Hambledon Church

Hambledon Church
51°8′31.4″N 0°36′51.6″W
Location	Hambledon, Surrey
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Church of England
Website	www.bhcgodalming.org
History
Former name(s)	St Peter's Church
Founded	Before 1290AD
Architecture
Style	Tractarian mid-Victorian
Years built	Rebuilt 1846AD by Rev E Bullock
Administration
Diocese	Guildford
Episcopal area	Guildford (Bishop of Guildford)
Archdeaconry	Surrey
Deanery	Godalming
Parish	Busbridge and Hambledon
Clergy
Rector	Simon Taylor
Vicar(s)	Simon Willetts (Associate Vicar), Margot Spencer, Andy Spencer, David Jenkins
Curate(s)	Patrick Samuels

Hambledon Church as it is known locally (historically known as St Peters) is an evangelical Anglican Church in Hambledon, Surrey, United Kingdom. Hambledon Church is part of a parish with Busbridge Church[1] connected to the large village or small town of Godalming, Surrey. Together Busbridge and Hambledon Church have six Sunday congregations ranging from traditional to modern and contemporary services.[2] The Patrons are the Martyrs Memorial and the Church of England Charitable Trust.

History

Hambledon Church was founded by Ranaulf Flambard before 1086. There are detailed records of Christian worship taking place on the site since before the 14th century. A roll of Rectors on the West wall of the church records Rectors from 1301 to the present Rector (2010) and vicar with special responsibility in the village (2012).[3]

The half-county of the West of Surrey was originally in the Diocese of Winchester but benefitted from closer connections to its charitable and spiritual senior leaders on the establishment in the early 20th century of a more local cathedral and clergy on establishment of the Diocese of Guildford.

Architecture

The building has a tall square, wood-shingled bell-cot at the western end with double louvred-windows to either side. It has a pyramidal roof over the bellcote topped by a ball and a weathervane finial. Buttressing supports the west end with a quatrefoil roundel window over two lancet windows below, all with linked hood moulds. One 'decorated style' two-light window and one plate tracery window to south side also has mouldings above. There are also gabled offset buttress between lancet north chapel windows underneath mouldings with sill bands and string courses linking windows with the buttresses and the building has a cornice (band of prominent stone beneath the roof). Much of this ornamentation was added in 1846 and the building is listed in the initial architectural protected status category of Grade II.[3]

Sunday Services

10:00am Morning Worship Service

A popular service with hymns led by an organist.[4] Holy Communion is offered on the second and fifth Sunday of each month.[5]

4:00pm Messy Church

On third Sundays there is an all age service with Messy Church activities, craft and worship at Hambledon Village Hall.

See also

References

1. Joint Benefice with Hambledon Church Archived 2010-11-09 at the Wayback Machine, Hambledon Village website.
2. Service times and congregations Archived 7 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Busbridge Church.
3. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1261112)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
4. The 9:00am Heritage Service Archived 2012-09-13 at the Wayback Machine, Busbridge and Hambledon Church website.
5. 11:am Contemporary Service Archived 2013-04-14 at archive.today, Busbridge and Hambledon Church website.

External links

• Busbridge and Hambledon Church Website