A HISTORY OF SURREY 



out to a narrow chamfered edge, without rebate or 

 groove for glazing. The rough plaster of the splays 

 is cut into patterns round the circular internal head, 

 such as zigzag, fret, and saw-tooth ; Ki and both on the 

 plastering and stonework are painted well-preserved 

 coeval patterns in red and white. The somewhat 

 later transept windows are not so ornamented. In 

 the south wall of the south transept is a 1 2th-century 

 piscina and the remains of what may have been 

 sedilia. 



In the west wall of the south transept is the arch 

 of 1 1 90, with characteristic mouldings and a slightly 



PAINTED DECORATION IN GODALMING CHURCH 



incised cheveron ornament on the bell of one of its 

 capitals. The two eastern arches of the north and 

 louth nave arcades are set upon unusually lofty piers, 

 those on the south being circular, while the north are 

 octagonal, an alteration of later, date. The north and 

 south arches of the tower are perfectly plain, and 

 possibly a little earlier. 



The nave roof is ancient the eastern part perhaps 

 even of I 3th-century date but the flat panelled ceil- 

 ing added in the reign of Henry VII was in 1 840 turned 

 into one of canted shape ; the old painted shields, 

 bearing local and other coats of arms, which were 

 fixed at the ir tersection of the ribs of the panel- 

 ling, were preserved and re-used in the new work. 

 Similar wooden shields, displaying general and local 

 heraldry, initials of benefactors, &c., existed up to the 

 same date in the south chantry and the adjoining 

 transept. In both transepts, in the south chapel, 

 and in the main chancel, are ancient roofs, parts of 

 which may be as old as the I 2th or 1 3th century, 

 but with considerable reconstruction at different dates. 

 The south chapel roof has somewhat elaborate mould- 

 ings on many of its timbers, of very much later date. 

 This roof was always a span roof ; but that of the 

 north chapel, prior to 1 840, when the extension took 

 place, was a lean-to, as was also that of the north 

 aisle of the nave. 



Among smaller features may be noted the early 

 14th-century sedilia, piscina, and aumbry in the south 

 wall of the chancel; the early 13th-century piscina 

 and aumbry in the north chapel ; and the unusually 

 large double piscina, with two aumbries over, in the 

 south chapel of the same date. The two piscinae are 

 divided by a small octagonal shaft with cap and base. 

 Beneath these is an altar-tomb of marble on chalk 

 and brick base, 236 and a disused font also of late charac- 

 ter and quite plain. 



In the same south chapel, on the partly unblocked 

 splays of the destroyed lancets, are some very valuable 

 and well-preserved fragments of painting, coeval with 

 the lancets themselves (c. 1200). These, which are 

 somewhat elaborately executed in several colours, show 

 figures of about life-size within trefoil-headed canopies. 

 On the east splay of the easternmost lancet on the 

 south side St. John the Baptist is shown, with hairy 

 mantle, and bearing a disc on which is the Agnus 

 Dei. Having been covered up from about half a 

 century after the date of execution until 1879, these 

 paintings are exceptionally well preserved. It is said 

 that in 1 840 many others, on the general wall surfaces, 

 were uncovered only to be destroyed. 



Aubrey mentions one or two coats of arms in the 

 glazing of the chancel and south chantry windows, in- 

 cluding those of England and France, but these no 

 longer exist. There is a part of a lion, or, in the 

 east window of the south chancel, and a rose with 

 diamond quarters in the north transept. 



A very large and solid oak chest, of the same date 

 as the chantry, 5 ft. 7 in. by I ft. 9^ in. and 2 ft. 4 in. 

 high, has lately been placed here. It belongs to the 

 pin-hinge group of the 1 3th century, and has a 

 pierced quadrant to the standards, and a money- 

 hutch inside with a secret well below. 137 A good 

 oak railing, which formerly fenced three sides of the 

 sacrarium, was removed in 1867, and parts of it 

 used as stair balusters in a house known as the 

 ' Square.' 



The pulpit is Elizabethan. There are two com- 

 munion tables ; one of Elizabethan or Jacobean date, 

 which formerly had extending leaves, now stands in 

 the north chancel, cruelly mangled to suit modern 

 taste, and concealed by upholstery ; the other, a good 

 but more modern table, has now been placed in the 

 vestry. 



Besides the altar tomb above mentioned, there are 

 no monuments of importance,* 373 and, what is rather 

 surprising in a church of this size and antiquity, prac- 

 tically none of pre-Reformation date. In the chancel 

 are brasses to Thomas Purvoch and wife, 1 509, and 

 John Barker,! 595, in armour; and there are slabs, some 

 with brass plates, escutcheons, and carved armorial 

 bearings. The inscriptions to Thomas and Isabella 

 Westbrook no longer exist, but the old family of the 

 Eliots of Busbridge are largely represented : and on 

 the south side of the chancel is an alabaster and black 

 marble tablet, with a kneeling figure, to Judith Eliot, 

 wife of William Eliot, 1615. The inscription is of 



^ Similar to the cut plaster edges at 

 Compton Church in this neighbour- 

 hood. 



988 To John Westbrook 'Squyer' and 

 Elizabeth his wife, as recorded in Manning 

 and Bray's Surrey : the brass inscription strip 

 and coats of arms are now missing, as is 

 also a monument to William Westbrook 



of the same family (to whom the south 

 chantry belonged), dated 1437, according 

 to Symmes's MS. The inscription, quoted 

 in Mr. Welman's book, reads like one of 

 a century later, and describes the deceased 

 as ' Catholike of Faith.' Vidt sufra, note 

 207. 



"'This chest closely resembles others 



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of the same date and class at Rogate and 

 Bosham churches, Sussex ; all described 

 and illustrated in the Arch. Journ. Ixiv, 

 243 -306, and in Surr. Arch., Coll. xx, 

 68-89. 



M ' a This is owing to the fact that the 

 lords of the hundred and manor were 

 absentees. 



