The former Salvation Army Hall in Godalming, Surrey, England, now an office building known as Aurum House, has been used by three religious groups since its construction c. 1830.
[1][4] The congregation "may be considered ... the lineal representative of the conventicle of the reign of Charles II", which had 700–800 worshippers every Sunday at a time when Godalming's population was 3,000.
[9] By January 1867, though, the congregation had expanded so much that a new chapel was needed,[10] and the trustees decided to sell the Mint Street building.
Land at Bridge Street was found and purchased and the new Congregational chapel was quickly built, opening on 28 October 1868.
(A Methodist group had existed for some years until 1797, and meetings recommenced in 1826 in a hired room; a small chapel was also built at Farncombe, the neighbouring village, in 1840.)
[2][8][10] The Methodist Church retained the Mint Street building at first and leased it to a Salvation Army congregation, then sold it to them in 1918.
[15] A planning application to convert the disused hall into an office was submitted in May 2013 and approved by Waverley Borough Council two months later.
[20] It is one of several current and former places of worship in Godalming with listed status: the Quaker meeting house on Mill Street,[21] St Edmund's Roman Catholic Church,[22] Meadrow Unitarian Chapel[23] and the Congregational church on Bridge Street[24] (which superseded the Mint Street building but which is no longer in religious use) are all Grade II-listed, and St Peter and St Paul's parish church has Grade I status.