| St Mary's Church in Quarry Street is the oldest surviving building in Guildford and is almost certainly the orginal church of the town. The Saxon settlers in the area became Christians during the 7th century AD and would at first have built a wooden church, very probably on the present site. In about 1050 the present stone tower was built: the shallow vertical strips or lesenes are characteristics of a Saxon building, as are the narrow, doublesplayed windows visible inside.
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