REIGATE HUNDRED 



CHIPSTEAD 



respectively ; and the tenor by Thomas Mears, 

 1835. 



The communion plate consists of a cup, two patens, 

 and a flagon of 1 703-4. 



The registers date from 1595. 



The advowson of the church be- 

 longed with Charlwood Manor to 

 Christchurch, Canterbury. 101 A vicar- 

 age was ordained by the monks before 1 3089, as 

 reference is made in that year to the land of the 

 vicar of Charlwood. 1 " 1 After the dissolution of Christ- 

 church the advowson was apparently granted to 

 Sir Robert Southwell with the manor, as in 1547 he 

 alienated both to Henry Lechford, 103 whose son 

 Sir Richard conveyed the advowson to Richard 

 Dallender in i6og. >ot In 1615 Dallender quit- 

 claimed to Robert Hatton, 105 from whom in 1622 it 

 returned to the Lechfords. 106 Sir Richard, when he 

 sold the manor of Charlwood in 1625, retained the 

 advowson, selling it, however, in 1629 to Edmund 

 Sander of Charlwood Place. 10 ' 



In 1 644 the rectory of Charlwood was sequestered, 

 the rector, Thomas Mulcaster, having been proceeded 

 against by ' five or six of the very scum of the parish,' 

 according to his own account. 108 



His son-in-law, Henry Hesketh, who was chaplain 

 in ordinary to Charles II, was afterwards rector of the 



parish. 109 In 1 66 1 Edmund Sander devised all his 

 lands and tenements in Charlwood, including the 

 property of the rectory, to his sister Elizabeth 

 Bradshaw, 110 from whom they passed to her cousin 

 Sir William Throckmorton, who sold in 1672 to 

 Sir Andrew King. 111 In 1716 the rectory and 

 advowson were conveyed to Henry Wise from various 

 parties, 111 who were according to Manning trustees of 

 Francis Lord Aungier, to whom Sir Andrew King 

 had conveyed them. 113 The property remained with 

 the Wises until 1884, during which time the church 

 was often served by members of that family. 111 It 

 passed in 1884 to the Rev. E. M. Gibson, 114 and 

 the living, which is still in his gift, has been held by 

 him since that time. 



The living was a peculiar of Canterbury till 1 846, 

 when it was transferred to Winchester. By the 

 rearrangement of dioceses in 1878 it was again trans- 

 ferred to Rochester. 



Smith's Charity is distributed as in 

 CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. 



Four houses for the use of the poor 

 were returned as existing in 1786, but are now lost. 



The Rev. John Bristowe, rector from 1624 to 

 1637, left a schoolhouse and 5 acres of land to educate 

 poor children, and Michael Earle, rector I 598 to 1624, 

 left z annually charged on land for the poor. 



CHIPSTEAD 



Tepestede (xi cent.) ; Chepstede, Testa de Nevill ; 

 Chypstede (xiii cent.) ; Chipstede (xv cent.) ; Chep- 

 stid (xvi cent.). 



Chipstead is a small parish, 4 miles north from 

 Redhill, and 6 miles south-west of Croydon. It is 

 bounded by Banstead and Woodmansterne on the 

 north, by Coulsdon and Merstham on the east, by 

 Gatton on the south, and by Kingswood in Ewell on 

 the west. It measures 3 miles north-east and south- 

 west by 2 miles north-west to south-east, and contains 

 2,41 9 acres. It lies upon a high ridge of down between 

 500 and 600 ft. above the sea, on the chalk which is 

 crowned by clay with flints and a large patch of sand, 

 between the curiously dry depression in the chalk on 

 the east through which the Brighton and South Eastern 

 line and the road from Croydon to Merstham run, 

 and the valley called Chipstead Bottom on the west 

 and north-west. The former depression, called 

 Smitham Bottom lower down, is purely in the chalk, 

 but in the bottom of the latter is a continuous strip 

 of gravel and sand, showing that though now dry a 

 stream has run down it at no very remote time. Even 

 in the historical period, and during recent years, the 

 water level in the chalk has sunk appreciably. 



The parish is agricultural. There can hardly be 

 said to be a village. There is a farm near the church, 

 which occupies a commanding position on the hill, 

 and there are scattered houses. Mugswell, which 

 formerly was called Muggs Hole, and before that 



Monks Hole, is a hamlet 2 miles south-west of the 

 church. There is a considerable amount of wood 

 upon the sand and clay which caps the chalk. Upper 

 Gatton Park extends into the parish, and a road runs 

 by it from Reigate along the high ground of Chip- 

 stead towards Woodmansterne. Gatewick Heath, now 

 inclosed, upon it, and Gatton, and Gatwick due south 

 on the same line in Charlwood and Horley, may 

 indicate an old track-way. 



A few flakes and a celt of micaceous grit have been 

 found about Chipstead. 1 The Chipstead Valley and 

 Tattenham Corner branch of the South Eastern and 

 Chatham Railway runs through the parish, and there 

 is a station, opened in 1899, called Banstead and 

 Chipstead, but situated in Woodmansterne parish 

 Kingswood Station is in Chipstead. 



The land is now nearly all inclosed, except Starrock 

 and Parsonage Green, although no Inclosure Act or 

 Award is extant. Above Chipstead Bottom are 

 artificial balks along the face of the chalk slope, 

 which may be traces of ancient cultivation. 



There are several gentlemen's houses. Shabden, 

 standing in a large park, is the seat of Mr. William 

 Milburn,J.P. ; PirbrightofMr.W. A.McArthur.M.P.; 

 Court Lodge Farm of Mr. Frank Brown. Manning 

 and Bray 1 consider this to be the site of the old manor 

 house of Beauchamps. The Old Rectory, at Mugs- 

 well, 2 miles from the church, is the seat of Mr. E. 

 Campbell Cooper. It is an old house, part of it dating 



101 V.C.H. Surr. ii, 9 ; Add. Chart. 

 18600; Manning and Bray, Hiit. of Surr. ii. 

 li Add. Chart. 18600. 

 l" 3 Pat. I Edw. VI, pt. viii, m. 15. 

 i" 4 Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 7 Jas. I. 

 105 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1 3 Jas. I. 

 lc * Close, 20 Jas. I, pt. xxxvii, no. 40. 



W Close, I Clias. I, pt. xviii, no. 18 ; 

 5 Chas. I, pt. xxvi, no. 1 3. 

 1 9 Surr. Arch. CM. ix, 256. 

 1( Ibid, i Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 P.C.C. 28 Land. 

 111 Close, 24 Chas. II, pt. v, no. 6. 

 i" Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 2 Geo. II. 



189 



113 Manning and Bray, Hi a. of Surr. ii. 



i Ibid. ; Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.) ; Com. 

 Plcai D. Enr. Trin. 9 Geo. IV, m. 4 ; 

 Recov. R. East. 9 Geo. IV, rot. 314. 



lu Close, 47 Viet. pt. xxxiii, m. 35. 



l Proc, Sac. Antiq. (Ser. 2), V, 374-5. 



a Hilt, of Surr. ii, 244. 



