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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 ...
Guildford has an Odeon cinema multiplex, which in June 2007 was the first cinema in the world to show digital 4K films to the public. [268] Guildford Civic Hall was the town's main arts and entertainment venue until it closed in January 2004. [269] The Civic Hall was replaced by a new venue, G Live, which opened on the same site in September 2011.
St Lawrence's church is by and large of 1888 but has a chancel of the 14th century and south transept built in 1250. By the 14th century, the main manor house stood on the site of a Regency mansion which is the clubhouse to Effingham Golf Course, then owned by Sir John Poultney , four times Lord Mayor of the City of London [ 2 ] [ 6 ]
Fairlands is the largest settlement (neighbourhood) of Worplesdon, a village with a civil parish council in the Borough of Guildford, Surrey, England.The neighbourhood is centred 2.6 miles (4.2 km) north-west of Guildford, to which it is linked by a relatively straight road.
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 opened in 1885 with seventeen pupils, 11 boarders and 9 day pupils. Miss Susan Burnett was the founding headmistress. [1] The school was founded during a time when various movements within the Church of England and other Christian denominations were pushing for more freedom for women, especially in matters such as participating in services and in education.