Trinity Methodist Church

This architectural model shows the modernist architect Edward Mills' design for Trinity Methodist Church in Woking, Surrey, which opened in 1965.

Mills was a Methodist himself, and a conscientious objector during the Second World War. He worked with Bauhaus pioneer Walter Gropius while at the practice of Maxwell Fry during the 1930s, and had previously designed a Methodist church - his first independent commission - in Colliers Wood, south London. His octagonal design for the church focused on creating flexible spaces to support communal worship and gathering. He saw Victorian churches as "meaningless imitations of past styles unrelated to the world in which they were built", aiming to achieve a new church design that would act as a counterpoint and more accurately reflect its place among transient thinking and functions.

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