Category Archives: Surrey

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 →

We’re messing about on the river today. Or next to the river.  Spot the war memorial. Private Henry Arthur Waters, Royal Sussex Regiment, killed on 12th November 1917 aged 23.  His name can be found on the Tyne Cot Memorial … Continue reading →