A HISTORY OF SURREY 



of massive oak timbers. The chancel roof, of rafters, 

 collars and struts, has large moulded plates and tie- 

 beams excessively cambered, and is perhaps of 14th- 

 century date. 



The font, seating, quire stalls, and other fittings are 

 all modern, and a very large organ, bracketed out 

 overhead, blocks up the narrow chancel. 77 The altar 

 is well raised, as, owing to the site, there are four steps 

 between the sacrarium and the nave. 



In the chancel is the small brass of a priest in mass 

 vestments inscribed : ' Hie jacet dns Edward' Cranford' 

 quonda' Rector isti' Ecclie'. qui obijt viij die mens' 

 August! Anno dm MillO. cccc. xxxj cui' aie p'piciet' 

 deus. Amen.' 



In the north chapel is a small stone with indents of 

 man and wife and the brass inscription below ; the 

 date may be about '1504"": 'Hie jacent Ricardus 

 Lussher et Etheldreda uxor ejus quorum animabus 

 propicietur Deus. 1 



Also a large slab of Sussex marble bearing in Roman 

 capitals the inscription : ' Hie jacet sepultn corpus 

 dominse Dorotheae unius filiarum JohfS Hunt de 

 lindon in Com. Rutland armigeri nup' uxoris charis- 

 simae Nicholai Lussher militis cui quatuor pep'it filios 

 totidemque puellas nempe Ricardn, Gulielmfi Nichos 

 laO, Mariam et AnnS adhuc superstites JohaTIem 

 Janam et JohSnam, in cunabilis defunctos, et de hac 

 vita decessit 1 8 Feb : 1 604 orans ut ignoscat ei peccata 

 sua Omnipotens et Misericors Dominus.' 



Aubrey gives another inscription as existing in his 

 day on a slab in the north chapel to Nicholas Lusher 

 of Shoeland, esq., son and heir of Robert Lusher, 

 who died in 1566. 



There is also a small brass, with the arms of Wyatt 

 impaling Burrell, to Francis Wyatt, 1634, now set ' n a 

 marble slab on the chancel wall ; it came from a stone 

 in the middle of the north chapel, which formed the 

 burial spot of the Wyatts of Rodsell. 



Fixed to the sill of the westernmost window of the 

 chancel is an oblong brass plate, with an inscription 

 to the memory of Henry Beedell and his son Henry, 

 both rectors of Puttenham, who died respectively in 

 1636 and 1692. Besides these there are one or two 

 ledgers bearing heraldry and some marble tablets 

 of more recent dates. 



The registers date from 1562. 



The only ancient pieces of church plate a silver 

 cup and paten, dated respectively 1636 and 1674, are 

 of interest from their association with the Beedells, 

 father and son. The paten is known to have been 

 given by the son, ' who gave back to the church the 

 alienated or chantry lands which his father, the pre- 

 ceding rector, had purchased. Perhaps he also gave 

 the cup." 7b 



The bells are all modern. 



There was no church here at the 



ADVQWSQN time of the Domesday Survey so far as 



is known. The advowson probably be- 



longed subsequently to the lord of the manor. The 

 king seems to have possessed it before 1305, when he 

 granted it with Shalford, Wonersh, and Dunsfold 

 churches to the Hospital of St. Mary without Bishops- 

 gate. 78 In 1342 the prior and brethren of the hospital 

 had licence to appropriate the churches of Puttenham 

 and Dunsfold, 79 but apparently the appropriation was 

 never carried out, for the living was a rectory in 1535. 

 The annual pension due from the rectory at this time 

 was 2O/. 80 In 1537 Thomas Elliott obtained a lease 

 of this pension together with Shalford rectory for 

 ninety-nine years. 81 St. Mary without Bishopsgate 

 was taken into the king's hand at the time of the Dis- 

 solution, but when Queen Elizabeth granted Shalford 

 Rectory to John Wolley 81 she retained the advowson 

 of Puttenham, which has ever since belonged to the 

 Crown. In 1694 Thomas Swift, Jonathan Swift's 

 ' little parson cousin,' became rector. 



Richard Lusher presented the parsonage to the 

 church. His gift consisted of a house, garden, and croft 

 lying on ' Gildowne,' and half an acre of land at Rods- 

 mill (Rodsell) in a field called the ' Pece.' They were 

 given to the parson on condition that he should sing 

 or say thirty masses yearly in the parish church, and also 

 a Placebo and Dirige on Thursday before the Nativity 

 of the Virgin Mary (September S). 83 After the sup- 

 pression of chantries by Edward VI these premises 

 were leased by the king to Henry Foisted and William 

 More. No provision seems to have been made for 

 the parsonage till Henry Beedell, rector early in the 

 1 7th century, bought back the parsonage, which his 

 son Henry, who succeeded his father as rector, gave 

 to the parish, 84 confirming the gift in his will. 84 The 

 two Henry Beedells, father and son, held the living 

 from 1598 to 1692. 



Manning and Bray quote a will in the Archdeacon's 

 office, by which a certain Stephen Burdon, an inn- 

 keeper of Southwark in 1503, directed 61. 8d. to be 

 paid for an image of St. Roke to be given to Putten- 

 ham Church. 86 



In 1725 the return was that there was no chapel, 

 no lecturer, no curate, no Papist, one Quaker, no 

 gentleman, ' nor any school but what teaches children 

 to read and write.' 86a 



The charities are Smith's Charity, 

 CHARITIES founded 1627 for the relief of the 

 deserving poor, and a small sum em- 

 ployed in the same way from the rent of the golf-links. 



Mr. Richard Wyatt, 1619, left two nominations to 

 the Carpenters' Company's Almshouses at Godalming 

 to this parish. 



Mr. Robert Avenell, 1733, left money with a trus- 

 tee for the relief of the deserving poor, but this seems 

 to have disappeared. 



In 1725, in answer to Bishop Willis's Visitation, the 

 churchwardens returned that there were rents of about 

 4 from lands called the Church Lands applied to the 

 relief of the poor. 



77 The present font is the successor 

 of that described in Manning and Bray's 

 Surr. as 'of a square form, of free- 

 itone.' 



77" Richard Lusher' s will was proved 

 1504; P.C.C. Holgrave, ig. 



" b Rev. T. S. Cooper, in Surr. Arch. 

 Coll. x, 343. 



7 s Chart. R. 33 Edw. I, m. 49. 



7 Cal. Pat. 1340-3, p. 410. 



8 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 28. 



81 Misc. Bks.(Land Rev.), vol. 1 90, p.i68. 



ra Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. 17. 



M Partic. of Sales of Colleges, Misc. Bks. 

 (Aug. Off.), vol. 68, p. 56. 



84 Monumental inscription in Putten- 

 ham Church. 



85 Proved 20 July 1693. 

 88 Hist, of Surr. ii, 20 

 86a Willis' Visitation. 



