Stained glass window with a depiction of St Peter St Peter s Church in Old Woking Surrey England The church is a Grade 1 Listed
Stained glass window with a depiction of St Peter St Peter s Church in Old Woking Surrey England The church is a Grade 1 Listed Building within the Old Woking Conservation Area St Peter s church is famous for the old oak west door within the tower c1100 which survives from an earlier Norman church Originally in the west front of the church open to the elements the door now opens into a porch formed by the base of the tower This door is the oldest in Surrey and probably the third oldest in the UK having been dated by dendrochronology to the reign of Henry I of England The four oak planks making up the door may have come from a single tree which was over 270 years old when it was felled Dr Jane Geddes of the University of Aberdeen has identified the door as one of only five picture doors in the UK and the ironwork as medieval 2 43m high and 1 49m wide the door is made up of four counter rebated planks of different widths There is no wooden frame instead the door is held together by horizontal iron bars of various lengths on both the front and the back including C shaped straps Originally the door had a rounded top adding 0 68m to its height but this was cut off and placed above the door unhinged Listed in the Domesday Book records at Wochinges an old name for Woking an early written record relates to the foundation of a minster dedicated to St Peter in 675 AD A Norman church was built during the reign of William I of England replacing a 7th century wooden Saxon church The tower is at the west end of the nave The base of the tower constructed of a type of flint and ore known as pudding stone was built around 1200 1220 AD The upper part was completed around 1340 AD Despite the age of the oak west door none of the walls of the present church date from before the early 12th century The arcade arches of the south aisle are 15th century while the Zouche Gallery and the brick porch on the south side of the church date from 1622 AD
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Location: St Peter s Church in Old Woking Surrey England Europe
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