A HISTORY OF SURREY 



the ends carved with a single long 'palm leaf of 

 unusual character, fitted to the hollow curve of the 

 back end. The southern seat now runs no farther 

 west than the new south door. 



The four crossing arches have jambs of two stop 

 chamfered orders continuous with the two-centred 

 arches, and an abacus splayed on both edges at the 

 spring. There is a label of similar section on the east 

 side of the chancel arch. 



The crossing is covered with a stone vault having 

 wide and shallow diagonal ribs with splayed edges and 

 a beautiful carved boss at the crown. 



The north transept has two lancet windows in its 

 east wall which are similar to those of the chancel, 

 and in the north wall are three lancets with modern 

 external stonework dating' from 1854, but the inner 

 east and west jambs are original and have shafts with 

 moulded bases and capitals. The two intermediate 

 shafts are modern. The rear arches are rebated and 

 have a large roll moulding in the angle, and the 

 moulded label continues as a horizontal string. 

 Above these windows is a modern circular quatrefoil, 



All this work is modern, the transept having been 

 destroyed, as it is said, by fire in the lyth century, 

 and rebuilt in 1855. A half arch, now blocked, 

 formerly opened from the transept to the south aisle, 

 and the wall south of the arch is thickened, having 

 in it a stair entered from a door high up on its west 

 face, and looking into the aisle and leading to the 

 space above the crossing. Part of the west wall of 

 the transept projecting beyond the south wall of the 

 aisle, and containing the rear arch of the blocked 

 lancet, seems to be old, but Manning and Bray's 

 view shows no projection at the angle of the aisle. 



The south arcade of the nave is of four bays, with 

 circular columns having moulded bases and capitals, 

 and two-centred arches of two chamfered orders with 

 a chamfered label on the nave side only. Above the 

 arches, but now below the aisle roof, are three 

 circular clearstory windows, contemporary with the 

 arcade, inclosing quatrefoils and having an external 

 rebate and semicircular rear arches. 



The north arcade is a modern copy of that on the 

 south, but has no clearstory windows above it. The 



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 PLAN OF ST. MARGARET'S CHURCH, CHIPSTKAD 



and in the apex of the gable a small loop, and there is 

 a west lancet like those in the east wall, but it has 

 had its rebate cut out to widen it. In the east wall 

 of the transept near the south angle is a small square- 

 headed piscina with a circular basin, and at the east end 

 of the north wall are two lockers one above the other, 

 square-headed like that in the chancel. In the west 

 wall is a doorway formerly external, but now opening 

 to the north aisle, with jambs of two chamfered orders, 

 the outer continuous with a two-centred arch on the 

 west face, while the inner is carried up to form a 

 trefoiled head on a tympanum with a segmental soffit. 

 The priest's door on the south side of the chancel is 

 copied from this doorway. Above the arch is a 

 circular window inclosing a quatrefoil rebated for a 

 frame like the rest, the rear arch being triangular. 



The south transept has two blocked lancets like 

 those of the chancel, one in the east wall and the other 

 in the west. The east wall has also a modern two- 

 light tracery window of 14th-century design, and in 

 the south wall is a triplet of lancets more or less 

 copied from the corresponding ones in the north 

 transept, with a quatrefoil circle in the gable above. 



west doorway of the nave is modern, of 1 6th-century 

 style, replacing that shown by Manning and Bray, 

 which had a round arch with a roll moulding, shafts 

 in the jambs, and some ornament not specified on the 

 arch. It seems to have been of fairly early 12th- 

 century date, and over it was a window of three 

 trefoiled lights, now replaced by one of three cinque- 

 foiled lights with tracery in a two-centred head. 



The north wall of the north aisle contains three 

 modern two-light windows of 15th-century design, 

 and at the east end of the same wall is a doorway, 

 also modern. Between the second and third of these 

 windows is set the late 12th-century doorway already 

 referred to, with a round arch of two roll-moulded 

 orders springing from slender jambshafts with carved 

 capitals, two having the form of heads, and two 

 ornamented with foliage ; the bases are lost. The 

 arch has a label enriched with dog-tooth ornament 

 and is a great deal repaired. In the old north wall 

 of the nave there was a round-headed window towards 

 the west, and three narrow lancets farther east. 



The windows of the south aisle have modern tracery, 

 two being of 15th-century and one of 14th-century 



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