Hambledon Church was founded by Ranaulf Flambard before 1086. There are detailed records of
Christian worship taking place on the site since before the 14th century. A roll of Rectors on the West wall of the church records Rectors from 1301 to the present Rector (2010) and vicar with special responsibility in the village (2012). The half-county of the West of Surrey was originally in the
Diocese of Winchester but benefitted from closer connections to its charitable and spiritual senior leaders on the establishment in the early 20th century of a more local cathedral and clergy on establishment of the
Diocese of Guildford.
Architecture The building has a tall square, wood-shingled
bell-cot at the western end with double louvred-windows to either side. It has a pyramidal roof over the bellcote topped by a ball and a weathervane finial. Buttressing supports the west end with a quatrefoil roundel window over two lancet windows below, all with linked hood moulds. One '
decorated style' two-light window and one plate tracery window to south side also has mouldings above. There are also gabled offset buttress between lancet north chapel windows underneath mouldings with sill bands and
string courses linking windows with the buttresses and the building has a
cornice (band of prominent stone beneath the roof). Much of this ornamentation was added in 1846 and the building is listed in the initial architectural protected status category of Grade II. ==Sunday Services==