A HISTORY OF SURREY 



There are no remains of ancient wall paintings or 

 glass, but in the nave, chancel, and north aisle are 

 many modern stained glass windows, by Clayton & 

 Bell and other firms, some very good (as in the aisle 

 and the side windows of the chancel), others of poor 

 quality. The seating, pulpit, reredos, and other 

 fittings are all also modern, but in the vestry are pre- 

 served a number of carved pew doors, of 1 7th-century 

 date, worked up into a cupboard ; also a wrought 

 iron hour-glass stand. 



The registers date from 1653. 



Among the plate is a two-handled cup, of date 

 about 1 65 5, evidently a porringer, and very similar in 

 design and size to one in use as a communion cup at 

 Winterborne Whitchurch, Dorset, which is dated 

 1653. There is some repouss6 ornamentation in 

 circles on the bowl, with traces of gilding, and the 

 handles are S-shaped. Beneath the foot is engraved 

 a Tudor rose within a beaded circle. The bowl has 

 at some time been soldered to the foot, which 

 was probably higher originally. There are patens 

 of 1781 and 1786, some modern pieces; and a 

 pewter plate bearing (i) the name RICHARD KING, and 

 devices of two bears or badgers flanked by fluted 

 columns ; (2) a crowned rose, with a word beginning 

 ' GRA . . ' ; and (3), s over BE. 



Of the six bells two are I gth century, two are by 

 Thomas Mears, and dated 1797, and no. 4 and 5 

 bear the following inscriptions respectively : 



'OUR HOPE IS IN THE LORD R.E. 1605,' and ' OMNIA 

 HABENT FINEM R.E. I 593,' 



the initials in both cases being those of Richard 

 Eldridge, a well-known Surrey founder. 



CHRIST CHURCH, COLDH4RBOUR, was built 

 in 1 848 at the expense of Mr. Labouchere, of Broome 

 Hall. The Duke of Norfolk gave the ground in the 

 waste of the manor. It has a plain nave and chancel 

 in 13th-century style, with rather a fine pointed arch 

 between them. The church is of local stone, with 

 chalk dressings. There is a stone bell-turret on the 

 west end. It was refitted, and an organ chamber 

 added in 1904 by Sir A. Hargreaves Brown in 

 memory of his mother. The heads on the corbels at 

 the spring of the arch over the east window outside 

 are portraits of Mr. John Labouchere the founder 

 and of Mrs. Labouchere. 



Capel was originally a chapelry of 

 Dorking. The chapel, which gives 

 its name to the parish, seems first 

 mentioned in a confirmation by Henry de Blois, 

 Bishop of Winchester 1129-71, of the grants of 

 churches, &c., given to the Priory of Lewes by the 

 Earls of Warenne. He confirms to them ' Ecclesiam 

 de Dorking cum Capella de la Wachna.' The charter 

 is witnessed by Robert, Archdeacon of Surrey, who 

 witnessed the charter of Henry to Waverley in 

 1130." This seems to be Capel ; for in 1361 Adam 

 atte Plesshette granted land which had been held by 

 Edith Pipestre of the grant of Maurice de Ewekne 



lying in the parish ' Capelle de Ewekene,' along with 

 land in Ockley at Henhurst which is on the border 

 of Capel." In Pope Nicholas's taxation of 1291 

 ' Dorking cum Capella ' is the style of Dorking 

 parish ; so that it would appear that Capel became 

 first called a separate parish between 1291 and 1361. 

 This was possibly about 1334-7, when the church of 

 Dorking with Capel was transferred from Lewes 

 Priory to Reigate Priory, just founded by the last 

 Earl of Warenne and Surrey. 8 * The tithes of Capel 

 were let immediately afterwards ; ** and the whole 

 revenue was entirely at the disposal of the priory, and 

 was granted to Lord William Howard with Reigate 

 Priory at the Dissolution. The lay impropriator hence- 

 forth paid what he chose to the curate-in-charge of 

 Capel. This state of things existed until 1868, when 

 an endowment was raised by neighbouring landowners. 



Charles Lord Howard of Effingham, son of Lord 

 William Howard, leased the rectory, as it was called, 

 and possibly the advowson also, to John Cowper, 28 

 May 1587. Julian Cowper, John's widow, conveyed 

 to Richard Cowper, John's nephew and eventual 

 heir, in 1603." The Cowpers of Temple Elfold 

 in Capel conveyed the lease to other persons for terms 

 of years only, and in 1644 Mr. Richard Cowper had 

 the advowson, and engaged in a lively controversy 

 with the Committee of Plundered Ministers, declin- 

 ing to pay anybody else than the Rev. John Allen, 

 whom they had removed.* 6 He carried his point, 

 and though the committee kept the man of their 

 choice, they had to pay him out of the estates of the 

 Chapter of Winchester. 87 But for an interval, while 

 the controversy was proceeding, Capel baptisms and 

 burials were performed at Newdigate, there being no 

 parson in Capel. In 1660 the Cowper leases ex- 

 pired, and the rectory of Capel was, with others, con- 

 firmed to the Earl of Peterborough, as heir of Lord 

 William Howard. 88 His daughter Mary sold in 1677 to 

 Sir John Parsons. The widow of his son Humphrey 

 settled it on her daughter Anne, wife of Sir John 

 Hynde Cotton. In 1 766 they sold to John Rogers for 

 ^5,700, subject to the payment of 20 a year to the 

 curate. He died 1778, leaving it to his wife, who 

 married secondly William Chivers, to whom it was 

 conveyed. William Chivers died 1805, when it 

 descended to his nephew Noah Chivers, who con- 

 veyed in 1812 to the Duke of Norfolk. His heir 

 sold in 1844 to Charles Webb, who died 1869, 

 leaving his property in trust ; and the advowson and 

 rectory are now in the hands of his trustees. 89 



Coldharbour is an ecclesiastical district formed in 

 1850 under 7 & 8 Viet. cap. 94, from portions of the 

 parishes of Capel, Dorking, Wotton, and Ockley. 



The living is in the gift of the trustees of Mr. 

 John Labouchere. 



Smith's Charity is distributed as in 

 CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. 



Capel Cottage Hospital was built 

 by the widow of the Rev. John Broadwood in 1 864. 

 It is maintained chiefly by public subscription. 



81 Exch. T.R. B g fol. 49. The volume 

 is also lettered Cartae Antiquae de Prior- 

 atu de Lewes. 



8a Charter in possession of the late 

 Rev. T. R. O'Fflahertie, Vicar of Capel. 

 Compare Manning and Bray, Surr. iii, 

 App. cxxx ; 'land in the parishes of 

 Dorking and Ewekenes ' in a charter of 

 1481. 'Ewekenes,' now usually spelt 



Eutons, is a farm in Capel ; there are re- 

 mains of a moat near it. 



88 Winton Epis. Reg. Orlton, i, fol. 

 57 d. But in 1508 it was still called a 

 chapel of Dorking. 



84 Winton Epis.Rcg.Edendon,ii,fol.4i-z. 



85 Deed at Loseley reciting the former 

 lease to John Cowper. 



w Add. MS. (B.M.), 15669, fol. n. 



14.0 



*> Bodl. MSS. 323, p. 171 j 325, p. 



2*3 i 327, P- 58- 



88 Pat. iz Chas. II, pt. xviii, no. 16. 

 Pro concessione Johanni Vicecomiti Mor- 

 daunt, in trust for his elder brother the 

 earl's daughter Mary. (See above.) 



89 Abstract of title to rectory and glebe 

 of Capel. Sold in 1910 to Mr. Crisp of 

 Godalming. 



