A HISTORY OF SURREY 



Cranleigh between Wonersh and Shamley Green. It 

 is built in the Italian Renaissance style, and will 

 accommodate over one hundred students as well as 

 the teaching staff. 



On Blackheath is a Franciscan monastery with 

 accommodation for students, built in 1892 ; this is 



WONERSH : THE POST-OFFICE, SHAMLEY GREEN 



a. handsome building with a chapel of stone in the 

 Renaissance style. 



The churchyard is closed to interments. The 

 cemetery, between the village and Blaclcheath, was 

 given by Mrs. Sudbury of Wonersh Park in 1900. 

 Burials previously took place in the new churchyard 

 at Shamley Green. 



There is a Liberal club in the village. 



Among the many interesting old cottages and 

 houses in the village are two or three with very 

 perfect half-timber fronts, having projecting upper 

 stories showing the ends of the floor-joists, with 

 boldly-curved brackets, or jutty-pieces, at intervals, 

 ogee-curved braces, and in one case a recessed centre 

 flanked by projecting wings, of which one has been 

 removed recently. Several good chimneys of various 

 patterns are noteworthy. On the eastern side of the 

 village is a good example of early 18th-century archi- 

 tecture with hipped roof and sash windows. 



Shamley Green, an outlying hamlet, contains a 

 most interesting collection of old houses and cottages, 

 some of which have evidently seen better days. The 

 post-office 6 presents a charming study in roof-lines, 



and has a fine pair of chimneys and a timber-framed 

 gable of very sharp pitch, filled in with brick. This 

 gable possesses a good foliated barge-board of early 

 character, very like one in the rear of West Horsley 

 Place and another at Alfold. At the top of the Green 

 is another good timber house with a projecting gable 

 with a moulded bressummer on brackets 

 and a barge-board of tracery work in 

 the form of small quatrefoils pierced 

 through the solid board. There is a 

 good chimney, rising from the ground, 

 with moulded brick bases to the shafts 

 of the flues. More interesting still is a 

 house with a half-timber front, a good 

 projecting window, and a fine chimney. 

 On the left side of the front is a wing 

 of rubble and brick with tile-hung gable ; 

 the centre braces and a gable on the 

 right are framed in squares, with braces 

 cut into ogee curves. 7 The gable is 

 framed on a bressummer, and has a bold 

 projection on spurs or brackets, the soffit 

 being coved in plaster with moulded 

 wooden ribs. The curved braces occur 

 in the gable-end also, and the gable is 

 framed with a rich barge-board of pierced 

 quatrefoils set in moulded circles, re- 

 sembling that in the before-mentioned 

 example. In the apex of both gables 

 is a clever arrangement for concealing 

 the junction of the two sides of the 

 barge-board. The story beneath this 

 gable rests upon an elaborately moulded 

 joist-board or bressummer. The ground 

 story has been built out in brickwork. 

 This house may date from about 1500.* 

 Wonersh Park is a beautifully-tim- 

 bered park through which runs a small 

 stream. It formerly belonged to Richard 

 Gwynn, who died in 1701, aged seventy- 

 two. 9 His heiress was Susan Clifton, 

 whose daughter and heiress Trehane married in 1710 

 Sir William Chappie, serjeant-at-law in 1723, who 

 became a judge of the King's Bench in 1737 and 

 died in 1745. He probably rebuilt the house. Sir 

 William's eldest son, William, is said '"to have been 

 unmarried. In the Wonersh Registers his mar- 

 riage is entered, but is erased with such success that 

 though his name and parentage are legible that of the 

 lady is entirely gone, and the details of the probable 

 mesalliance are consequently 

 lost. All Sir William's sons 

 died without issue, except one, 

 whose two daughters prede- 

 ceased him. His surviving 

 daughter Grace therefore be- 

 came his heiress, and married 

 in 1741 Fletcher Norton of 

 Grantley in Yorkshire, who 

 was Solicitor-General in 1761, 

 Attorney - General in 1763, 

 Speaker of the House of 

 Commons 1770, being then 

 M.P. for Guildford, and was 



NORTON, Lord Grant- 

 ley. Azure a sleeve er- 

 mine tvitll a bend gules 

 over all. 



' Illustrated by Mr. Nevill in his Old 

 Cottage and Domestic Architecture in South- 

 ivest Surr. 



1 A common fashion in half-timber 



houses, at e.g. in a small house at Lin- 8 Old Cottages and Farmhouses in Surr. 



sted, Kent ; at East Mascalls, Sussex ; and by Davie and Green, has good photographs 

 in cottages in Wonersh, West Horsley, of this house. 9 Parish Registers. 



and East Clandon, Surrey. 

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10 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, ill. 



