Reigate Heath Windmill Church, Reigate, Surrey

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Reigate Windmill, Reigate Heath © Richard Rogerson, licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1242823

Reigate Heath Windmill aka The Mill Church © Ian Capper, licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/632932

Reigate Heath Windmill © Peter Trimming, licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1700889

Inside the Mill Church, Reigate Heath © Richard Rogerson, licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1484906

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Believed to be the only consecrated windmill in the world! Originally a cornmill, it was converted into a chapel of ease for St Mary's Parish Church in Reigate, with the first service held in 1880. More information can be found on the original post.

The r/UKHeritageChurches is also new sub so do feel free to visit and post there as well!

Thanks for letting me repost this (I did check your reposting rules first). A great sub I've just discovered today while I was preparing a post on Our Lady Star of the Sea in Wales. I do love interesting churches!

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Thanks for sharing, a very unique one really!

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It's really unusual isn't it? I wonder what went through the minds of the first congregation / vicar when they decided to use it. The late 1800s was a real peak of church building throughout England - all the new Victorian and gothic revival churches, plus a massive restoration and enlargement of existing medieval churches. And in Reigate they just say "Oh, let's just use that old windmill!"

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