A HISTORY OF SURREY 



The old manor house is at the west end of the 

 church. It is now called Court Farm from the court 

 baron having been held there. 



The lands of Great and Lesser Smallbrede, Shad- 

 wells and Durcombes are mentioned in another deed 

 of 1622-3." In I 77 Shadwell Field and Upper, 

 Lower, and Little Darkham were included in Hyde 

 Style Farm in the northern part of Hambledon, and 

 Shadwell is an existing name north-west of the 

 farm-house. These seem to be the latter two. 

 Smallbrede was probably adjoining them, and perhaps 

 Great Smallbrede is preserved in what is called the 

 Great House on the right-hand side of the road from 

 Hambledon to Godalming, south of Hyde Style 

 Farm. Smallbrede was on the road, for the Hundred 

 Roll of the Court of 21 September 1340 refers to 

 injury to the via rfgia dt Smallbrede. 



The lord of Hambledon Manor had court baron, 

 and in Manning and Bray's time court leet in ' High 

 Hambledon.' " View of frankpledge and assize of 

 bread and ale were claimed by Robert parson of 

 Hambledon in 12789. He failed to appear and 

 justify his claim, whereupon the Bishop of Salisbury 

 was allowed those liberties as pertaining to his hun- 

 dred of Godalming. 33 As late as 1808 the lord of 

 Godalming Hundred was paid zs. when a court leet 

 was held at Hambledon.* 4 The steward of the bishop 

 regularly held a view of frankpledge at Hambledon on 

 St. Matthew's Day, and tried cases of trespass, assault, 

 failure to maintain highways and bridges, breaking of 

 the assize of bread and ale, &c.* s 



The church of Sr. PETER is a small 

 CHURCH building almost entirely rebuilt in 1846, 

 consisting of nave, with small north aisle 

 and vestry, south porch, and chancel. There is a 

 bell-turret at the west end. It is most picturesquely 

 situated, with very fine views from the churchyard, in 

 which are two splendid yews ; the trunk of the larger, 

 which must be of an immense age, measures about 

 3 oft. in circumference and is hollow. The smaller 

 one measures 1 7 ft. at 5 ft. from the ground. 



Cracklow (1824) describes the old church as con- 

 sisting of a nave and chancel, 'of rough materials, 

 covered partly with tiles, and partly with stone slates,' 

 with ' a small open chapel on the north belonging 

 to the manor, with a gallery on the north sides 

 and another at the west end. The floor of the 

 church is paved with bricks, and the entrance is by a 

 path at the west end ; there is a wooden turret, 

 rising through the roof near the middle of the nave, 

 containing one bell, and surmounted by a small spire 

 covered with shingles. The basin of the font is cut 

 out of a solid block of stone. The style of the 

 architecture affords but few data on which to form 

 any idea of the period of its foundation. The Royal 

 Arms are painted on the shell of a turtle placed over 

 the pulpit, which was presented by the Earl of Rad- 

 nor, patron of the church. Among the monuments 



are some for the family of Hull, of the early date of 

 1489.' 



Cracklow's view, taken from the south-west, shows 

 a porch of timber at the west end, a somewhat lofty 

 nave, with its modern bell-turret nearly central (as in 

 the neighbouring church of Hascombe, before re- 

 building), a square-headed blocked doorway in the 

 south wall, and eastward of it a two-light window, 

 apparently of 13th-century date, beyond which again 

 are two two-light windows, square-headed and 

 probably ' churchwarden ' insertions : one is quite 

 low down in the wall. In the south wall of the 

 chancel is a lancet of 1 3th-century character, probably 

 a low side window. 



The approximate dimensions of the old church were: 

 nave 30 ft. by 1 6 ft., chancel 1 6 ft. by 13 ft., and 

 north chapel 1 6 ft. by 7 ft., and the new church is 

 of about the same size. As might be expected from 

 the date of the rebuilding, the present church has not 

 much to recommend it, but the design is pretty good 

 in parts, and there is a profusion of carving, quite 

 excellent for the period, especially a cornice on the 

 outside of the south wall of the chancel, with 

 minute heads and paterae by the same hand as the 

 restored heads in the wall-arcade of ' the Round ' at 

 the Temple Church, London. 



A good deal of chalk has been used in the interior, 

 especially in the arcade of three arches to the north 

 aisle, and in the chancel arch. The font, octagonal 

 and modern, is a copy of that in Bosham Church, 

 Sussex. The original font appears to have been of 

 1 1 th or 1 2th-century date and to have resembled in 

 design that in the neighbouring church of Alfold. 

 The roofs are modern. 



The 1 7th-century altar-table is now in the vestry, 

 in which also is a deal chest of about the same date. 



The registers date from 1617. 



When the church was rebuilt in 1 846, the then 

 rector, the Rev. E. Bullock, gave a cup, paten, and 

 flagon. The only ancient communion vessel is a 

 small paten with the London hall-marks of 1691. 



There is one bell by William Eldridge, 1705. 



There is no mention of a church 

 JDfOfrSON at Hambledon in the Domesday 

 Survey. A church existed in 1 29 1. 36 

 The lords of the manor presented to it in the I4th cen- 

 tury, and the advowson of the church remained in 

 their possession " till the last William Eliot (who 

 sold the manor to John Walter) granted the presenta- 

 tion to his brother Laurence Eliot. 38 His son 

 Francis Eliot sold it to Lord Folkestone in 176 1. 3 ' 

 It is now in the hands of Lord Radnor, his descendant. 

 Henry Smith's Charity (1627) for 

 CHARITIES the relief of deserving poor exists as 

 in most Surrey parishes. 



Richard Wyatt(l6i8) left money for the mainten- 

 ance of one poor man of the parish in the Carpenters' 

 Almshouse at Godalming. 



81 Harl. Chart. 57, H. 44. 

 81 Hitt. ofSurr. ii, 55. 

 "Plae. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 

 38. 

 84 Manning and Bray, Surf ii, 55. 



85 Hund. R. fattim, preserved at Lose- 

 ley. 



88 Pope Nick. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 208. 



87 William More of Loseley presented 

 in 1568 ; he probably had a lease of the 



advowson. Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. vii, 

 App. 620. 



88 Close, 7 Geo. II, pt. vi, no. i. 



89 Close, I Geo. Ill, no. 6077, sub. 

 no. 5. 



