St John's, Redhill

The small elevated residential community occupies a conservation area encircled by Earlswood and the wooded Redhill Common, which is connected along two low to mid rise streets with typically woodland-style gardens to Reigate.

The area around St John's school and church had small beginnings but at one time grew so rapidly it was thought that it was the nucleus of a new town.

The history of St John's School began on 21 August 1840 when a decision was taken at a parish vestry meeting to claim compensation from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company for the loss of grazing and other rights when it built the railway across common land in the manor.

The tower has shallow set-back buttresses and a short octagonal spire with corner spirelets and single lucarnes.

The handsome triptych reredos, designed by Pearson, 1898, with small panel paintings in an elaborate gilded frame, has been conserved and re-gilded.

It stands alongside the organ chamber, which forms an eastward extension of the north aisle, with a three-light window with Geometrical traces, in the east gable.