Christ Church, Ottershaw is a

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church on Guildford Road in the village of

Ottershaw Ottershaw is a village in the Borough of Runnymede in Surrey, England, approximately southwest of central London. The village developed in the mid-19th century from a number of separate hamlets and became a parish in its own right in 1871. The ...

in the

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district of

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, England, about 20 miles south-west of London.

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, it was designed by

Sir George Gilbert Scott Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), known as Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic Revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started ...

(1811–78). Sir Edward Colebrooke (1813–90), who came to live in Ottershaw in 1859, built a chapel on his estate in 1863 as a memorial to his deceased son and heir. Later this became the village church. The church, one of the few

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brick churches designed by Scott, retains most of its original features. A tower, the gift of Edward Gibb, was added in 1885 and new parish rooms in the 1990s. The

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and

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windows, designed by

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(1837–1907), contain several examples of Kempe's signature, a tiny wheatsheaf. They were installed in 1901, replacing the original plain glass. Kempe also designed the

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. Installed in 1901, it was made by the

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-based fir
Norman and Burt
and incorporates wooden figures carved in

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, in

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, Germany. Two

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servicemen of

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–

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George Barnett of the

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(who died on 17 October 1943) and

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Alexander Cook of the Worcestershire Regiment (who died on 21 September 1947) – are buried in the churchyard.

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