Photographing Guildford’s Buildings

With Mike Sleigh

of Polypodphoto

A ‘PhotoWalk’ around the

Town Centre looking at a selection of interesting buildings

The Guildford Institute.

Former Royal Arms

Temperance Hotel 1880

and Guildford Institute 1892

The Guildford Institute

Old Cloth Hall. Listed Grade 11,

built 1629 by Archbishop Abbot, extended in late C19. Abbot intended it to be a manufactory to revive the Guildford

woollen cloth industry, converted

in 1656 to house paupers and in 1856

used as the foundation of

George Abbot’s school

George Abbot Archbishop of

Canterbury

The Three Pigeons

Circa 1918 in late C17 style. Listed

Grade 11

Abbot’s Hospital. The Hospital of the

Blessed Trinity, founded in 1619 by

George Abbot.Listed Grade 1.

Red brick with stone dressings on flint

plinths, iron gates and lamp at front

Holy Trinity ChurchChantry Chapel

dating from 1540. Detail of

exterior wall

Lloyds Bank, former Guildford

Old Bank. Listed Grade

11*. 1765 with C19 alterations.Detail of foliage pattern panel.

Lloyds Bankformer Guildford

Old Bank.Detail of column

capitals

Nos. 133 – 135High Street

Nos. 133 – 135High Street.

Detail of column capital

Tunsgate ArchListed Grade 11,

the former Cornmarket built in 1818 with the front columns re-

sited in 1933

A pair of K6 Telephone

Kiosksdesigned in 1935 by Sir

Gilbert Scott. Listed Grade 11

Edward 1 and Eleanor of

CastilleSundial

dated 1972

Guildford Castle. Building started in

the late 11th

century with the Tower being added

around 1130’s. Castle and grounds

bought by Guildford Borough

Council and opened in 1888 as

‘Public Pleasure Grounds’ to the

designs of Henry Peak the

borough surveyor.

Guildford MuseumCentral section by Ralph Nevill built in 1911

The Star Inn. Quarry Street. Mid-late C16 with late C18/early C19 front

The formerWHSmith

building on the corner of Quarry Street. Late C16, timber framed

structure clad in white washed

render, reconstructed C20

The formerWHSmith

building on the corner of Quarry

Street and the High Street.

Late C16, timber framed structure

clad in white washed render,

reconstructed C20

No.54 High Street(former

Dunn & Co) Late C19 with

coloured brick, stone dressings and decorative

rainwater heads

77 – 81 High Street

(formally SalsburyJewellers)

originally an Inn and Post Office, Late C16/early C17 with C20

shopfront

On the corner of Chapel Street

No.70 High Street with a C17 core

and late C19 front, Grade 11

115 High StreetWith very

interesting wood carvings,

(building unlisted and said to date from the 1920’s)

115 High StreetDetail of interesting wood carvings

On the corner of Market Street and

the High Street.The formerBulls Head

public house and next door building,

now shops. Built c1500, refaced late

C17/C18 and restored 1956.

Listed Grade 11.

The GuildhallListed Grade 1.

Built C1550, extended at the rear 1589, front council chamber

and facade added 1683,

cupola rebuilt 1882. Clock

dated 1683. Under balcony 3 caryatid brackets

carved with torsos

Further information can be found on the Polypodphoto websiteand the British Heritage blog

Michael C Sleigh 2015