| Original title | St John’s Church |
| Year painted | 1824 |
| Museum reference number | PR191 |
| Address and postcode | Manor Farm Ln, Egham TW20 9HL |
| Listed building number | n/a |
| Construction date of building depicted and major alterations | Norman. Mid-12th century on the site of an older Saxon church on land belonging to Chertsey Abbey. South aisle and galleries added later. |
| History of ownership/residents and use | There would have been some form of crude wooden church on the site from as early as 637AD. However the current church, built around 1150 had a square tower ‘embattled and surmounted by a slender spire covered with small shingles’ (Topographical History of Surrey, 1842, p.258). By 1814 the congregation had outgrown the 400 seats and the church building was dilapidated. At a parish meeting in April that year consideration was given to the “ruinous and inconvenient state of the parish church” and it was decided to demolish and rebuild. The original porch was moved to Little St Anne’s Bakenham Lane, Callow Hill and eventually re-erected as lychgate to the current church in 1938. Johnston’s 1913 Schedule of Antiquities in the County of Surrey tells us that the building originally had a carved Norman doorway and arcades which were apparently preserved in the gardens of Milton Park although it is not certain whether these still exist. |
| Location’s present status | Demolished 1817 |
| Links and references | See also St John’s Porch (old church). |
