BLACKHEATH HUNDRED 



WONERSH 



Christ Church Shamley Green was built in 1864 as 

 a chapel of ease to Wonersh. It is in the 13th-cen- 

 tury style, of sandstone with a west turret and spire. 



On Blackheath is a chapel of ease to the parish 

 church. It is built of stone in Italian Gothic or 

 Romanesque style. 



The church of Wonersh was 

 JDrOWSONS formerly a chapel of Shalford, and 

 as such was in the presentation of the 

 king. 47 In I 304-5 Edward I granted it to the Hospital 

 of St. Mary without Bishopsgate and called it a church 

 in his charter. 48 The Prior of St. Mary held the advow- 

 son till the Dissolution, when it came into the hands 

 of the Crown. 49 In 1590 Queen Elizabeth granted it 

 with Shalford rectory to her secretary Sir John Wolley. 50 

 His son and heir Sir Francis Wolley died holding the 

 advowson in 1609.*' George Duncombe was dealing 

 with it in 1650, Roger Duncombe in 1677, and 

 George Duncombe in 1693." In 1765 George 



Duncombe sold it to Sir Fletcher Norton, whose son, 

 William Lord Grantley, held it in 1808." It was 

 acquired by Lord Ashcombe after the sale of the 

 Grantley estates, and presented by him to Selwyn 

 College, Cambridge. 



Shamley Green was formed into a parish from 

 Wonersh in 1 88 1 .** The living is in the gift of Lord 

 Ashcombe. 



Smith's charity is distributed as in 

 CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. Mr. John 

 Austen of Shalford left money for 

 poor relief in 1620. Mr. Henry Chennell of Wonersh 

 left land, the produce to be devoted to putting six 

 poor boys to school, in 1672. Mr. Gwynne of London 

 gave land and bank stock, in 1698, to put four poor 

 boys to school and to distribute bread to fifteen poor 

 persons every Sunday after service. 



The charities are now (1908) being amalgamated 

 under a scheme by the Charity Commissioners. 



4 7 Maitland, Braetan'i Note Bk. 9135 

 Cul. Pat. 1116-25, P- 497- 



48 Chart. R. 33 Edw. I, no. 49. 



49 Egerton MS. 2031, fol. 118; ibid. 

 2033, fol. 42 j ibid. 2034, fol. 176. 



60 Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. xvii. 



81 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxlix, 74 ; 

 ccciv, 60, 



M Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1650 ; Mich. 

 29 Chat. II ; Hil. 4 & 5 Will, and Mary. 



53 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 

 113. 



M Census 1891. Administrative and An- 

 cient Co. i, 350. 



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