Peter's, i.e. the new community now known as 'St Johns'. [2]
St Mary of Bethany Church was founded to service the expanding town of Woking in Surrey. The Rev William Hamilton the vicar of Christ Church Woking saw a need for the expanding town south of the railway. Three plots of land between Mount Hermon Road and York Road were purchased in 1899 when the farmland was offered for development.
A list of Catholic churches in the United Kingdom, notable current and former individual church buildings and congregations and administration.These churches are listed buildings or have been recognised for their historical importance, or are church congregations notable for reasons unrelated to their buildings.
St Dunstan's Catholic Church in Woking holds masses in Italian. The Italian population in Woking, including second- and third-generation members, numbers between two and three thousand. [161] There is a large Pakistani population in Woking, centred on Maybury and Sheerwater. [162]
The church is a Grade I listed building, within the Old Woking Conservation Area. St Peter's was originally the parish church of Woking prior to the development of a new urban area, now called Woking, centered on the railway station. The village of Woking subsequently became known as Old Woking.