A HISTORY OF SURREY 



runs round the south wall as far as the vestry, break- 

 ing up to form labels over a trefoiled piscina and a 

 single chamfered sedile, both being modern. Above 

 is a single trefoiled window in new stone. The 

 arcade to the chapel is of three bays with pointed 

 arches of two chamfered orders with hollow labels, 

 and has been reworked and in part rebuilt. The 

 pillars are round, with moulded capitals and bases. 

 In the east wall of the chapel are three 13th-century 

 lancets with chamfered rear arches, and in the north 

 wall three similar lancets, but with external rebates. 

 At the west end of the north wall is a small modern 

 porch over a doorway which has a pointed arch of 

 two orders with a label, the inner order having a raised 

 zigzag moulding. The outer order has jamb-shafts 

 with foliate capitals and shafts, one capital and per- 

 haps a little of the label being late 12th-century 

 work, but all the rest is modern or reworked. It is 

 clearly not in its original position. In the west wall 

 of the chapel is a lancet with an external rebate like 

 those on the north. 



There is no chancel arch. On the south side the 

 nave wall sets back a few inches at the east, but a few 

 feet down the nave regains its original I zth-century 

 thickness, though setting back here and on the north 

 side a little below the windows. Of these there 

 are three in the north and south walls, short and 

 narrow round-headed lights set high in the wall. 

 They date from the beginning of the I2th century, 

 but have been a good deal repaired. The south wall 

 has at the east a late 15th-century square-headed win- 

 dow of three trefoiled lights, inserted to light an altar, 

 and the south door is in modern 13th-century style. 

 There is a blocked round-headed west doorway show- 

 ing internally only, and above it a modern three-light 

 window of 14th-century style. 



The organ chamber on the south side of the chancel 

 has an arcade of one sub-divided bay. In the south 

 wall are two modern lancets ; the vestry adjoining it 

 has an outer doorway, a modern lancet opening from 

 the chancel, and another on the external wall. The 

 chancel and north chapel roofs are modern, but that 

 of the nave is old, with canted sides, boarded, and 

 with simple beaded fillets, perhaps of 1 7th-century 

 date. The font at the west of the nave is modern, 

 in I 3th-century style ; and the fittings are all modern 

 except the altar table, which has some carving appar- 

 ently of 18th-century date. 



There are three bells ; two bear the inscription 

 ' William Eldridge made mee, 1 674 ' ; the third 



was recast by Mears and Stainbank in 1880, but 

 was probably originally of the same date as the 

 others. 



The plate consists of a silver cup, with cover paten, 

 a plate, and a flagon, all with the London hall-mark of 

 1 736. They are inscribed, ' The gift of the Countess 

 of Dongall and the Earl her son.' There is a brass 

 almsdish presented in 1880 by Miss M. A. Roe. 



The Registers date from 1599. 



At Forest Green, a common with scattered houses 

 about it, in this district, 3 miles to the south, for- 

 merly an outlying part of Ockley, is a small church 

 consisting of a nave and chancel, in brick with, stone 

 dressings, built by Mr. Ernest Hensley, of Sprats- 

 ham on the borders of Wotton and Abinger, in 1897, 

 in memory of his son who died by an accident. 



There is no mention in Domes- 

 4DPOWSONS day Book of a church in Abinger ; 

 no record of it has been found until 

 a presentation by Adam de Gurdon at some date between 

 1282 and I3O4. 95 In the I4th century the church 

 appears as the parish church of Abinger alias the 

 parish church of Paddington ; " and the fact that it 

 served the spiritual needs of both manors probably 

 accounts for alternate presentation by either lord. 

 Accordingly, between 1305 and 1316, Thomas de 

 Jarpenvill presented to the church ; 9S and about the 

 same time his son Roger occasioned grave scandal by 

 laying violent hands upon the rector. The next pre- 

 sentation was made by one Henry de Somerburie ; 

 the living, however, once more fell vacant before 

 1316, and presentation was then made by Roger de 

 Jarpenvill. 96 It is possible that the more intricate 

 succession to the manor of Paddington may account 

 for the tenants' apparent carelessness in taking their 

 turn at nominating ; at any rate, the next presenta- 

 tion was again made by a member of the Jarpenvill 

 family. Some time before 1366 Thomas de Syndle- 

 sham, the Paddington tenant, took advantage of his 

 turn, and shortly afterwards Thomas de Jarpenvill 

 presented. 97 About this date we find a pronounce- 

 ment of the union of the two halves, 98 and from that 

 time the advowson, with an occasional variation, 

 remained in the hands of the lords of Abinger, and 

 is now in the gift of Mr. Evelyn. The exceptions to 

 be noted are a presentation by the Crown in 1638 ; 

 by one Henry Herbert in 1683 ; and by Joseph OfHey 

 in 1685." 



Smith's Charity is distributed as in 



CHAR11T 



other Surrey parishes. 



CAPEL 



The parish of Capel is bounded on the north by 

 Dorking, of which it was formerly a part, on the east 

 by Leigh and Newdigate, on the south by the county 

 of Sussex, on the west by Wotton and Ockley. A 

 part of Capel lying across the north of Ockley sepa- 

 rates that parish from Dorking. The body of Capel 

 parish is 4 miles from north to south and \\ miles 

 east to west, but this projecting tongue makes the 

 breadth at the north end 3 miles. It contains 

 5,680 acres of land and 1 5 of water. The soil of 



93 Egcrton MS. 2031, fol. i. 



94 De Banco R. 574, m. 379 d. 



the greater part is Wealden Clay, but the north-west 

 part abuts upon the high Green Sands of Leith Hill 

 and Coldharbour Common, rising to 900 ft. above 

 the sea. In this part of the parish there was a land- 

 slip in the reign of Elizabeth, recorded by Camden 

 and Aubrey, when the sand slipped upon the under- 

 lying clay and made a precipitous scar in the side of 

 the hill, even now visible for many miles from the 

 southward. The place was called Constable's Mosses ; 

 Constable resided at a farm still called Mosses. The 



Ibid. m. 46. 



96 Egerton MS. 2033, fol. I. 



'34 



"7 Ibid. 

 98 Ibid. 



99 Inst. Bk. (P.R.O.). 



