St Andrew's Garrison Church, Aldershot

St Andrew's Garrison Church, situated at Queens Avenue, Aldershot, Hampshire (GU11 2BY) in southern England is a large army church designed in the late 1920s by the prominent Scottish architect Sir Robert Lorimer (1864–1929).

In that year St George's Garrison Church was built by the Army for the Anglicans.

However, due to cost constraints the nave was initially built slightly shorter than Lorimer had originally planned.

The newly erected St Andrew's Garrison Church was formally opened by Princess Mary, Colonel in Chief of The Royal Scots, on the morning of Saturday 10 December 1927.

In particular large donations came from the Trustees of St Andrew's Scottish Soldiers' Club; the Church of Scotland and The Treasury.

John F. Matthew, the architectural partner of the by now deceased Sir Robert Lorimer, was commissioned to do the design work.

This involved extending the nave by 30 feet, similar to what Lorimer had originally intended in 1926 and reducing the height of the bell tower.

On Sunday 5 February 1939, the extended St Andrew's Garrison Church was reopened and rededicated in the presence of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

Initially the stones were placed in an overseas British army church, St Andrew's Kirk, Geneifa, Egypt.

When the British Army left Egypt in the mid-1950s the church closed and the stones were, a few years later, transferred to St Andrew's, Aldershot.

The church's two largest stained glass windows, namely those dedicated to I Corp and Earl Haig, were both designed by Walter Cook of Edinburgh, in the early to mid-1930s.

They have similar themes as both are dominated by Jesus, as saviour and figure of peace, with arms outstretched, underneath him being a small group of grieving people drawing attention to the cost of war in general and the First World War in particular.