 More on the history of St John's and the School can be found here, the School's website also provides more information about the school.The church is Anglican and in the mid-higher category over the standard grade, Grade II*.The first version of the building here was built, on a prominent site on a spur of the North Downs, to designs by James Thomas Knowles (1806–1884), father of Sir James Knowles, in 1843.