REIGATE HUNDRED 



BURSTOW 



The south-east window of the chancel is like the 

 east window, but of two lights, and the other south 

 window is of four lights of the same character. Near 

 the east end of the south wall is a piscina with a 

 small quatrefoiled basin and a chamfered shelf. The 

 lower portion has plain chamfered jambs, but above 

 the shelf they are moulded and the head is trefoiled, 

 under a square lintel. It is of 15th-century date. 

 Beneath the sill of the first window is a canopied seat 

 which has moulded jambs and a very flat arched head. 



Between the two south windows is a small 15th- 

 century priest's doorway with a four-centred arch 

 under a square head, and now blocked on the inside. 



The vestry has a small single trefoiled east window, 

 the jambs being of old stones re-used, but the head 

 and sill are modern. 



The 15th-century chancel arch has shafted and 

 moulded jambs with octagonal moulded bases and 

 capitals to the shafts. On either side of it are shallow 

 trefoiled recesses to contain images over the nave 

 altar, that on the south having a second recess below 

 it, while in the south-east arcade of the nave is a 

 piscina. At the north-east end of the north wall of 

 the nave is an arched recess, common in this district, 

 designed to give more room 

 for the altar here. 



The north-east window of 

 the nave has two cinquefoiled 

 lights under a flat head with 

 a moulded label, and near 

 the west end of .the north 

 wall is a window of four 

 cinquefoiled lights under a 

 square head with a moulded 

 label, all but the foiled heads 

 and the label being modern. 

 Immediately to the east of it 

 is a small blocked 1 2th-century 

 window with a semicircular 

 head, the western jamb of 

 which must have been de- 

 stroyed when the four-light 

 window was inserted. No- 



to contain a deal screen of poor Gothic character, 

 now set up in the west side of the tower. The 

 tower is a very interesting piece of timber construc- 

 tion, probably of 1 5th-century date, the supporting 

 beams and posts being very massive. As usual, the 

 lower stage is wider than the upper, the main posts 

 coming down within its lines, and being connected by 

 heavy ground sills with a most picturesque effect. 

 The ground stage must have been almost entirely dark 

 before the narrow cinquefoiled windows were pierced 

 in the north and south walls within recent years. 

 The stairs to the belfry are in the north-west corner, 

 and do not rise above the first floor ; in the west wall 

 is a wooden doorway with moulded jambs and a three- 

 centred head with trefoiled spandrels. The upper 

 part of the tower is covered with oak shingles lately 

 renewed (1902), and has small angle pinnacles, and 

 an octagonal shingled spire, on the east side of which 

 a large flagstaff is set up. The fittings of the church, 

 except the font, are of modern date, but under 

 the tower is kept an old chest with an arched lid 

 heavily strapped with iron, and doubtless of con- 

 siderable age. 



The font is of 15th-century date, octagonal with 



PLAN OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH, BURSTOW 



thing of it can be seen on the inside. There is no 

 trace of a doorway in this wall. 



The south arcade is of three bays with columns 

 formed of four attached shafts set square with the wall 

 over, and not diagonally after the usual fashion ; their 

 moulded bases and capitals are single octagons, not 

 following the plan of the shafts, the arrangement 

 being unusual, but quite satisfactory in effect. The 

 arches are four-centred and are moulded with a 

 hollow casement between two hollow chamfers, and 

 above the capitals at the springing level there are 

 plain shields, and in a similar position on the south 

 side of the east respond is a large carved head. 



The east and west windows of the aisle are modern 

 and have each two cinquefoiled lights, and the south- 

 east window is like that in the north wall, of four 

 cinquefoiled lights, of which only the heads are old ; 

 to the east of it is a piscina with chamfered jambs and 

 four-centred head and a small quatrefoiled drain. 



The south doorway is of 15th-century date and 

 has moulded jambs and a two-centred arch under a 

 square head, the spandrels being filled with quatrefoils. 



At the west end of the nave is a modern Gothic 

 tower arch, set within the lines of a four-centred arch 

 evidently coeval with the south arcade. It was made 



quatrefoil panels on each side, and leaf paterae at the 

 base of the bowl. 



There are six bells in the tower, the treble by 

 Gillett and Johnson, 1906, and the second by the 

 same founders, 1 899, who at this date recast the other 

 four bells, preserving their original inscriptions. The 

 third was by John Daniell of London, c. 1450, in- 

 scribed, ' Sancte Thome ora pro nobis," with Daniell's 

 cross and stop, and the royal arms of England ; the 

 fourth had the three names ' Thos. Gelman, John 

 Bhyss, and Wyllum Rofe ' ; the fifth was by William 

 Mears, and the tenor by William Eldridge, 1 68 1. 



The plate is as follows : A silver cup of 1 667 ; a 

 paten probably belonging to it, but the hall-mark, if 

 any, is almost obliterated. There is also a stand 

 paten of 1899 and a flagon of 1898. There is a 

 pocket Communion set of plated white metal. 



The registers are contained in six books, the first 

 having entries of baptisms, marriages, and burials from 

 1549 to 1600. This is a paper book in very good 

 condition. The second book is of parchment, and 

 contains all three entries from 1547 to 1685, and 

 is a copy of the first with additions both at the 

 beginning and end of the book. The third book 

 has marriages and burials from 1685 to 1756 and 



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