Church recorders are a group of enthusiastic volunteers who make detailed records of the contents of religious buildings, which are compiled into a book and distributed to various bodies including the V&A museum and Surrey History Centre, where they are made available for study and information.

All carefully photographed and described, the contents of a church are divided into sections from memorials to miscellaneous and including beautiful textiles. Each section has a group of recorders looking after it and a group leader oversees the final production of the record. 
 

The Arts Society Mayford has a long history of church recording, at first in its own right and latterly as part of the Woking and Mayford church recording group.

Since 2021, church recording has disassociated from the Arts Society, but the work continues with the independent  Church Recording Society. The final church to be recorded by the Woking and Mayford Group is St Mark’s Wyke in Normandy near Guildford. This record was completed and handed over in 2023.

The Woking and Mayford church recording group has now disbanded, with the retirement of the group leader and members.

If anyone is interested in Church Recording, the website address is churchrecordingsociety.org.uk and the email enquiries@churchrecordingsociety.org.uk.

The record on St Mary's Church Horsell was completed and presented to the Church in September 2012.

The record on St Michael's and All Angels in Pirbright was completed and presented to the Church in June 2015.

The record on All Saints, Woodham was completed and presented to the Church in June 2019.