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Field Place, a small manor-house, shows a most 

 delightful collection of roofs of all sorts of pitches and 

 dispositions, and two good chimneys, one of which 

 has crow-steps to the breast below. Part of the house 

 is built of brick and stone. 



GRAFFHAM GRANGE was an old house held by 

 the abbey of Waverley of Roger de Clare, c. 1238, and 

 inhabited by a family who took their name from it. 

 About that year Walter Giffard, Abbot of Waverley, 

 (1236-51), granted all the rights of the abbey in 

 Graffham to Walter de Graff ham for a rent of 1 6s. a 

 year, still paid to Markwick, a former possession of the 

 abbey, in 1808." 



Elias of Graffham owned a mill in Shalford in the 

 13th century. 45 About 1325 Eleanor widow of 

 John of Graffham signed a bond at Graffham. 46 In 

 I 367 John of Graffham resigned Graffham to his son 

 Hugh. 47 Thomas of Graffham, lojuly 1445, granted 

 all his land in Dunsfold and elsewhere to John Provys 

 and Thomas George. 45 John Elliot died seised of a 

 messuage called ' Graffam ' in 1 640." It passed from 

 the Elliots to the Mellersh family, from whom 

 Mr. Richard Eager bought it in 1803. He sold it to 

 Mr. James Stedman of Guild- 

 ford in 1832. Mr. J. C. 

 McAndrew was the late owner, 

 and it now belongs to Mr. F. A. 

 Shepherd. 



HIGH LOXLET, a farm 

 near Park Hatch, in Has- 

 combe, was in the possession 

 of the Hull family in the 1 6th 

 and I 7th centuries." Thomas 

 Hull conveyed it to John 

 Machell, who sold it in 1682 

 to John Child ; " his grand- 

 son Charles Child is said to 

 have succeeded to it and to 

 have left it to his niece Martha 

 Searle (see Tangley, in Wo- 



nersh). It was purchased in 1770 by Peter Flutter, 

 whose daughter carried it in marriage to John 

 Martyr." 



SMITHBROOK Manor was a possession of the 

 Knights of St. John, 53 and was an appurtenance of 

 their preceptory of Poling, co. Sussex. 54 Queen 

 Elizabeth granted the manor to Edward Wymarke, 65 

 who appears to have sold it to George Austen of 

 Shalford. 56 George Austen died seised of it in 1621 . w 

 From that time it descended with the rectory manor 

 of Shalford (q.v.). 



The church of ST. MART AND 

 CHURCHES ALL S4INTS stands remote from 

 the village on a hillock well elevated 

 above the surrounding country. To the east of the 

 church is the rectory-house, a picturesque gabled and 

 tile-hung structure, probably dating from the 1 5th 

 century. 



The churchyard, approached from the east, is large, 



HULL. Urgent a clie- 

 veron azure bctiveen three 

 demi - lions passant gules 

 with three beeants on the 

 cheveron and a chief ta- 

 ble -with nvo files argent 

 therein. 



and has been extended down the slope of the hill to 

 the south during recent years. Besides other trees it 

 contains two yews, one of which, with a hollow trunk, 

 close by the south porch, is probably one of the most 

 ancient trees in the county. 



The walls are constructed of Bargate stone rubble, 

 of a bright yellow colour in places, with dressings of 

 the same stone, and the mortar joints of the walling 

 are galleted with chips of ironstone in parts ; but this, 

 although an ancient local fashion, may only date from 

 recent restorations, when large parts of the walls were 

 re-faced or re-pointed and some rebuilt. In Crack- 

 low's view they appear as plastered externally. A 

 border of Horsham slabs, with which the entire 

 church was roofed originally, remains on the nave and 

 north transept roofs, but they have mostly been re- 

 placed by tiles. The timber bell-turret, at the west 

 end, and its square spire, are covered with oak 

 shingles. 



Its cruciform plan follows a favourite local type, 

 Cranley, Ewhurst, Witley,Godalming,and St. Martha's 

 chapel being neighbouring examples of cross churches. 

 But in these cases the plan seems to have grown to the 

 cruciform shape, whereas here it would appear to have 

 been designed from the first. The nave is 47 ft. long 

 by 20 ft. 9 in., the chancel (the axis of which inclines 

 to the north) 3 1 ft. 6 in. by 1 6 ft. 3 in., and the 

 transepts, which vary in width between 1 2 ft. 2 in. 

 and 12 ft. 10 in., have the shallow projection of 8 ft. 

 internally. There is a spacious porch on the south 

 of the nave coeval with the church ; and on the north 

 of the chancel vestries and an organ-chamber have 

 been built in modern times. There are original 

 buttresses, two at each angle, except on the east side of 

 the transepts. The west respond of the south transept 

 arch is an entire octagonal column, the obvious 

 assumption being that the intention of the builders 

 abandoned during the progress of the work was to 

 build an aisle on this side instead of a transept. The 

 timber turret at the west end is carried on four huge 

 oak baulks with arched braces, and is probably a 

 1 5th-century addition. 



The date of the entire church is between 1270 

 and 1290, and it is remarkable for being practically 

 all in the one style. If there were an earlier building 

 the place itself is not named in Domesday no 

 trace of it remains in the stonework. About 1304 

 the advowson, which was (as it now is) in the hands 

 of the Crown, was given by Edward I to the hospital 

 of St. Mary at Spital without Bishopsgate, and to this 

 circumstance is doubtless due the erection of the 

 church, and the exceptional beauty and regularity of 

 the work. 58 



The chancel is of two bays, each with a two-light 

 window, in which the lights have trefoiled cusping 

 with a circle over containing a pointed trefoil ; the 

 whole within a pointed inclosing arch, and worked 

 with mouldings on three planes, some parts being 

 exceptionally delicate and rich for country work. This 



** Deeds formerly in possession of Mr. 

 Mellersh of Godalming, quoted by Man- 

 ning and Bray, op. cit. ii, $9. Possibly the 

 rent was included in the advowsons, &c. in 

 Dunsfold belonging to the abbey at the 

 Dissolution. The advowson did not be- 

 long to it. 



Feet of F. Surr. 32 Hen. Ill, 53. 



4 * Deeds quoted by Manning and Bray, 

 op. cit. ii, $9. 



4 ' Ibid. Ibid. 



49 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), mcci, 147. 



* Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 20 Jas. I ; 

 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Mich. 23 Chas. I. 



61 Recov. R. Trin. 14 Chas. II, m. 137; 

 R. of West Bramley quoted by Manning 

 and Bray. 



M According to Manning and Bray, 

 Hist, of Surr. ii, 60. 



M Cott. MS. Claud. E. 6, fol. 143. 



94 



" Ibid. fol. 281. 



65 Pat. 30 Eliz. pt. vii, m. I. 



w See Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 59. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxcvii, 90. 



68 There are points of resemblance be- 

 tween this work and that in Trotton 

 Church, Sussex, and in the transepts of 

 North Stoke Church in the same county, 

 both somewhat elaborate work of about 

 the same date. 



