BLACKHEATH HUNDRED 



CRANLEIGH 



wards Sir John Morgan. 67 He sold it m 1614 to Sir 

 Edward Onslow, 68 in whose family it remained till 

 1815, when it was sold to Mrs. Sarah Shurlock of 

 Bramley. She died before 1821, and her daughter 

 and heiress married Mr. Charles Hemming of Dorset- 

 shire. 69 Mr. Walter Hemming sold Utworth in 1889 

 to the late Sir Edward Carbutt. The house is now 

 inhabited by the bailiff of Lady Carbutt's estate at 

 Nanhurst. 



RTE FARM, if we may conclude that it was the 

 tenement known as ' la Ree,' was released in 1 394 

 by John grandson of Walter at Ree to John Reding- 

 hurst/ In 1406-7 it was the dower of Tiffania 

 widow of John Redinghurst." It was conveyed to 

 Robert Harding with Knowle Manor." 



NANHURST (Knauenhurst, xiv cent.), part of 

 Vachery, 7 * was rented by Edmund Constantin of 

 Robert Redinghurst in 1303." It belonged at one 

 time to Lord Onslow, but was for sale in 1778. It 



gate of stone erected as a memorial in 1880. The 

 boundaries of the churchyard have been greatly ex- 

 tended within the last half-century, to meet the 

 growth in population. 



The church is built of ironstone rubble and con- 

 glomerate, with a little Bargate rubble, and with 

 dressings of Bargate stone and clunch, the modern 

 portions being in the same stone with Bath stone 

 dressings. A good deal of the old walling is plastered 

 externally. The roofs are still in part covered with 

 Horsham slabs, and the quaint conical roof of the 

 tower, with a gablet at the apex from which rises the 

 weathercock, is shingled. The nave roof is old and 

 of oak, but the roofs of the aisles, transepts, vestry, 

 and chancel, are modern, and chiefly of stained deal, 

 those of the aisles being of wretched and flimsy con- 

 struction. The modern porch (1862) is of oak. 

 Few Surrey churches have suffered more barbarous ill- 

 treatment under the name of ' restoration ' than this. 



PLAN OF CRANLEIGH CHURCH 



was part of the estate of the late Sir Edward 

 Carbutt, bart. The tenement called Furshulle, or 

 Freeswell (xix cent.), also part of Vachery, granted to 

 Walter at How and William Clynon in I 303," was 

 settled by the latter on his son Henry, 76 while Henry 

 at How granted to Walter at How two crofts and a 

 messuage in Furshullshamme in 1337." 



The church of ST. NICHOLAS stands 

 CHURCH picturesquely on rising ground, backed 

 by beautiful old trees. The well-kept 

 churchyard has an exceptionally fine cedar and other 

 trees, besides two yews, one near the chancel, of great 

 antiquity, and is approached through a modern lych- 



Very few are built on such spacious lines. The 

 tower is unusually large, almost a square of 20 ft. 

 internally, with walls 3ft. 9 in. thick, and very mas- 

 sive buttresses ; the nave is slightly wider, and 36 ft. 

 in length ; the transepts are about 1 6 ft. in width 

 (they have been lengthened in modern times), and 

 the chancel is about 34 ft. long by 20 ft. wide. Its 

 axis inclines about 5 degrees to the north of east. 

 Both nave and chancel are exceptionally lofty, the 

 walls of the former being about 30 ft. in height. 

 The present timber south porch is modern a memo- 

 rial to Jacob Ellery and the vestry and organ-cham- 

 ber on the north side of the chancel are also modern, 



Chan. Inq. p.m.(Scr. 2), cclxxxi, 85. Chart. 7631, in which William at Ree it 

 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 1 1 Jas. I. itated to have land called Church land' 



Dr^ila firrtft \AfUura \X7\\itf\n\r Xr T'ir_ in C"rtr, \m\nV, 



69 Deeds ftnes Messrs. Whatelcy & Bar- 

 low, Godalming. 



"Add. Chart. 7604; ee alio Add. 



in Cranleigh. 

 7 1 Ibid. 7603. 

 7' Clote, 21 Edw. IV, m. 9. 



8 9 



7> Onslow Deeds. 

 1* Add. Chart. 7613. 

 ' Ibid. 5939. 

 ' Ibid. 5940. 

 " Ibid. 7602. 



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