Category Archives: Surrey

The memorial panels are rather curiously positioned, this being the 1939-45 panel that greets us at the front of the memorial,… …beneath which the upper step is inscribed with ‘In honour of those who served – In sympathy with those … Continue reading →

I’m sure that someone thought they were being highly artistic, or exceedingly modern, or deferentially retrospective,… …when they chose the typeface for the Great War names,… …but the truth of the matter (in the background here, across the road, we … Continue reading →

A curate’s egg of a post, this one, as I take you from leafy Surrey to the African veldt. 

Last post we took a look inside the church – the spire is visible in the background – as well as Lutyens’ curious design for the grave of Gertrude Jekyll, which is actually sited just beyond the church. This time … Continue reading →

Here’s a nice little Surrey church for you. And once inside, there’s a feature at the far end that is quite unusual,… …which is this wrought-iron chancel screen actually designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, and I don’t suppose he designed … Continue reading →

Here’s one for you Google Earthers.  Within the grounds of Puttenham Golf Club, just over 500 yards from Puttenham parish church, and after a bit of searching among the trees adjoining the 18th fairway, you’ll find Puttenham Cemetery. It’s only … Continue reading →

Another locked church, I’m afraid,… …but the war memorial makes our visit worthwhile. The panels of the memorial list twenty nine men killed in the Great War, with the names of eight Second World War casualties on the angled base … Continue reading →