St. Mary's Church, Fetcham

St Mary's Church, Fetcham
St Mary's Church, Fetcham
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Broad Church
Website	http://stmarysfetcham.org.uk/
History
Dedication	St Mary
Administration
Parish	Fetcham
Deanery	Leatherhead
Archdeaconry	Dorking
Diocese	Guildford
Province	Canterbury
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Rev'd Paul H. Boughton
Laity
Churchwarden(s)	Corinne Braid

Coordinates: 51°17′17″N 0°21′11″W / 51.288°N 0.353°W / 51.288; -0.353 St Mary's Church, Fetcham, Surrey, England is a Church of England parish but also refers to its building which dates to the 11th century, that of the Norman Conquest and as such is the settlement's oldest building. It is set off the residential road of its address, The Ridgeway, behind a small park, in the suburban part of the largely 20th century railway settlement adjoining the M25 London Orbital Motorway which has retained farmed rural outskirts. The closest secular building is Grade II* listed Fetcham Park House, which is in the same architectural category and the church has an adjoining church hall.

Built during Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods, the structure has been conjectured by the Victoria County History's architectural analysis to have been a redevelopment of an Anglo-Saxon church:

Roman bricks in considerable quantities in Fetcham Church, remains of Anglo-Saxon architecture in the church...
...quoins and dressings of thin red bricks, no doubt Roman, set in wide mortar joints.