BLACKHEATH HUNDRED 



HASCOMBE 



sold the manor In 1723 to Leonora Frederick and 

 her son John Frederick who was created baronet in 



FRIDIRICK, Baronet 

 Or a chief azure <with 

 three doves argent therein. 



THBTLIWAIT*. Or 

 a bend azure "with three 

 fheons or therein. 



GODMAN of Park 

 Hatch. Party ermine 

 and erminees a chief in~ 

 dented or and therein a 

 lion paaant vert. 



the same year." Early in the 1 9th century Hascombe 

 became the property of Robert Thistlewaite through 

 marriage with Selina Frede- 

 rick, 83 daughter of Sir John's 

 younger son Thomas, who 

 succeeded his brother in the 

 baronetcy. Sir Henry Ed- 

 mund Austen of Shalford 

 bought it of their son and sold 

 it in 1841 to Joseph Godman 

 of Park Hatch, grandfather 

 of the present lord of the 

 manor. 



The old manor-house was 

 at Place Farm, south-east of 

 the church and north of Has- 

 combe Hill. 



The church (not mentioned in Domes- 

 CHURCH day) of ST. PETER" is situated in 

 the midst of lovely wooded scenery in 

 the fork between two roads near a cluster of houses. 

 The churchyard is planted with fine trees and 

 shrubs, and is approached through a modern lych- 

 gate. 



The church was entirely rebuilt in 1 3th-century 

 style in 1864 from designs by Mr. H. Woodyer, in 

 Bargate stone, with Bath stone dressings. It is small, 

 but very thoroughly finished in every detail, and con- 

 sists of a nave, a small western tower, with shingled 

 spire, a chancel with a polygonal apse,a south chapel and 

 a south porch. Almost the only relic of the old church 

 is the I Jth-century chancel screen, which has, however, 

 been elaborately decorated in colour. The narrow 

 lancet windows are filled with glass by Hardman, and 

 on the walls of the apse are carved the angels of the 

 seven churches, each holding a stone candlestick. 

 There are an alabaster reredos and sedilia, a credence- 

 table, and a squint from the south chapel, which con- 

 tains the squire's pew and is screened off from the 

 nave. The stone pulpit has a carved figure of 

 St. Peter. The font of Sussex marble has a small 

 square bowl on a square-banded pedestal and plinth, 

 and bears the inscription on its western face, ' The gift 

 of Richard Holland, rector, j69<D.' It somewhat 

 resembles in form two Sussex fonts not far away, at 

 Lurgashall and North Chapel, also of Sussex marble, 

 and bearing date 1661. In 1890 the nave was 



decorated in colour, the subject being the Miraculous 

 Draught of Fishes. 



The old church must have been a curious and 

 singularly attractive little building, judging by the 

 drawing preserved in Cracklow's Churches of Surrey 

 (1824). The late Mr. J. L. Andre has also left a 

 careful sketch of the church taken from the south- 

 east, Cracklow's view being from the north-west, 

 accompanied by a small block plan to scale, from 

 which its dimensions can be approximately re- 

 covered. 



It was built of Bargate rubble, and the walls were 

 plastered externally. It consisted of nave, about 40 ft. 

 by 20 ft. internally, and short chancel with a semi- 

 circular apse about 1 5 ft. in length and 1 7 ft. in 

 width. On the north of the nave, somewhat un- 

 usually, was the principal entrance, protected by a 

 timber-framed porch with arched opening and foliated 

 barge-board of 14th-century character. A little to 

 the west of the middle of the nave roof (which was 

 covered with Horsham slabs) rose a timber bell-turret 

 with shingled spirelet, containing two bells (re-cast 

 at the re-building), this turret being described by 

 Cracklow as 'a loft of timber,' viewed from within 

 the nave. At the west end there was a gallery erected 

 in 1784. The south door was a plain round-headed 

 opening of mid lath-century date, and two very 

 perfect little windows of the same date remained, one 

 in either wall, in the eastern part of the nave. (In 

 Mr. Andre's sketch the stove pipe is seen projecting 

 through that on the south.) In the apse were two 

 lancets of early 13th-century character, while to the 

 west of that on the south side was a two-light tracery 

 window of the first half of the 1 4th century, and 

 another of similar date and style in the eastern part 

 of the nave hard by. A plain opening filled with a 

 wooden frame had been pierced in the west wall 

 about 1 800, and another in the western part of the 

 south wall, high up, to light the gallery. 



The earliest monuments are to Richard Holland, 

 rector, and to his wife, who died respectively in 1 694 

 and 1664. The ancient family of Didelsfold is re- 

 presented by later memorials. 



All the church plate is of igth-century date, one 

 chalice being engraved with seven kneeling angels and 

 the Agnus Dei, the River of Life, the Holy City, the 

 twelve angels and the names of the tribes of Israel 

 and of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb, &c. No 

 less than 300 precious stones (including those men- 

 tioned in the Apocalypse) have been employed in the 

 jewelling of this remarkable cup, which was the work 

 of Mr. J. A. Pippet, of the firm of Messrs. J. Hard- 

 man & Co., Birmingham, who also executed the 

 wall-paintings in the church. Underneath the foot 

 is ' Vernon Musgrave Rector of Hascombe A.D. 

 1889.' 



The bells are all modern. 



The registers of baptisms date from 1 646, of mar- 

 riages from 1658, of burials from 1659. 



No church is mentioned in the 

 ADV Off SON Taxatio of 1291, but Henry Hussey 

 died seised of the advowson in 

 1305." It belonged to the successive lords of Has- 

 combe till early in the igth century, when Algernon 



M Feet of F. SUIT. Mil. 9 Geo. I j 

 Recov. R. East. 9 Geo. I, m. 13, 16. 



28 Brayley, Hilt. ofSurr. v, llj ; Recov. 

 R. East, i Geo. IV, m. 6. 



* Commonly so called. Salmon, An- 

 tiquities of Surr. (ed. 1735), called it 

 St. John's. In 1535 Arnold Mellersh 

 desired by will to be buried before the 



high altar in the church of St. Michael, 

 Hascombe. 



Harl. MS. 5193, fol. 26. 



