Guildford Cathedral

The Diocese of Guildford was created in 1927, covering most of Surrey. Guildford's restored Georgian Holy Trinity Church served as pro-cathedral, but was considered too small to become the cathedral. In 1932, a design competition was held, with a brief that the construction costs should be £250,000. but work was suspended in 1939 due to the Second World War. In 1947, Viscount Bennett, former prime minister of Canada, bought the land surrounding Stag Hill, as a memorial to Canadian soldiers who were billeted in the area during the Second World War. In 1948, work recommenced on building new roofs and the base of the tower, but post-war building restrictions meant that building was not able to…

Writing in 1932, Maufe said: "The ideal has been to produce a design, definitely of our own time, yet in the line of the great English Cathedrals; to build anew on tradition, to rely on proportion, mass, volume and line rather than on elaboration and ornament." The tower is 160 ft high, The angel on the top of the tower was given in memory of Sgt. Reginald Adgey-Edgar of the Intelligence Corps, who died on active service in 1944 during World War II. It was designed by William Pickford and created by four silversmiths, before being positioned in Spring 1963. The supporting pole for the angel houses mobile phone antennae. The wooden cross which stands outside the eastern end of the cathedral…

The Cathedral served as a filming location for The Omen, a 1976 horror film. It has also appeared in several television programmes, including The Sandman, and The Witcher, as well as being used in many BBC television and radio shows. In 2024, local bus operator, Safeguard Coaches, used the cathedral as a backdrop to the company's centenary celebrations with a display of vintage buses.