A HISTORY OF SURREY 



contingent remainder to Wolley Leigh. 61 Wolley 

 Leigh died seised of the reversion of this portion of 

 the manor, 61 his grandmother Bridget Minterne and 

 his father Sir Francis Leigh being still alive, and of 

 the other half on his father's death. 



Sir Thomas Leigh, Wolley Leigh's son apparently, 

 dealt with one moiety only 

 in 1 66 1, 63 and again in i66f,. M 

 Sir Thomas Leigh died in 

 1677, leaving a son Sir John 

 Leigh, bart. He was suc- 

 ceeded about 1692 by his son 

 Sir John Leigh, born 1681, 

 married 1700, and in 1703 

 a recovery was suffered by Sir 

 John to Sir Stephen Lennard, 

 father of his son's wifi." He 

 died in 1 737. The recovery 

 probably barred the entail, 

 and Shoelands is not specifi- 

 cally mentioned in the last Sir John's will. 



The other moiety was apparently sold to John 

 Caryll of Tangley, whose son-in-law Henry Ludlow 

 was in possession in l695. 66 It descended in his 

 family till 1767, when the whole manor apparently 

 was part of the property assigned to Giles Strangways. 67 

 He sold it to the tenant, Francis Simmonds, whose 

 grandson Thomas, a yeoman farmer, was the owner in 

 i8o6. M In 1823 he sold to Mr. E. H. Long, and 

 the property has passed, as Puttenham, to Mr. Mow- 

 bray Howard. Thomas Packington, who has been 

 described as an owner, was merely a tenant about 



LEIGH. Or a cheveron 

 sable 'with three lions ar- 

 gent thereon. 



Shoelands House bears the date 1616 or 1618 over 

 the porch. The date has been replaced after removal. 

 The house was therefore partly built by William Min- 

 terne or his son-in-law Sir Francis Leigh, or by Thomas 

 Packington (of Shoelands in Visitation of 1623). It 

 has a fine mullioned window, blocked now, to the 

 south, an old chimney-stack on the same side, and a 

 Jacobean staircase with good carving of about the 

 same date. This work probably marks a rebuilding 

 of an older house, when the 

 staircase was put in to reach 

 rooms built over an old high 

 hall the rafters of which are 

 visible in one place in the wall 

 of an upper room. 



There are no mills given in 

 the survey of Rodsell 70 in 1 086, 

 though there are five given 

 under Bramley. 71 In 1587 

 there were no fewer than four 

 mills in Puttenham Priory, 72 

 and about the same time there 

 was one water-mill in Putten- 

 ham Bury Manor." This may 

 have been Cutt Mill, which 

 was afterwards in the possession 

 of Francis and Richard Wyatt. 74 



The family of Frollebury seems to have been of 

 some importance in Puttenham during Jhe 131)1 and 

 I4th centuries. In 1296 William Frollebury and 

 his wife Joan had two messuages and land there, 

 which they held of Thomas son of William Frolle- 

 bury. 76 Stephen Frollebury and his wife Katharine 

 held the same land in 1 340." Frollesbury is an 

 existing house in Puttenham. 



The church of ST. JOHN THE 

 CHURCH BAPTIST stands high above the road, 

 the ground rising in steep banks round 

 it on the south and east. The churchyard, which is 

 bordered on the south by a low wall and the grounds 

 of the manor-house (commonly called Puttenham 

 Priory) has some fine trees and shrubs, and is carefully 

 kept. 



The building is of local sandstone rubble with dress- 

 ings of hard chalk, mostly replaced on the outside by 

 Bath stone ; parts of the north aisle and the chancel are 

 plastered, and the roofs are tiled. In plan the church 

 consists of a long and very narrow nave 5 2 ft. 3 in. 

 by 1 6 ft. 9 in., and chancel 29 ft. 2 in. by 1 2 ft. 6 in.; 

 these probably representthe extent of theearly church. 763 

 On the north of the nave is an aisle about 7 ft. wide, 

 opening to the nave by an arcade of four arches, repre- 

 senting the first extension in the latter part of the 1 2th 

 century : and on the north of the chancel is a chapel 

 29 ft. 7 in. by I 3 ft. 6 in., partly opened to the chan- 

 cel by a pair of small arches an addition of about 

 1 200. 



At the eastern end of the south side of the nave 

 is a transeptal chapel, 1 2 ft. square, added about 

 1330 ; and the west tower, very large and massive 

 in proportion to the church, dates from the early 

 part of the I jth century. The south porch in its 

 present form is modern, dating from the general re- 

 storation of the building in 1 86 1. The north chapel 

 seems to have been largely rebuilt at the beginning of 

 the igth century. 



Judging by the different levels of the arcade bases, 

 which increase in height from west to east, the ancient 

 floor of the nave must have been laid on an inclined 



PUTTENHAM : SHOELANDS MANOR HOUSE 



61 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxxxviii, 

 125. 6S Ibid, mxxiv, i. 



68 Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 13 

 Cha. II. 



"Ibid. Trin. 17 Chas. II. 



85 Recov. R. Hil. 2 Anne. 



< Feet of F. SUIT. East. 7 Will. III. 



8 ' For detailed descent see under Bram- 



68 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 

 19. 



Chan. Proc. 1621-5 (Ser. i), bdle. 

 364, no. 1 6. 



V V.C.H. Surr. i, 301*. 



1* Ibid. 3010. 



T 5 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 29 Eliz. Not 

 necessarily separate buildings, but possibly 

 four separate mill-stones. 



56 



7 Harl. Chart, in, E. 25. 



1* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxiii, 

 90 ; mxxiv, 34. 



" 5 Feet of F. Surr. 24 Edw. I, 3. 



7'Ibid. 13 Edw. Ill, 1 6. 



? te Cf. the plan of the neighbouring 

 church of Compton, where the nucleus of 

 a pre-Conquest plan has survived through 

 later alterations. 



