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The spire of St Martin's Church dominates the centre of Dorking, with the roof of St Martin's Walk shopping centre in front of it. The building in the bottom right hand corner of the photo is Federated House, housing offices of the Highways Agency.
©Ian Capper
Viewed from Denbies Hillside. Prominent is the spire of St Martin's Church.
©Ian Capper
©Martyn Davies
This four storey block of flats may be uncompromisingly located next to St Martin's church, but the curved exterior wall does offer some hint of art deco.
©Hugh Craddock
Archway Place is a narrow passageway - what in Lincolnshire or Leicestershire would be called a jitty, in Nottingham a twitchel http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1720369, in parts of the south a twitten http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1260680.
©Stefan Czapski
Ornate Victorian font in Dorking's parish church, St Martin of Tours.
©Colin Smith
Viewed from Denbies Hillside
©Ian Capper
Dorking's distinctive and lofty spire seen through the trees on Rose Hill, a green rise on the south side of the High Street.
©Colin Smith
There is a church in the Manor of Dorking mentioned in the Domesday Book but the present church, St Martins was built between 1866 and1874, designed by the Surrey architect Henry Woodyer. The spire of St Martins forms a landmark that can be seen from far and wide. The Foundation stone to the tower was laid in 1873 by Dr Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Winchester who unfortunately died two months later when he fell from a horse. The tower and spire were built as the Wilberforce Memorial. The top stone was put in place on 25 April 1877. The height to the top of the weathervane (a Dorking cockerel) is 210 feet.
©Richard Rogerson
Vaughan Williams, the famous English composer, lived in Dorking and was heavily involved with the local Leith Hill Musical Festival. This plaque is on the parish church porch interior east wall.
©Colin Smith
Church website: http://www.stmartinsdorking.org/welcome-to-our-church/ Christians have worshipped on this site close to the High Street of the busy market town of Dorking for more than a thousand years. The present church - in the Victorian Gothic style with its high spire visible from miles around -was completed in 1877 http://www.achurchnearyou.com/dorking-st-martin/
©Paul Gillett
Viewed from North street
©Paul Gillett
180 feet tall stone spire of Dorking's parish church which has been rebuilt by the Victorians.
©Colin Smith
Church website: http://www.stmartinsdorking.org/welcome-to-our-church/ Christians have worshipped on this site close to the High Street of the busy market town of Dorking for more than a thousand years. The present church - in the Victorian Gothic style with its high spire visible from miles around -was completed in 1877 http://www.achurchnearyou.com/dorking-st-martin/
©Paul Gillett
A quiet pedestrianized oasis off Dorking's High Street, now containing a variety of small shops and pub.
©Colin Smith

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