Church of St Edward the Confessor is a Grade II listed building in the Woking local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1984. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Edward the Confessor
- WRENN ID
- crooked-merlon-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Woking
- Constituency
- Woking MP: Mr Will Forster (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Edward the Confessor, Sutton Park, GU4 7QN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 005 538
- Coordinates
- 51.27451, -0.56041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Edward the Confessor is a church built in 1875 by James Harris in the early English Gothic style. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and has a plain tiled roof. The church features a nave, a south porch, a buttressed apsidal chapel, and a north aisle lady chapel that includes a 20th-century octagonal baptistry on the north side. The exterior has five bays with a corbelled eaves arcade and lancet windows throughout, including three at the west end that are linked by a string course. There is a bell turret at the west end. The south porch is gabled and has a seated statue of Edward the Confessor in a niche above the door, while the south door is planked and fitted with strapwork hinges.
Inside, the church has a three-bay nave arcade supported by round piers with foliage capitals, and the end piers are attached to chamfered responds. The interior includes 19th-century fittings and stained glass designed by Mayer and Co. The baptistry features a drum and stem font, and there is an altar reredos from 1911. Additionally, there are 16th and 17th-century relics displayed in the passage walls leading to the baptistry.
Local climate
Church of St Edward the Confessor sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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