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The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Godalming, Surrey, England is a Church of England parish church. The parish is mostly urban and excludes rural outskirts, and has another church, St Mark's, in which the joint clergy provide less formal and family services. The church building replaced in about 1100 (after the Norman Conquest) an early Anglo-Saxon church on the site and is the settlement's oldest building, set on the town centre thoroughfare Church Street, in the urban part of the market town that doubles as a commuter and retirement town. The building's core is made from the local type of hard sandstone, Bargate stone from the nearby Greensand Ridge which the town climbs on both sides of the River Wey. The town's central parkland adjoins that is much of the original Lammas land. The church is in the highest (Grade I) architectural category and has two integrated medieval chapels. ==Social history== ;Origins 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 12th century. In 1086, the ''Domesday Book'' recorded that Ranulf Flambard, justiciar of William Rufus, held Godalming church.〔 The lammas land complemented a substantial glebe in the parish to provide for a well-endowed building in the Middle Ages. ;The church in the European wars of religion and English Civil War Godalming's vicar at the time of the end of the reign of Charles I was Dr. Andrews, whose Calvinistic parishioners petitioned against him in 1640.〔 This group would welcome preacher Thomas Edwards who in this age of horseback or horse and cart took to coming to the town (on the Portsmouth Road) as one of his main audiences three or four times per week from London during the 1640s.〔:s:Edwards, Thomas (1599-1647) (DNB00)〕 The area thus saw a diversity of leading clergy due to the landowning here of Salisbury Cathedral and was a byword for piety and purity according to a proverb of the 17th century: :''He that shall say well, do well, and think well in mind,'' :''Shall as soon come to heaven, as they that dwell at Godalming.''〔Additional Manuscript of the British Museum, 6167, fol. 167 cited by the compilers of the Victoria County History (1911)〕 ;Rectory The rectory, considered here a manor, was not owned by the church, so its lay owner appointed a vicar, in 1066 this was Ulmaer, who held it under Edward the Confessor. Save for 11 years of seizure under the governments of Cromwell it was held by the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral between 1128 and 1846. In that year the Ecclesiastical Commissioners took charge of it and it was sold about 1860 to John Simmonds, who devised it to Mr J. Whateley Simmonds.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Godalming」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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