St Dunstan's Church, Woking 3.2

St Dunstan's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Woking, Surrey. At first, it was built in 1899. It was replaced by a larger church in 1923 and again in 2008. The most recent church was dedicated in 2008 by the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. It is situated on the corner of Shaftesbury Road and Pembroke Road outside the centre of Woking. It is the only Catholic church in the town and is the centre of the deanery of Woking in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton.HistoryPercy StreetIn 1850, there was the Restoration of the English Catholic hierarchy. However, there was no place of worship for Catholics in Woking. Instead, Catholics travelled to Send or to St. Edward the Confessor Church in Sutton Green to celebrate Mass.In 1899, a Fr W. D. Allanson built an iron church in Percy street, Woking, dedicated to St Dunstan.Heathside CrescentIn 1923, a Fr. Plummer replaced a Fr. John Peall as parish priest and wanted a new church to be built in the Gothic Revival style. Plans were soon drawn up and on 26 April 1925, Bishop William Brown, Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark and Titular Bishop of Pella of laid the foundation stone at the new site on Heathside Crescent. The church was designed by Joseph Goldie. It was completed on 8 December that year. In 1954, Fr Plummer died and was buried in the grounds of the church.