Churches and Chapels

When James Horne first came to Normandy in about 1819 there was no official place of worship in what was then a small hamlet. On Sundays, churchgoers were obliged to journey to their church, chapel or meeting house in Ash, Pirbright, Wanborough or Worplesdon Parish. However, James's presence in Normandy and his religious fervour during that century had not only a profound influence on the people of this area but also on the building of church and chapels.

By the end of that century there were four formal places of worship established for the people of Normandy. They were, the Congregational Chapel at Willey Green built in 1825, a small chapel in Glaziers Lane built in 1850, St. Mark's Church Wyke consecrated in 1847 and the Methodist Wesleyan Chapel built at Normandy crossroads in 1886, replacing the small chapel. Following the consecration of St. Mark's Church, its churchyard became the final resting-place of most parishioners for all denominations until crematorium were opened to the public. The burial record for James Horne leads one to believe that his grave, now unmarked, is in the corner of the churchyard looking towards School Lane.

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The Church in the Wilderness - Memorials of James Horne, for fifty years a Wesleyan local preacher in Surrey with some particulars of the rise of the Methodism in and around Guildford. This 21-page booklet was written in 1871. DOWNLOAD "The Church in the Wilderness"

British Foreign Bible Society Here is a letter from October 1844 showing some of the work of the Society. British Foreign Bible Society - Letter

Places of Worship Congregational Chapel at Willey Green .......... Sunday School Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Emmanuel Free Church St. Mary's Church (RC) St. Mark's Church, Wyke (C of E) .......... Burials in the Old Churchyard .......... Incumbents of St. Mark's Gospel Hall, Pinewood St. Peter's, Ash and St. Mary's, Worplesdon *******

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