Godalming Parish Church

The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is a church that is located in Godalming, Surrey, England. A church has stood on the site of Saint Peter and Saint Paul since at least the mid-ninth century. The church contains carved stones which have been dated to circa 820-840 and a few Anglo Saxon remnants survive in the present structure, which was largely rebuilt in the late tenth or early eleventh century. In 1086, the Domesday Book recorded that Ranulf Flambard, justiciar of William Rufus, held Godalming church. He is likely to have built the first tower and the great chancel – wall paintings on its window frames have recently been re-exposed. In the thirteenth century, the cruciform church of the Normans was converted into a rectangle by...