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BBC News
26-04-2025
- BBC News
Albury Catholic Apostolic Church sealed until the Second Coming
Much is shrouded in mystery about a Surrey church that is sealed for the Second years, nobody has been allowed to peek behind the ornate stone walls and intricate rose window of the Catholic Apostolic Church in historian Trevor Brook said the estate was kept in pristine condition to be "ready for use" when, in Christianity, Jesus Christ returns to the church sits as a monument to a religious sect which once reached from Albury out to the UK and the world. "Nobody, not even locals can visit. It's not to be used for secular activity or to visit or for anything. It is purely maintained for the appropriate time," Mr Brook said."It's curious and intriguing that you can still do this sort of thing and keep it so closed and secret."This is an astonishing thing he has left for us all. The church regard it as a visible memorial to the lord's work by apostles, a place of pilgrimage to recall the past and a stimulus to expectation regarding the future." From the outside, the towers and gothic exterior have earned the church the nickname of "the cathedral".Just a few black and white photos exist of the interior and, while none can enter, the building is kept at a constant temperature of 10C to help maintain its Catholic Apostolic Church was built in 1839 for Henry Drummond, a church sect who believed Victorian society was on the brink of a banker and MP for West Surrey, helped to build up the church which was founded with 12 apostles. That church grew to have more than 900 sites those apostles died, the church was closed for a "time of silence", beginning in 1901 and to last until the Second the church remains closed, the grounds still have a for the time being, visitors will simply have to stand from outside looking in, wondering what remains of this mysterious monument.
BBC News
12-04-2025
- General
- BBC News
How a lord forced the entire Surrey village of Albury to move
Villages have been evacuated for many reasons over the years, including flood, fire and plague, but one Surrey village was emptied purely on the whim of a lord of the 1784, Capt William Finch bought Albury Manor and quickly set about forcing people from the homes on his land."He just didn't want the local people living near his own manor house and so after closing the road, he demolished all their cottages and they had to go and live outside his estate," said Trevor Brook, from Albury History that remains of the original Albury is a Saxon church and a former pub, which later became the estate manager's house, but the 20 cottages which made up the village are long gone. Finch made life as difficult as possible for Albury residents by closing the road through the village, which ran between Shalford and people were forced to walk up to what is now the Albury bypass to get to the neighbouring villages.A "campaign of harassment" against the villagers continued for years and by the 1820s they had all been forced to nearby Farley Green, Albury Heath or Weston Street - the latter becoming what is now known as Albury."It's a piece of history that shouldn't be forgotten," said Trevor."Lords of the manor could clear it, fence it and throw anyone who lived within the boundary out of the place completely."In 1842, Albury Manor had been sold to Henry Drummond MP, who built houses with beautiful Pugin chimneys in Weston Street for the people previously displaced from what was now his Albury Manor remains a private residence, however the public can still visit the Saxon church of St Peter and St Paul's, which is maintained by a group of volunteers and stands as a reminder of the 20 households who were forced from their homes.
