In about 1850, Rev. W.L. Wigan gathered local support for a place of worship closer to Larkfield than St. James. A room in a barn near the present church was authorised to be used for services and, in 1851, the Archbishop of Canterbury - Archbishop Sumner - licensed it for divine worship. Almost immediately, however, a campaign was started to raise funds for the provision of a proper church. The sum of £ 5,795 was soon raised, helped greatly by a very generous donation of £ 1000 from the patron of the living - Mr. A.J. Wigan. The plans for the church were the work of Mr. R. P. Pope, and a half acre site - called Crowhurst’s Field - was presented by Mr. Cubitt of Dorking. The consecration service was conducted by Archbishop Sumner, on Wednesday, 4th October, 1854.

No major constructional changes have been made to the church, but the intervening century and a half has seen quite a few relatively minor changes to what we might call the furniture and fittings.

The fabric of the church consists of Kentish rag stone, with large quantities of Bath stone dressings at the corners and around windows and doorways. The extensive buttressing is a structural feature that is very important in view of the lack of foundations and the very sandy nature of the soil. The roof consists of peg tiles.

It is worth being aware that the shape, form, and content of many of our churches evolved over a very long period of time. Much of what we expect to see in a 'typical' church of some antiquity has a logical explanation for its presence, and its position. When churches were built during the nineteenth century - and a great many date from this period - the architects modelled them extensively on the 'typical' church existing at that time. These 'typical' churches, though, had passed through up to eight eras of different architectural styles, so that their appearance at that time represented almost a millennium of evolution. You will find, in Holy Trinity, features that have historically little or no relevance to its birth and life, but are drawn from architectural styles of the past.