A HISTORY OF SURREY 



whose son and heir William entered upon it in 

 1405-6, and died in 1456, before which date he is 

 said to have sold it to William Sydney of Loseley. 71 

 It was evidently divided between the two daughters 

 of William son of William Sydney ; of these, the one, 

 Anne, married William Uvedale, and the other, Eliza- 

 beth, married John Hampden. 71 The njanor was 

 divided in moieties, whence doubtless arose the names 

 EAST and WEST POLLINGFOLD. The Ufedale 

 anoiety, East Pollingfold, chiefly in Ewhurst, was 

 .alienated by Anne n to Sir Edward Bray and others 

 in I528. 74 He had already purchased Elizabeth 

 Hampden's moiety, or West Pollingfold, and Baynards 

 from his brother Edmund Lord Bray," whose uncle 

 Reginald, to whom Edmund was heir, or whose father, 

 John, had apparently purchased it from Michael Dor- 

 mer, to whom Sir John Hampden had conveyed it in 

 I52O, 76 and thus the manor was reunited, but not for 

 long. In 1581 Sir Edward sold the manor of 

 Pollingfold with 40 acres of land and 30;. rent in 

 Sussex to John Rede, 77 who conveyed it to Edward 

 Tanworth seven years later. 78 The latter sold it in 

 1595 to George, afterwards Sir George More, 79 of 

 JBaynards, with which it has since descended (q.v.). 



AST POLLINGFOLD apparently was again 

 separated from the main manor before 1560, and in 

 October 1 606 Sir Thomas Leedes, son of John Leedes 

 of Wapingthorne, Sussex, sold it to John Hill of 

 Ewhurst. 80 Some years after the latter's death it was 

 assigned to one of his daughters, Sarah, wife of John 

 Stevens. 81 A John Stevens was in possession in l69O, 8> 

 but in 1695 Robert Gardiner and his wife Mary held 

 it, 83 probably in her right, and conveyed it in 1 70 1 to 

 George Mabank, 84 evidently as a marriage portion, for 

 in 1790 George Mabank Gardiner sold it to John 

 Crouze." 



The remains of a moated inclosure called the Site 

 of Pollingfold Manor House are just outside Baynards 

 Park, in Cranleigh parish. This house was presumably 

 pulled down by Sir George More when he rebuilt 

 Baynards close by. But there is some doubt whether 

 it was really the old manor-house, for the court baron 

 was recently held at Moated Farm, an old moated house 

 now also pulled down, in Ewhurst parish. 86 If Bay- 

 nards had taken the place of the old manor house the 

 courts would have been held there. 



MATBANKES, in the south of the parish, was 

 occupied in 1503 by William Edsalle, 87 and was 

 granted with Somersbury Manor, Saltland, and Slehurst 

 in Ewhurst to Thomas Salter in 1 5 1 1 . 88 About the 

 same time Rumbemyr in Ewhurst was occupied by 

 Richard Astret, and Marschall by Thomas Edsalle. 89 

 Lands called Mascalls Pipers and Potfelds were sold 

 by Robert Browning to Nicholas Dendy in the 1 6th 

 century. 90 At the same time Moon Hall was held 

 (of Coneyhurst Manor) by William Ticknor," and land 

 .called Sprout or Prout was the subject of a dispute 



between Agnes Hill and her uncle, Richard Hill." 

 Thomas Hill sold it in 1608 to Sir Francis Wolley. 93 

 The church of ST. PETER AND 

 CHURCH ST. PAUL consists of a chancel ztft. 9 in. 

 by 1 5 ft. 9 in. ; a central tower 1 7ft. I oin. 

 by 1 5 ft. 3 in. ; a north transept 2 1 ft. 5 in. by 

 19 ft. 2 in. ; a south transept 23 ft. by 18 ft. 3 in. ; 

 a nave 34 ft. 5 in. by 19 ft. 5 in. The whole struc- 

 ture was almost completely rebuilt in 1838-9, for 

 during the progress of some repairs the central tower 

 collapsed and brought down much of the chancel in 

 its fall. The nave would appear to have been less 

 altered than the rest, and is of 1 2th-century date. 

 Alterations were evidently made, however, late in the 

 1 5th century, and a century or so later the nave at 

 least was a good deal altered as regards its windows. 

 But in view of the devastating repairs of 1838 the 

 early history of the church must remain a matter of 

 uncertainty, for they included a skin of plaster which 

 hides all evidence possibly contained in the walling. 

 The present church, however, is probably on the 

 foundations of the old one. 



The windows of the chancel all date from 1838, 

 that to the east being of three cinquefoiled lights and 

 ' perpendicular ' design. To north and south are 

 plain rather wide single lancets. To the south is also 

 a plain pointed door of the same date as the windows. 

 Externally the chancel appears entirely modern, and 

 the walls are of rubble plastered with sham joints 

 representing masonry. 



The tower rests upon four two-centred arches, all 

 of two continuous chamfered orders, heavily plastered 

 and probably completely modern. Above these the 

 tower rises in two stages. The second one, containing 

 the ringing chamber, is quite plain. The belfry stage 

 however, is of 12th-century design with round-headed 

 shafted openings, pilaster buttresses, and a crowning 

 corbel table with plain corbels and small round 

 connecting arches ; above this is a tiled broach spire of 

 a somewhat obtuse type. The whole of this part of 

 the tower is completely modern, as are also the 

 diagonal buttresses set in the angles of the chancel and 

 transepts and the nave and transepts. The ringing 

 chamber is reached by a wooden stair in one flight in 

 the north transept. 



The north transept appears to have been wholly 

 rebuilt in 1838. It is lit on the north by three 

 wide grouped lancet lights with wide chamfered 

 pilastered external jambs, and (over these) a trefoil 

 light. To east and west are two single lancet lights, 

 and on the west is also a small pointed door, all 

 of which date from the rebuilding. The south 

 transept is similar in every way, but lacks the door, 

 and retains an old window of late I 5th-century date. 

 This is of two rather wide trefoiled lights with sub- 

 mullions over and a square main head. It has been 

 a good deal disfigured in the resetting and restoration. 



70 Close, 7 Hen. IV, m. 29. 



I 1 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. ix, App. i, 390. 



7* Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, i, 170. 



7* Evidently she married Henry Roberts 

 as her second husband. 



7<Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 19 Hen. 

 VII. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), ccxlvii, 72. 



7 Close, ii Hen. VIII, pt. xxiii. 



77 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 23 Eliz. 



78 Ibid. Surr. East. 30 Eliz. 

 7Ibid. Hil. 37 Eliz. 



8 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Mich. 4. Jas. I, 

 m. 7 ; Manning and Bray quote a court roll 

 recording the death of John Leedes, seised 

 of Pollingfold in 1560. He was succeeded 

 by a son John, evidently father of Sir 

 Thomas. 



81 Deeds quoted in Manning and Bray, 

 op. tit. i, 502. 



M Feet of F. Surr. Trin. I Will, and 

 Mary. 



Ibid. East, 7 Will. III. 



"Ibid. Trin. 13 Will. III. 



100 



85 Ibid. HiL 30 Geo. III. 



86 Information from Mr. Waller of 

 Baynards. 



W Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.), portf. 

 xviii, no. 51. 



88 L. and P. Hen. VIII, i, 1916. 



89 Rentals and Surv. P.R.O. portf. xviii, 



Si- 

 s'* 1 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccix, n8. 

 91 Ibid, ccxl, 9. 



*> Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 97, no. 37. 

 * Close, 5 Jas. I, pt. xxv. 





