Welcome to
Guildford Cathedral

Guildford is the only cathedral to be built on a new site in southern England since the Reformation. It struggled into being through the depression of the 1930s, the Second World War and the austerity of the 1950s before finally being consecrated in 1961.

Its architect was Sir Edward Maufe (1883 - 1974) who achieved his aim "to build anew on tradition, to rely on proportion of mass, volume and line rather than elaboration and ornament".

The Cathedral interior offers an overall impression of elegant lightness and space created by the pale Somerset sandstone, pillars, white Italian marble floor and the light flooding in through Maufe's tall lancet windows.

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