A HISTORY OF SURREY 



length, including the musicians' gallery, which was 

 built out as an upper floor over the entry or vestibule, 

 29 ft. This hall, as was commonly the case, must 

 have had a central hearth, the smoke from the wood 

 fires finding its way out at the upper windows, or 

 through a louvred turret in the roof. The original 

 front door still remains. Doubtless there were various 

 outbuildings and offices, beside double-storied wings 

 with parlours and sleeping apartments, which have 

 been either removed to make way for the later 

 additions, or so masked as to be indistinguishable 

 from them. The new front of 1582 was built on 

 in advance of the old hall. It is of two stories, and 

 its elevation consists of two gables of unequal size 

 with a smaller gable between, below which is the 

 porch entered by a wide doorway, having a four- 

 centred arch. The most interesting features of this 

 front are the barge-boards with moulded hip-knobs, or 

 pendants, at the apex ; the overhanging upper stories; 

 the mullioned and transomed oriels and other windows, 

 some on carved brackets ; and the ' square and circle ' 

 patterns of the timber framework. The latter is 

 in some cases enriched with shallow carving of fleurs- 

 de-lys a very rare feature in half-timber treatment. 

 Many other details worth notice might be cited, such 

 as a doorway in the garden wall, chimneys (one with 

 a crow-stepped base), panelling, doors, and internal 

 fittings. It is now the property of Colonel 

 Kennard. 



LITTLE T4NGLET was assigned to Elizabeth 

 Ludlow at the partition of John CarrilPs estates.* 7 

 After her daughter Elizabeth's death it was sold to 

 William Hammond of Bramley. 28 It is now the 

 residence of Mr. Cowley Lambert, F.R.G.S. 



The reputed manor of CHINTHURST (Chilt- 

 hurst xvi cent.) formed, together with a moiety of 

 Loseley, the dower assigned to Thomasine widow of 

 William Sidney by his son William in 1452.* 9 It 

 had then lately been held by John Hover. It passed 

 with Loseley to Sir Christopher More in 1532, and 

 descended to his son so William More of Loseley, who 

 exchanged it in 1557 for Foisted Manor in Compton 

 with John Wight and his wife Agnes." John Wight, 

 a descendant of this John (see Arlington), sold the 

 manor to John Sparkes of Gosden in 1791." The 

 manor was then held successively by his son and grand- 

 son, both being his namesakes. 35 It is now the seat of 

 Mr. W. V. Cooper. 



HALLDISH is a small farm in Shamley Green. 

 In the 1 4th century indulgence was granted to 

 Bartholomew of ' Haveldersh ' and his wife Joan, 

 who were buried in Wonersh churchyard.* 4 In the 

 1 7th century it was in the possession of the Dun- 

 combe family, and descended with Weston in Albury 

 to Nathaniel Sturt and his wife Anne. 35 Their grand- 

 son, the Rev. George Chatfield, was owner in 1808." 

 It was purchased before 1841 by Henry Drummond 

 of Albury," and belongs to the Duke of Northumber- 

 land his grandson. 



Green Place, the present residence of Mrs. Leighton, 



was reported in the 1 7th century to have been ' some- 

 time a fair and large house now ruinated,' and formerly 

 the property of Baron Roos. 38 It was the property of 

 the Elyots, afterwards of Busbridge, in the 1 5th 

 century.* 9 Thomas and Henry Elyot have brasses 

 in Wonersh Church. 



LOSTERFORD in Wonersh is called a manor in 

 the 1 6th century. In 1547 John Scarlet died seised 

 (inter aha) of the manor of Losterford, held of the 

 Countess of Southampton (Fitz William) as of the 

 manor of Shalford Bradestan. 40 He left a son John 

 aged seven years and upwards. In 1576 Thomas 

 Paston bought a moiety of the manor of Losterford 

 and Wykes of John Scarlet." 



In 1579 William Tycknor bought the manor of 

 Losterforde afias Lastarforde of Nicholas and Thomas 

 Parson, no doubt the same as Paston above. 41 Loster- 

 ford House is now the residence of Colonel Cust. 



ROWLEYS, another reputed manor, was bought 

 by Robert Harding, goldsmith, in 1 508, of Humphrey 

 Sydney. Robert's son William had a daughter Cathe- 

 rine (see Bramley), who married Richard Onslow, in 

 whose family Rowleys descended," till in 1806 the 

 Earl of Onslow sold it to Richard Sparkes, 44 who was 

 succeeded by his son John Sparkes." 



The church of ST. JOHN THE 

 CHURCHES BAPTIST is approached by a short 

 lane from the village street, through 

 iron gates in the lofty inclosing wall of Wonersh Park, 

 its churchyard adjoining the park. The churchyard 

 is surrounded by noble old trees and is beautifully kept. 

 The old parts of the church are built of ironstone 

 rubble, conglomerate, chalk rag, Bargate rubble and 

 other materials, with hard chalk or clunch for the 

 dressings and a good deal of what seems to be Caen 

 stone in the inside of the chancel and north chapel. 

 The roofs are tiled. The nave and south aisle (thrown 

 into one area and under one roof) and the transeptal 

 chapel on the south were largely rebuilt in 1793 by 

 the then Lord Grantley it is said from plans by his 

 butler in red brick and in the plainest sort of 

 meeting-house style. 



In the alterations of 1793, the end of the chancel 

 was cut off so as to make it coterminous with the 

 transeptal chapels, a small alcove being built out to 

 contain the altar. In the recent restoration (190 1 2) 

 some of the worst of these mutilations were undone, 

 the chancel being extended to what was probably its 

 original length, and the north chapel or chancel aisle, 

 which had also been reduced in length, prolonged 

 eastward on the old foundations. 



The present dimensions therefore are : nave 

 39 ft. 6 in. by 20 ft., or, with the space that originally 

 formed an aisle on the south, 30 ft. 6 in. in width ; 

 chancel, 32 ft. 5 in. by 20 ft. 3 in. ; north chapel, 

 21 ft. 5 in. by 14 ft. 5 in. ; tower, on the north of 

 the nave, opening into it and into the chapel, 1 3 ft. 

 9 in. by 1 3 ft. 5 in. ; and south chapel (now used as 

 organ-chamber and vestry), 2 1 ft. 3 in. by 1 8 ft. 

 The tower, somewhat unusually placed on the north 



v Exch. Spec. Com. 6485. 



88 Close, 25 Ceo. II, pt. i, no. 5. 



" Harl. Chart. 56 B 25. 



80 See under Loseley ; also Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxix, 134. Feet of F. 

 Surr. Mich. 5 Edw. VI. 



81 Com. Pleas D. Ear. East. 4*5 Phil, 

 and Mary, m. 367. 



" Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 3 1 Ceo. III. 



88 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 1 1 1 ; 

 Brayley, Tofog. Hist, of Surr. v, 148. 



84 Index to Epis. Reg. of Winchester ; 

 Egerton MS. 2032, fol. 128. 



85 Feet of F. Surr. East. 10 Geo. I. 

 88 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 108. 

 8 ? Brayley, Tofog. Hist, of Surr. v, 148. 

 88 Add. MS. (B.M.), 6167, fol. 467. 



Harl. MS. 1561, foL zii. 



124 



40 Inq. p.m. Wards and Liveries, I Edw. 

 VI, iii, n. 



41 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 1 8 Elit. 

 Ibid. Mil. 21 Eliz. 



48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclv, 96 ; 

 and Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, no. 



44 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, in; 

 Recov. R. East. 44 Geo. Ill, m. 231. 



41 Brayley, Tofog, Hiit. of Surr. v, 148. 



