A HISTORY OF SURREY 



in the hands of William Covert of Slaugham and 

 Harlcombe, who died in 1494- In I 504 his son John 

 Covert died seised of the manor of Imbhams in 

 Haslemere, Chiddingfold and Alfold, held of the 

 Bishop of Salisbury." H is heir was his cousin Richard, 

 from whom it went to John's nephew Giles, who 

 held at the time of the survey of Godalming made 

 by Edward VI, and died in 1557," holding of the 

 Crown, which then held the bishop's manor of Godal- 

 ming. He was succeeded by his brother Richard. 

 He was father of Antony Covert, father of John and 

 An tony, all of whom held it." John conveyed to Antony 

 in 1625, the conveyance including the pond which 

 supplied the water for the Quenells' iron furnace 

 called Imbhams." The Coverts sold to Peter Quenell 

 the elder in \6zj. K , 



Quenell had already acquired SOUTH IMBHAMS, 

 the other moiety, which went with the Bures portion 

 of Loseley, probably to the Strodes, who had land in 

 Chiddingfold, 47 and so to the Westbrooks. John 

 Westbrook was lord of the manor of Imbhams alias 

 Southymbhams, in 1492, and granted land which had 

 escheated to him as lord. When he sold Loseley to 

 Sir Christopher More he did not convey the manor 

 of South Imbhams 48 specifically, and it continued in 

 his family. He died in 1513, and his son William 

 in 1537. His heirs were his sister Florence Scarlett, 

 widow, and Elizabeth wife of Edward Hull. John, 

 grandson of the former, sold his moiety of South 

 Imbhams to Thomas Quenell in I568. 49 Thomas 

 left it, subject to his wife's life interest, to his brother 

 Robert Quenell in 1571, and Scarlett levied a fine to 

 Robert Quenell in I576. 50 



Thomas Hull, son of Elizabeth Hull, had sold his 

 share to the same Robert Quenell in 1574." This 

 Robert was father to Peter, who acquired the other 

 part of Imbhams, vide supra, in 1626. The Quenells 

 were ironmasters, and Peter, a Royalist, cast guns for 

 the king at Imbhams as long as he was allowed." He 

 died in 1 649. His son Peter served in the king's army, 

 and also borrowed money. He died in 1666. Peter 

 Quenell his son held a court in 1669, but under 

 an arrangement to satisfy his father's debts sold 

 with his mother's concurrence in 1677 to Thomas 

 Newton and William Yalden." The latter took the 

 manor and held a court in 1 679. He died in 1 740, 

 aged 91. His son William died in 1742, leaving a 

 son William who died in 1796. He had a daughter 

 Elizabeth, wife of Ralph Bennet, and two other 

 daughters. The trustees of the estate sold it to 

 George Oliver of Brentford in 1797. His son 

 George died at a great age after 1 870, and the manor 

 was sold to the late Mr. James Stewart Hodgson of 

 Lythe Hill, Haslemere, whose widow died in 1907. 



William Yalden the younger was of ' the New- 

 house,' since known as the Manor House. The old 

 manor house is a moated farm of the 1 6th century. 



The church of ST. BARTHOLO- 



CHURCH MEW is embowered in trees, among 



which the grey stone tower with stone- 



slated roof has a more venerable aspect than is war- 

 ranted by its actual age. The churchyard, which is 

 extremely pretty and well kept, abounds in choice 

 shrubs and trees, and has a great number of old and 

 new monuments. Professor Tyndall lies here, but 

 under a gorse and heather-covered mound, without 

 stone or other memorial. 



The church was originally only a chapel-of-ease to 

 Chiddingfold. The tower at the west end is practic- 

 ally all that remains of ancient date, and there is reason 

 to suppose that this goes no further back than the 

 middle of the I7th century. The nave, north aisle, 

 and chancel, after having been greatly altered about 

 1837, were partly rebuilt in 1870-1, a south aisle 

 being added at the same time. The style in which 

 the new work was designed is that of the middle of 

 the 1 3th century. When the rebuilding took place a 

 number of the older gravestones were built into the 

 walls inside and out. There is a good deal of modern 

 glass of varying merit, including a two-light window 

 designed by the late Sir Edward Burne-Jones to the 

 memory of the poet Tennyson, its subject being Sir 

 Galahad and the Holy Grail. Some old glass said to 

 have been brought out of Kent by the Rev. M. San- 

 derson at the end of the 1 7th century has been re- 

 distributed, part being in the west window of the tower, 

 and the rest in the west window of the north aisle ; 

 originally the whole was in the east window of the 

 chancel. A writer in the Gentleman's Magazine for 

 1 80 1 gives the subjects as follows : 



' I. St. Matthew. 2. Our Saviour's Ascension. 

 3. St. Mark. 4. Adam and Eve in Paradise. 5. The 

 Nativity. 6. Noah going into the Ark. 7. St. Luke. 

 8. Saul thrown from his horse, and his attendants 

 offering him assistance : " Savl, Savl, qvid persecv'is 

 me ? " 9. Offering of the Wise Men. Among the 

 numerous presents, I distinguished some fine hams, 

 poultry and mutton. 10. St. John.' 



The same writer describes the nave as ' separated 

 from the transept [i.e. aisle] by four pointed arches 

 resting on low round pillars, part of a wooden 

 screen remaining under the chancel arch. The font 

 is a large octagonal stone supported on a pillar corre- 

 sponding with it. On one of the bells is inscribed, 

 " Peace and good neighbourhood." ' 



Another writer says 54 of the arcade between the 

 nave and north aisle, ' the pillars that support the 

 arches are of oak, and of large dimensions.' Mr. J. W. 

 Penfold, an old resident, in giving his recollections 

 of the church as he remembers it ' in the early days 

 of William IV,' says ; ' The north aisle was separated 

 from the nave by huge oak pillars, with heavy carved 

 ribs or struts forming arches to support the low roof, 

 and much obscuring the view into the nave. . . About 

 1 837 the oak pillars were removed, and neat fluted 

 iron columns were substituted.' " 



From Cracklow's view of 1823 it would seem prob- 

 able that the old nave and chancel retained features 

 of 1 3th-century date, but that the building had been 

 greatly altered in the 1 6th and following centuries. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxxi, 263. 

 48 Ibid, cxiv, 42. 



44 Feet of F. SUIT. Hil. 14 Jas. I; Chan. 

 Proc. Elir. H.h. vi, 60. 



45 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 22 Jas. I. 



46 Ibid. East. 2 Chas. J, and East. 4 

 Cha". I. 



4 ' Strode Deeds at Loseley, q.v. 

 43 Add. Chart. 13557. See Loseley. 

 Imbhams was included in the marriage 



settlement of William More in 1551 

 (Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 5 Edw. VI). It 

 was probably an overlordship attaching to 

 Loseley, merged in the general overlord- 

 ship acquired by the Mores in the whole 

 hundred and manor of Godalming by 

 grant in 1601. 



49 Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 18 Eliz. m. 



43- 



50 Feet of F. Surr. East. 18 Eliz. 



4 8 



"Ibid. Hil. 1 7 Eliz. 



M For an account of the Quenell family 

 see Surr. Arcb. Coll. xv, 40. 



68 Chan. Decree, 3 July 27 Chas. II, 

 790, no. 13. 



64 Gent. Mag. 1802, pt. ii, 817, 8 1 8. 



65 Preface to Haslemere and Hir.dhcad, 

 in the 'Homeland Handbooks' series. 

 This timber arcade was the only one of 

 ancient date in Surrey. 



