Nutley Lane
Reigate
Surrey

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Parish Contacts

Rev John Scott (Priest-in-charge)
The Parsonage, 102a Nutley Lane, Reigate, Surrey RH2 9HA
Tel: 01737-244542
E-mail: john.scott@stbedes.surrey.sch.uk

Sunday Services

8.00 amHoly Communion (BCP)10.00 amFamily EucharistFacilities: Disabled access, toilets, induction loop, large print books

Further details of all Sunday and weekday services and activities may be obtained from the parish contacts

Information

Tradition: Central
Patron: Bishop of Southwark

Population (2001 census): 1,954
Urban Priority Area: No

Deanery: Reigate
Archdeaconry: Reigate
Episcopal Area: Croydon

Introduction to parish

Dedicated on 20 March 1863 by the Bishop of Winchester, the Nutley Lane Church had been built in the "Batchelor's Field" at the sole expense of William Phillips of Reigate Lodge. It was renamed St Philip's Church in 1922.

William Phillips was apparently upset by new developments at local churches. The practice of renting pews and introducing choirs to sing the service, he felt, prevented ordinary people from joining in fully. He bought the site of the Church and the tan-master's house, which he turned into a Parsonage, and handed them over, with an endowment, to Trustees.

Williams Phillips and his Trustees held the Church and its endowments independent of the Parish system until 1950 when St Philip's was made responsible for the part of St Mark's parish south of the railway. It became part of the Church of England organisation as a "Conventional District" with its own Churchwardens, Parochial Church Council and a quota to pay.

St Philip's still fulfils the original aims of William Phillips as being a place of worship and leisure activity. The Hall is the main venue for recreational activity, but concerts and other similar events are still held in the Church.

St Philip's achieved its own Parish status in July 1992.

Nutley Lane
Reigate
Surrey

Location map

Built: 1863
Listing: not listed

The church consists of a central nave with north and south aisles.  Partitioning at the west end forms clergy and choir vestries.  There is an entrance porch at the west end.

The roofs are tile covered and the walls are built in local Reigate stone with Bathstone quoins. There are gabled ends to the church at the east and west.

Internally the roof is supported on scissors roof trusses with timber columns to ground level at each truss.