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St Martin's Church is an Anglican parish church in Dorking, Surrey. It is a Grade II* listed building and surviving parts of the structure date back to the Middle Ages. It in the archdeaconry of Dorking, in the Diocese of Guildford. The church is the main Anglican parish church in Dorking and was refurbished to the designs of Henry Woodyer. [2]
Dorking expanded greatly in the 19th century, and the large parish of St Martin's Church was divided up as new churches were opened in the south of the town (St Paul, 1857) and at nearby North Holmwood (St John the Evangelist, 1875) [25] and Pixham (St Mary the Virgin, 1903).
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The Archdeaconry of Dorking is a subdivision of the Church of England Diocese of Guildford (itself part of the Province of Canterbury.) The archdeaconry consists of the deaneries of Dorking, Emly, Epsom, Leatherhead, Runnymede and Woking. [1] The archdeaconry of Dorking was split from archdeaconry of Surrey by Order in Council on 17 August 1928 ...
Friends Provident at Pixham End, built in 1957, [4] is the largest employer in Dorking with its insurance, pensions and financial planning UK Head Office [7] in this buffered locality of Dorking. The main land use is residential, the other large businesses being Betchworth Park Golf Course and The Watermill Inn directly to the south and a waste ...
The Ashcombe School was established in 1976, by the merger of Dorking County Grammar School and Mowbray School. [2] The co-educational Dorking County Grammar School had been founded in 1931 with the Amalgamation of the Dorking High School for Boys (1884–1930) [3] and St.Martin's Church Of England High School for Girls opened in 1903.
Martin Breadmore (born 1967) has been the archdeacon of Dorking in the Church of England since November 2019. [1] Breadmore was educated at City of London Freemen's School in Ashtead, Surrey, then London University and ordained in 1994. [2] He served as a curate in Herne Bay from 1993 to 1997, when he moved to St Paul, Camberley.
The district of St Mary, Holmwood, was detached from Dorking and Capel parishes as a separate parish in 1838. The school of the parish of St Mary Magdalen, Holmwood, was built in 1844 and enlarged in 1870 and 1884. The village prospered from the increased traffic and from the presence of large country houses such as Anstie Grange and Holmwood Park.