Heritage Open Day: Come and visit Guildford United Reformed Church, the building of which was completed in 1965. See the unusual octagonal shaped sanctuary with its lantern of stained glass, and the organ which was enlarged and moved to the present building when opened The church moved to its present site from a huge Victorian building right in the centre of Guildford on North Street. The site had previously been a doctor’s family house and surgery with a good sized garden but limited frontage width. To cope with this the architect created an octagonal sanctuary within and rising from a larger octagon containing rooms for church activities.
The sanctuary is lit by windows of coloured glass at roof level above the surrounding rooms.