A HISTORY OF SURREY 



consisting of interlaced squares and circles, has been 

 brought to view. The narrow, winding street, the 

 irregular roof-lines and overhanging stories, with this 

 beautiful piece of detail in the foreground, make the 

 whole corner a delightful study. 



Very different in character, but equally valuable to 

 the lover of old domestic architecture, are the elabor- 

 ately ornamented brick fronts of I jth-century date in 

 the High Street. As Mr. Ralph Nevill, F.S.A., 

 observes, ' They are good examples of how to treat 

 rough stone with brick dressings, and are of a more 

 graceful and fanciful character than the later work 

 when affected by the intrusion of Dutch taste under 

 William III.' " One of these has, in an oval panel, 

 the date 1663, and very elaborate cornices of cut 

 brick. This retains also its mullioned windows, with 

 ornamental casement glazing. Another, also of local 

 stone, with cut brick dressings and brick panel-work, 

 has good curved and pedimental gables. 



Besides these specially valuable examples there are 

 numerous specimens of the sober brick houses of the 

 1 8th century, with excellent plain details both inside 

 and out. 



On the high ground to the north-west of the town 

 stand the buildings of Charterhouse School, which 

 was moved here from its old 

 home in London in 1872. 

 The main block, designed by 

 Hardwick, is built round three 

 sides of a great court open 

 to the west, called Founder's 

 Court, with the chapel on the 

 south, the head master's house, 

 ' Saunderites,' on the north, 

 and a tall tower with a spire, 

 Founder's Tower, on the east, 

 flanked on the north by the 

 school museum and part of the 

 old foundation scholars' house, 

 ' Gownboys,' and on the south 

 by the other part of the same 

 house. An archway under 



Founder's Tower opens to the south walk of an 

 arcaded cloister, Scholars' Court, leading directly to 

 the west door of the school library, a fine room flanked 

 by classrooms on the north and south, and opening 

 on the east to a great hall, also flanked by classrooms, 

 built in 1885 from the designs of Sir A. Blomfield. 

 The cloister walk already mentioned is crossed at right 

 angles by two other walks, one running at the back of 

 the east block of the great court, and leading north- 

 wards to ' Saunderites,' and southwards through 

 ' Gownboys,' to another passage which ends in a lobby 

 east of the chapel, and a second walk near the west 

 end of the library, leading to a block of classrooms on 

 the north, and to the east end of the passage just 

 mentioned on the south. South of this passage is a 

 third house, ' Verites,' forming the south front of the 

 group of buildings, which are collectively known as 

 'Block.' To the west and south of 'Block 'lie the 

 cricket and football grounds, with ' Crown,' the school 

 pavilion, on the east, and the fives and tennis courts on 

 the west. From Founder's Court a road leads west- 

 ward down the hill past the rifle range to the racket 

 courts and swimming baths, and beyond them to the 

 River Wey, and the school bathing-place. The main 



CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL. 

 Or a cheveron between 

 three rings gules 'with 

 three crescents argent on 

 the cheveron, which are 

 the arms of Sutton, the 

 founder. 



approach to the school from Godalming is by a road 

 running up the valley between Frith Hill on the east 

 and Charterhouse Hill on the west, which turning on 

 itself passes westward over a bridge and reaches the 

 level top of the hill on which ' Block ' stands just to 

 the south-east of the great Hall. To the north is one 

 of the outhouses as distinguished from those in 

 ' Block ' ' Girdlestoneites,' with a group of classrooms 

 and workrooms near it on the north-west, and 

 to the south of the road is another house, ' Weeklies.' 

 The remaining houses of the school lie to the east and 

 south, standing picturesquely among their trees and 

 gardens on the slopes of the hill. 



A few relics from the old buildings in London 

 were transplanted to Godalming in 1872, notably the 

 arch of entrance to the old schoolrooms, carved all over 

 with names of bygone Carthusians, which being placed 

 in the lobby east of the chapel, together with a number 

 of other similarly adorned stones, has caused a con- 

 tinuance of the custom of name cutting, and all the 

 walls of the lobby are covered with names, singly or 

 in groups, of those who from time to time have made 

 their mark in the school. 



The general arrangement of the various houses is 

 fairly uniform, consisting of a ' hall ' for the use of the 

 upper boys, and a ' long room,' in ' Gownboys,' called 

 ' writing school,' for the juniors, separate studies for 

 the upper boys, and long dormitories with cubicles. 

 In the halls are panels with the names of monitors 

 and those who have represented the school in cricket, 

 football, &c. 



The chapel is a simple rectangle in plan, with a 

 central passage and rows of seats facing towards it on 

 the north and south, a south aisle at a higher level 

 than the chapel proper, a west organ gallery and lobby, 

 with canopied stalls on the east, and a south-west 

 tower, under which is the main entrance. A cloister 

 has lately been added on the south in memory of 

 Dr. W. Haig-Brown, for many years head master, and 

 is now filled with brass tablets and other memorials. 



The library, originally a big schoolroom, contains 

 a valuable collection of books, drawings, and pictures, 

 and there are a number of pictures in the Great 

 Hall, and the ' Orator ' and ' Gold Medallist ' boards 

 from Old Charterhouse. The uses of ' Hall,' which 

 is separated from ' Library ' by a movable wooden 

 partition, are many and various, such as concerts, 

 rifle corps drill, examinations, prize-givings, ' call over,' 

 and the like. 



Of late years, a new museum, surrounded by class- 

 rooms, and new science classrooms have been built, and 

 a wooden building with a central hall and classrooms 

 at either end, familiarly called ' Barn,' has been taken 

 down and set up again on a new site, to be used as a 

 music-room. To former generations of Carthusians 

 it chiefly recalls memories of a dreary ceremony known 

 as 'extra school.' 



The playing fields have been greatly extended in 

 the last twenty years. ' Green,' south of the main 

 buildings of the school, is devoted to school matches 

 and first eleven cricket, while ' Big Ground,' west of 

 the chapel, holds the same position in regard to foot- 

 ball. On ' Under Green ' are eight cricket grounds, 

 rather close together, and on ' Lessington ' are five 

 football grounds. And there are a number of other 

 grounds besides. 



11 Ralph Nevill, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., Cottage and Damatic Architecture of South-vilest Surr. (ed. z), 4.7 



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