St Catherine’s Chapel, Artington

History

Key events, dates and developments in the life of this church.

21st centurySt Catherine’s Chapel preserved as one of Surrey’s best surviving medieval chapel ruins.
1979Site scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
1953Chapel listed at Grade I for its exceptional historic and architectural significance.
20th centuryConservation works stabilise the surviving medieval structure.
19th centuryChapel becomes a popular landmark for artists, antiquarians and visitors to Guildford.
1793Robert Austen partially restores the chapel as a picturesque “romantic ruin”.
17th centuryBuilding gradually falls into ruin after centuries of disuse.
1547–1553Chapel avoided destruction during the suppression of chantries under Edward VI.
1546Chapel recorded as no longer in regular religious use following the Reformation.
c.1400Decorated Gothic windows and buttressed walls form the completed medieval structure.
14th centuryChapel serves travellers, pilgrims and the local community near the ancient routeway to Canterbury.
1317St Catherine’s Chapel documented as newly built on St Catherine’s Hill above the River Wey.
c.1310Richard de Wauncey, Rector of St Nicholas, Guildford, begins construction of the present chapel.
1230A chaplain serving an earlier chapel on the site is recorded in a Pipe Roll.