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unusual facts about Holy Trinity Church, Guildford


John Derrick

On Monday, 17 January 1597 (Julian date and thus 1598 by modern reckoning), he bore written testimony as to a parcel of land in the parish of Holy Trinity in Guildford which, originally waste, had been appropriated and enclosed by one John Parvish to serve as a timber yard.


Assessment and Qualifications Alliance

The organisation has several regional offices, the two largest being in Guildford and Manchester.

Berrylands railway station

Normally only Hampton Court Branch trains serve it, but in service disruptions Guildford via Cobham trains make special stops at Berrylands and also New Malden.

Bracknell Bees

Together, the pair set about rebuilding the Bees from the bottom up, bringing back former Bees, Martin Máša, Matt Foord, Shaun Thompson, Carl Graham, Tom Annetts and Brad Watchorn, and adding some players used to competing at the top end of the table, including Guildford captain, Rob Lamey and Slough pair, Michael Bowman and Andy Munroe.

Capel Bond

He left for Coventry in 1749, where he became organist of two large churches, St Michael and All Angels (later Coventry Cathedral), and, in 1752, Holy Trinity Church, Coventry.

Centre for Kentish Studies

Besides holding the usual local authority archives and ecclesiastical parish registers, the numerous other major collections include political and estate papers of the Earls of Guildford, the Stanhope of Chevening papers, and papers of the Talbot and Stuart-Wortley families.

Charles Samuel Brockman

Born in 1845 at Guildford, Western Australia, Charles was the son of Robert James Brockman, one of the earliest pioneers in Western Australia, arriving in 1830.

Chiltern Hills Academy

The Academy, is sponsored by the Diocese of Oxford, Buckinghamshire County Council, Amersham and Wycombe College, Buckinghamshire New University, Pinewood Studios, and the George Abbot Specialist Visual Arts College in Guildford, Surrey

Christopher Matthew

He contributed scripts to the ITV series, The Good Guys with Nigel Havers and Keith Barron, and a stage play, Summoned by Betjeman, starring Robert Daws, was performed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, the Royal Theatre, Northampton, and Clwyd Theatr Cymru.

David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford

Two years later, in 1966, he was elected MP for the safe seat of Guildford in Surrey, for the Conservative Party, a position he retained until retiring at the 1997 general election, on 6 June 1997 he was made a life peer as Baron Howell of Guildford, of Penton Mewsey, in the County of Hampshire.

David Miles Huber

Huber received his degree in music technology from Indiana University (I.M.P.), and was the first American to be admitted into the Tonmeister program at the University of Surrey in Guildford, Surrey, England.

Denzil Onslow

Denzil Roberts Onslow (1839–1908), British Member of Parliament for Guildford, 1874–1885

Disability Challengers

Initially sessions for the children were held at a local leisure centre in Guildford, Surrey, but the need for services quickly grew and in 1984 the charity opened their first custom designed Playcentre on Stoke Park, Guildford.

Dunsfold Aerodrome

It received support from Age Concern Waverley, Guildford Labour Party, Farnham Labour Party, Cranleigh Labour Party and the former Lib Dem MP for Guildford, Sue Doughty.

Elizabeth Diana Percy, Duchess of Northumberland

Her funeral took place at the Old Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Albury Park, Guildford, Surrey, on 1 October 2012.

Forrestfield, Western Australia

Kenworth DAF also relocated from Guildford to a new $10 million complex on Abernethy Road in 2005.

George Nugent

George Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford (1907–1994), British life peer and Member of Parliament for Guildford

George Wyllys

He married Bridget Yonge/Young on 2 November 1609 at the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-on-Avon.

Guildford Black Friary

Guildford Black Friary was a medieval monastic house in Surrey, England.

Harry Cookson

Cookson married Polly Castle at South Shore's Holy Trinity Church on 28 January 1895 and honeymooned later the same day in London.

Hayley Bishop

After leaving The Becket Comprehensive in 1998, Bishop attended Clarendon College before she went on to do a BA HONS in Acting at the Guildford School of Acting.

Heather Douglas

Additional credits include Associate Choreographer for the new musical Beautiful and Damned (Yvonne Arnaud Theater, Guildford); Assistant Director/Choreographer for Copacabana (2003) Denmark and Holland Chess (2002) in Denmark; Associate choreographer for My One and Only in Chichester and London, Calamity Jane the UK Tour and Shaftsbury Theater, London, Il Trovatore in Rotterdam and JFK The Musical in Dublin.

Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge

The ministry of Charles Simeon (1759–1836) started when he was appointed vicar by the Bishop of Ely against the wishes of the churchwardens and congregation at the time who disliked his evangelicalism.

Holy Trinity Church, Colton

A further window is to the memory of Revd John Hull, who died in 1958, and shows four scenes from the Parable of the Good Samaritan.

Holy Trinity Church, Cowes

This rock sculpture was erected in memory of sailors who were killed in the storm which struck the 1979 Fastnet race.

Holy Trinity Church, Halstead

 Bewsey, and three windows in the south aisle of 1931–32 are by A. K. Nicholson.

Holy Trinity Church, Kingswood

It was one of the first churches built from funds voted by Parliament to mark Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, and hence known as a "Waterloo Church".

Holy Trinity Church, Leicester

At each service, the sermons are recorded, and are made available as a podcast or can be downloaded individually from the church website in MP3 audio format.

The Victorian building is situated on Regent Road, to the south of the city centre, close to the University of Leicester, De Montfort University and Leicester Royal Infirmary.

Holy Trinity Church, Skipton

There are monuments in the church dating from the 16th and 17th centuries to the memory of members of the Clifford family.

Hugh Clopton

Clopton's chapel and Clopton Bridge are still notable features of modern Stratford.

Ida C. Ward

Ida Caroline Ward (4 October 1880, Bradford – 10 October 1949, Guildford) was a British linguist working mainly on African languages who did influential work in the domains of phonology and tonology.

Jaguar Mark 1

The Jaguar Mark I gained a certain notoriety when on 22 January 1959 former motor racing world champion Mike Hawthorn died in an accident involving his own highly-tuned 3.4-litre, VDU 881, on the A31 Hog's Back road near Guildford in Surrey, England.

Joseph Nunan

He also built a convent in Perth for the Sisters of Mercy, and a store and house for Walter Padbury near his flour mill in Guildford.

Market Street, Cambridge

Holy Trinity Church, built c1400 in the Perpendicular style, is at the eastern end of the street on the south corner with Sidney Street, another shopping street.

Michael Baughen

After ordination he served as Rector of Holy Trinity Church in Platt Lane, Rusholme, Manchester and All Souls, Langham Place in London before a successful tenure as the 39th Bishop of Chester between 1982 and 1996.

Omid Nooshin

Nooshin was born in Guildford, Surrey, in 1974, the son of Hoshyar Nooshin, Emeritus Professor of Space Structures at Surrey University.

On Orbit Mission Control

The On-Orbit Mission Control (OOMC) will be conducted by the Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) ground site in Guildford, UK.

Peter Henry Lemke

In 1834 he came as missionary to the United States and after being stationed a short time at Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia, he was sent as assistant to the aged and infirm Prince Gallitzin at Loretto, Pennsylvania.

Pilgrims' Way

On modern Ordnance Survey maps, part of the route is shown running east from Farnham, passing to the south of Guildford, north of the village of Gomshall, north of Dorking, Reigate, Merstham, Chaldon, Godstone, Limpsfield and Westerham, through Otford, Kemsing and Wrotham, north of Trottiscliffe, towards Cuxton (where it crossed the River Medway).

Prince Charles of Luxembourg

Born as Prince of Luxembourg, Prince of Nassau, Prince of Bourbon-Parma, he married at St. Edward's, in Sutton Park, Guildford, Surrey, on 1 March 1967 Joan Douglas Dillon (born New York City, New York, 31 January 1935), daughter of U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and wife Phyllis Chess Ellsworth.

Regent's Park tube station

Nearby points of interest are Regent's Park itself, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Physicians, Holy Trinity Church, Portland Place and Harley Street.

Richard Hovannisian

Richard Hovannisian married Vartiter in 1957 at the Holy Trinity Armenian Church of Fresno.

Richard Onslow

Richard Onslow, 3rd Baron Onslow (1715–1776), Member of Parliament for Guildford and Lord Lieutenant of Surrey

Robert Menli Lyon

In June 1833, a meeting was called at Guildford in response to continued calls for punitive action against the Aborigines.

Sarah Tullamore

In 2009 the English version of the show premiered at the Mill Studio, Guildford, UK with additional performances in November 2009 at the Playhouse in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Sir Henry Thompson, 3rd Baronet

Sir Henry was, during his life, Curate in charge at Holy Trinity Church, Bembridge, Isle of Wight; Rector of the Church of Holy Trinity, Fareham, Hampshire (the building of which had been paid for by himself and his mother, Lady Jane Thompson), and in 1845 he was given the living of Frant, Sussex by the Earl of Abergavenny.

Vintage Motor Cycle Club

The Vintage Motor Cycle Club was founded on 28 April 1946, by 38 enthusiasts at the Lounge Cafe, Hog's Back, near Guildford in Surrey, for owners of motorcycles manufactured before December 1930.

William Loton

It was also involved in a number of agricultural and pastoral developments, with extensive property holdings in the north west and also at Perth, Guildford and Northam.


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