The Christ Church Centre in the village of South Nutfield offers a variety of modern facilities ranging from a large hall to small, comfortable meeting rooms. The facilities available for hire include the following (See the layout plan for details) :
- The main hall: This is a large spacious room with a wooden floor which can be hired for events such as formal meetings, celebrations, children’s events, clubs, exercise activities, parties etc. Maximum number of people: 60.
- The Hunter Room: This is a smaller room, furnished to provide a warm comfortable place to meet and relax. 12 people maximum.
- The Fison Room: This is a room suitable for meetings and craft activities for up to 12 people with a central table and seating.
- The Thompson Room: This is a quiet comfortable room suitable for up to 15 people. The Thompson room is used as a chapel and prayer room and is not available for public hiring.
- The main church: This is a consecrated place of worship which can be hired for suitable activities such as choral events and music recitals.
In addition to the rooms for hire we also have toilet facilities, including an accessible disabled toilet and baby changing room, and a well equipped kitchen with a hatch opening into the main hall. Fold out tables are available to suit all needs and seating arrangements. For more information on our venue, please click on the tab below to go to our Online Booking page.
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History of the Church Building
Before the railway came, South Nutfield was nothing more than a hamlet of 18 or so homes, part of the parish of St Peter and St Paul, Nutfield. But when the station was opened in 1884, building in the area began in earnest. A key developer was the MP, Sir Henry Edwards, who began to buy up land around the station, selling it on as building plots and donating the site for the church.
The project for building the South Nutfield church was taken up by a Mrs Clarissa Woolloton and through her efforts and those of other local donors, the church and adjoining vicarage (never a rectory, despite its current name!) were opened in 1888. The total cost of both buildings was £3,424.
The church was designed by Edward l’Anson and built in an Early English Gothic style, in red brick, with windows and doorways in Bath Stone. It comprises a nave of five bays, chancel, an organ chamber on the south side, a tower sited at the junction of the nave and chancel on the north side with spire covered in wooden shingles. Adjacent to the tower and parallel with the chancel, a choir vestry was added in 1909, (also by l’Anson).
The interior of the church was reordered in the 1990s when the pews were replaced with chairs and the nave was carpeted. The Christ Church Centre was built in two phases in 2001 and 2004, after a period of intense fundraising by the congregation, in a similar red-brick and pitched roof style to the church.
There is a small churchyard which is not consecrated, and consequently not used for burials, but a small Garden of Remembrance was consecrated in 1987 where ashes may be intered/buried.
More detailed information can be found in a booklet Christ Church – the First Hundred Years, available via the Parish Office.
Nutfield History Group also provides a great deal of local history information. www.nutfieldhistorygroup.org.uk
