This document provides a photographic tour of several historic buildings in Guildford, England led by photographer Mike Sleigh. It features over 30 photographs and descriptions of landmarks like the Old Cloth Hall from 1629, Abbot's Hospital founded in 1619, Holy Trinity Church, Lloyds Bank which was originally Guildford Old Bank from 1765, Tunsgate Arch which was formerly the Cornmarket, Guildford Castle dating to the late 11th century, the Guildhall from 1550 with additions over time, and other structures highlighting Guildford's architectural history.

1. Photographing
Guildford’s Buildings
With Mike Sleigh
of Polypodphoto

2. A ‘PhotoWalk’ around the
Town Centre looking at a selection
of interesting buildings

3. The Guildford
Institute.
Former Royal
Arms
Temperance
Hotel 1880
and Guildford
Institute 1892

4. The Guildford Institute

5. Old Cloth Hall.
Listed Grade 11,
built 1629
by Archbishop Abbot,
extended in late C19.
Abbot intended it to
be a manufactory to
revive the Guildford
woollen cloth
industry, converted
in 1656 to house
paupers and in 1856
used as the
foundation of
George Abbot’s
school

6. George Abbot
Archbishop of
Canterbury

7. The Three
Pigeons
Circa 1918 in late
C17 style. Listed
Grade 11

8. Abbot’s Hospital.
The Hospital of the
Blessed Trinity,
founded in 1619 by
George Abbot.
Listed Grade 1.
Red brick with stone
dressings on flint
plinths, iron gates and
lamp at front

9. Holy
Trinity Church
Chantry Chapel
dating from 1540.
Detail of
exterior wall

10. Lloyds Bank,
former Guildford
Old Bank.
Listed Grade
11*. 1765 with
C19 alterations.
Detail of foliage
pattern panel.

11. Lloyds Bank
former Guildford
Old Bank.
Detail of column
capitals

12. Nos. 133 – 135
High Street

13. Nos. 133 – 135
High Street.
Detail of column
capital

14. Tunsgate Arch
Listed Grade 11,
the former
Cornmarket built
in 1818 with the
front columns re-
sited in 1933

15. A pair of K6
Telephone
Kiosks
designed in
1935 by Sir
Gilbert Scott.
Listed Grade 11

16. Edward 1 and
Eleanor of
Castille
Sundial
dated 1972

17. Guildford Castle.
Building started in
the late 11th
century with the
Tower being added
around 1130’s.
Castle and grounds
bought by
Guildford Borough
Council and
opened in 1888 as
‘Public Pleasure
Grounds’ to the
designs of
Henry Peak the
borough surveyor.

18. Guildford Museum
Central section by Ralph Nevill built in 1911

19. The Star Inn. Quarry Street. Mid-late C16 with late C18/early C19 front

20. The former
WHSmith
building on the
corner of Quarry
Street. Late C16,
timber framed
structure clad in
white washed
render,
reconstructed C20

21. The former
WHSmith
building on the
corner of Quarry
Street and the
High Street.
Late C16, timber
framed structure
clad in white
washed render,
reconstructed C20

22. No.54 High Street
(former
Dunn & Co)
Late C19 with
coloured brick,
stone dressings
and decorative
rainwater heads

23. 77 – 81 High
Street
(formally Salsbury
Jewellers)
originally an Inn
and Post Office,
Late C16/early
C17 with C20
shopfront

24. On the corner of
Chapel Street
No.70 High Street
with a C17 core
and late C19
front, Grade 11

25. 115 High Street
With very
interesting wood
carvings,
(building unlisted
and said to date
from the 1920’s)

26. 115 High Street
Detail of interesting wood carvings

27. On the corner of
Market Street and
the High Street.
The former
Bulls Head
public house and
next door building,
now shops. Built
c1500, refaced late
C17/C18 and
restored 1956.
Listed Grade 11.

28. The Guildhall
Listed Grade 1.
Built C1550,
extended at the
rear 1589, front
council chamber
and facade
added 1683,
cupola rebuilt
1882.
Clock
dated 1683.
Under balcony 3
caryatid brackets
carved with
torsos

29. Further information can be found
on the Polypodphoto website
and the British Heritage blog
Michael C Sleigh 2015