GODALMING HUNDRED 



ARTINGTON 



1707 and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son 

 William, who died in 1722, and his son Tempest 

 Wight died 1768. John Wight, his son, died 1817, 

 his son Arthur Wight died 1 847, having married Jane 

 More-Molyneux of Loseley. His son Albert Wight 

 died in 1905, and his widow, nee Mary Anne Boul- 

 derson, is lady of the manor. 89 



Braboeuf Manor House is now occupied by Mr. 

 J. A. C. Younger. It has been much modernized, 

 but retains much of its original 16th-century work. 

 It was evidently a half-timber house consisting of a 

 main body facing east, as at present, with projecting 

 wings at either end ; the north wing has disappeared, 

 but the south wing still stands with the main portion. 

 To the south of this old building are a modern dining- 

 room and conservatory, and a modern wing extending 

 to the west. 



The walls are now of modern stone, with mullioned 

 windows. The ground floor of the main (former) 

 central body contains the hall, entered directly by 

 the main entrance close to the south wing ; the 

 library, at the north end of the hall, and doubtless 

 once a part of it ; and the stair hall and other rooms 

 to the west, behind the hall, &c. The south wing 

 contains chiefly the billiard-room. Over the hall is 

 the drawing-room, with a fine fireplace (dated 1586), 

 and bedrooms, &c., and on the second floor are attic 

 bedrooms. 



The entrance doorway now within a modern 

 porch has an old oak moulded frame. The hall has a 

 good late 1 6th-century ceiling, with heavy beams run- 

 ning east and west, and a shallower one running length- 

 wise (north and south), and upon the latter and the 

 walls are the joists, also running east and west ; all the 

 beams and joists have moulded soffits. The fireplace 

 on the west side of the hall contains some 17th- 

 century carving, made up with later work ; the walls 

 of the hall are lined with late 1 6th or early 17th- 

 century panelling ; some of it is set in an irregular 

 fashion. Doorways at the ends give access to the 

 library and billiard-room, and an archway opposite 

 the entrance doorway opens on to the stair hall. The 

 thin wall dividing the hall from the library is evidently 

 a later insertion, but it is covered with the old panel- 

 ling on the hall side. The library has a plain plaster 

 ceiling, which probably conceals some moulded wood- 

 work as in the hall, and a heavy encased wood girder 

 close to the partition would, no doubt, prove to be 

 similar to the others. In the library is a large cup- 

 board front containing some of the original carved 

 late 16th-century oak work in its cornice, &c., made 

 up with more modern woodwork ; it stood formerly 

 against the partition at the south end of the hall. 

 The staircase is late 1 7th-century work ; it has 

 turned balusters, and heavy panelled square newels 

 with shaped heads, and very heavy moulded hand- 

 rail, 8 in. by 7 in. 



The drawing-room on the first floor has a good 

 stone fireplace and chimneypiece in its outer or east 

 wall between the two windows. The opening has a 



flat, four-centred arch, enriched with leaf and rose 

 ornament ; above this is a fluted frieze with roses and 

 portcullises. The rest of the space above this is 

 divided by pilasters into two bays, the lower parts 

 treated as panels with a moulded cornice, and con- 

 taining leaf designs ; the upper parts filled with a 

 large Tudor rose and a portcullis carved in high relief; 

 each is surmounted by a small crown. At the top, 

 close to the ceiling, is carved the date 1 5 86. The 

 whole of the fireplace is decorated with paint, most 

 of it modern, but said to be a restoration of the 

 original colour. The room has modern oak wall 

 lining, and an enriched plaster ceiling of four bays 

 divided by moulded wood beams. In some of the 

 bedrooms on this floor are some 1 7th-century panel- 

 ling and plain old beams, and one of the attic bed- 

 rooms also has some similar panelling below its 

 window. 



Over the porch entrance outside is set a small old 

 stone, carved with a representation of a phoenix, 

 perhaps the mark of an insurance company. 



The grounds and park contain nothing of note. 

 There appears to have been no formal garden about 

 the house, or it has long since disappeared, as also 

 has the ancient dovecot which is mentioned in various 

 old records. 



Beatrice de Fay's portion of Arlington consisted of 

 201. rent and a quarter of a mill. These she granted 

 to the abbey of Wherwell, co. Hants, towards the 

 maintenance of a chaplain to celebrate in the chapel 

 of St. Mary in the little meadow called St. Mary's 

 Garden.* 9 In 12412 the abbess sued her tenants in 

 Arlington for rent. 40 At the time of the surrender 

 of the abbey in November 1539 lands and rent in 

 Arlington were still amongst its possessions." These 

 were leased out by the Crown from time to time, the 

 lessee in 1567 being Michael Kettelwell," and in 

 1595 Sir John Wolley, kt. 4S At this date the lands 

 included ' Millmeade ' in Guildford. Sir John's son 

 Francis Wolley possibly obtained a grant in per- 

 petuity, for he bequeathed his lands in Arlington to 

 ' the maiden child christened by his wife and Mrs. 

 Bridget Weston in Pirford Church by name of Mary 

 Wolley,' with remainder to Sir Arthur Mainwaring. 44 

 The latter was disputing lands called the ' Holy Lands ' 

 in Arlington in 1628 ; they had lalely been ihe 

 properly of Wherwell Abbey, and were claimed by a 

 certain Thomas Tuesley. At this dale ihey included 

 ' an ancienl dwelling-house ' 4S near St. Catherine's Hill, 

 various fields at Artinglon, and one-sixlh of Millmead. 46 

 The eslates have since been broken up, and part 

 has been bought by ihe Wighl family. 



LITTLETON near Loseley Park is a hamlet of 

 Artinglon, and now consists of Orange Court, Orange 

 Court Farm, and a few cottages. Littleton is mentioned 

 in the Domesday Survey as being held by Wulwi the 

 huntsman, who had been in possession of it before the 

 Conquest. 47 Under Edward the Confessor it was 

 assessed for 2 hides and paid no geld, but in 1086 

 it was only assessed for I virgate. In 1218-19 



88 Parish Reg. of St. Nicholas, Guild- 

 ford. 



* Probably the chapel of the Blessed 

 Virgin, with which the Abbess Euphemia 

 inclosed a large space 'which was 

 adorned on the north side with pleasant 

 Tines and trees.' f.C.H, Hants, ii, 133. 

 Egerton MS. 2104 (A), no. 254. 



4 Feet of F. Surr. 26 Hen. Ill, 273, 



274, *79- 



Misc. Bkf. Aug. Off. ccccxiv, 17-21. 



a Enr. of Leases (Aug. Off.), 9 Eliz. 

 R. 4, no. 3. 



48 Partic. for Leases, Surr. 37 Eliz. R. 2, 

 no. 23. 



44 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxxxir, 



5 



60. See under Burpham in Worples- 

 don. 



41 Possibly the house now called the 

 Priory, some of which it very old. 



48 Exch. Spec. Com. 6 Chas. I, no. 

 $666 ; 5 Chas. I, no. 5665 ; Exch. Dep. 

 Mich. 4 Chas. I, 21. 



7 V.C.H. Surr. i, 328*. 



