A HISTORY OF SURREY 



succeeded by Sir Timothy Shelley, whose eldest son, 

 Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, was drowned in 1822. 

 Sir Timothy, at his death in 1844, was therefore suc- 

 ceeded by his grandson, Sir Percy Florence Shelley. 110 

 HOLILOND. The family of atte Holilond was 

 settled in Nutfield in the early 1 3th century. In an 

 inquiry concerning their lands, made in the reign of 

 Edward III, it was stated that during the reign of King 

 , John Denise de Monchensey '" had alienated to Regi- 

 . nald de Holilond a messuage, 42 acres of land, 8 acres 

 of meadow, 10 of pasture and I of wood in Nutfield, 

 parcel of the manor of Nutfield, to hold to him 

 and his heirs at the rent of the true value. 1 " This 

 alienation was made in 1202-3, the charter being en- 

 rolled ' in a certain missal ' of Battle Abbey, the abbot 

 i of which, Richard atte Holilond, was brother to 

 Reginald." 1 The property was afterwards held by 

 Robert son of Reginald, and John son of Robert." 4 

 Johnatte Holilond in 1349 obtained a pardon from the 

 Crown for having entered into thesaid premises without 

 licence from the king ; both his father and grandfather 

 had been similarly in fault. 1 * 5 The name of Thomas 

 atte Holilond appears as witness to a deed in 1359,'* 

 and in 1400 John atte Holilond held land in Nut- 

 field. 1 " 



The subsequent ownership of these lands is not ap- 

 parent, but they clearly had given their name to the 

 family which held them so long, and the present Hol- 

 land House, or Hall Land House, in Nutfield is the 

 survival of the name. 



The church of ST. PETER and ST. 

 CHURCH PAUL stands on a site with a steep 

 northerly slope, close to the road, in a 

 very pretty and well-planted churchyard, and some way 

 below the crest of the ridge on which the village is built. 

 It consists of a chancel 36 ft. 4 in. long by 1 7 ft 4 in. 

 wide, north vestry and organ chamber, nave 40 ft. z in. 

 by 22 ft. 3 in., north aisle 12 ft. 9 in. wide, south 

 transept loft. 3 in. deep by 14 ft. 1 1 in wide, south 

 aisle 1 5 ft. 5 in. wide, south porch and a west tower 

 1 4 ft. I in. by 13 ft. wide. All these dimensions are 

 taken within the walls. 



The plan of the nave doubtless dates from the 1 2th 

 century, but the oldest architectural details are to be 

 found in the chancel, which inclines southward from 

 the axis of the nave, and seems to have replaced the 

 12th-century chancel early in the I3th century. It 

 was about 26 ft. long originally, but was lengthened 

 10 ft. early in the 1 4th century. 



A north aisle was added to the nave about 1230 ; 

 the arcade still remains, but the aisle walls have been 

 removed at a widening of the aisle in the 1 5th century. 

 The chancel arch was widened to its utmost limits 

 early in the 141(1 century. A south transept was 

 added in the I 5th century, about 1450, and the west 

 tower is the work of the latter half of the same 

 century. The south aisle was built in 1882, and the 

 north vestry and organ chamber are also modern. 

 The tower has been repaired at different times, the 

 upper part being much rebuilt late in the 1 8th cen- 

 tury ; in recent years a great deal of restoration work 



has been undertaken, with the result that nearly all 

 the window tracery has been renewed. 



The east window of the chancel has three cinque- 

 foiled lights with tracery under a pointed head of I 5th- 

 century style, but all of modern stonework. The 

 north-east window is of two trefoiled lights with a 

 quatrefbil in the head under a two-centred arch, 

 but only the inner jambs and hollow-chamfered rear 

 arch are old. Just west of the window is a straight 

 joint in the wall, which has been stripped of it 

 plaster, marking the line of the east wall of the 13th- 

 century chancel. In the 13th-century walling is one 

 complete lancet, tall and narrow, with a plain chamfer 

 on the outer face, now looking into the vestry, and close 

 to it on the west the head of a second lancet of dif- 

 ferent detail, with an external rebate, and perhaps of 

 earlier date. It is evident that the complete lancet 

 was the eastern one of a pair, the springing of the 

 rear arch of the second window being yet visible, but 

 the window head just noticed is too near it to allow 

 for a splay of equal angle, which would be natural in a 

 pair of contemporary windows, and has either been 

 moved eastward at the insertion of the modern arch to 

 the organ chamber, or belongs to an older arrangement. 

 As at present set, it is accurately half-way between the 

 chancel arch and the east wall of the 1 3th-century 

 chancel, a fact which suggests that it is in position, and 

 that the complete lancet is a slightly later addition. This 

 is also possible from the way in which the sill of the 

 complete lancet breaks into the head of a recess in the 

 sill below, which though now much altered was 

 originally a locker with two arched openings, the east- 

 ern of which is now represented by it sill only, while 

 the western has lost its inner order and is masked 

 by a modern memorial brass hinged to serve as a 

 door to it. Two cinquefoiled arches, one large and 

 one small, open into the modern vestry and organ 

 chamber. 



Only the lower part of the 13th-century south 

 wall of the chancel remains, the upper part having 

 been rebuilt when the chancel was lengthened, with 

 three windows, two of a single trefoiled light and one 

 at the south-east of two cinquefoiled lights. Only 

 the east jamb of the western of the two trefoiled 

 lights is left, the window having given place to a 

 two-light 15th-century window, but both the other 

 windows preserve their old jambs and rear arches, 

 the external masonry being modern. Below the 

 south-east window is a 15th-century piscina with a 

 shallow half-round basin in the sill and a shelf. 

 Below the middle window is a 14th-century tomb 

 recess with jambs of two chamfered orders, broach 

 stopped, with a two-centred arch, dying on the 

 chamfer of the jambs ; in the recess is a contemporary 

 slab with a floriated cross in low relief, and on its 

 hollowed edge a partly destroyed inscription : 

 'SIRE THOM[AS DE R]OLEHAM GIST ici DEU DE SA ALMK 



EYT MERCI." 1 * 



The chancel arch is a 14th-century insertion, having 

 half-octagonal jambs with broach stops at the base, 

 and moulded bell capitals with scroll-moulded abaci ; 



150 Brayley, Hiit. of Surr. iv, 332. 



UI It seems quite impossible that this 

 can be the Denise, Anestie's daughter who 

 died in 1304. It can scarcely have been 

 her mother, Denise, wife of Hubert de 

 Anestie. It is very difficult to account 

 for, as it seems to connect the Monchen- 



seys with Nutfield before the marriage 

 of Denise with Warin de Monchensey. 

 Perhaps the inquisition is wrong in its 

 dates, but Richard was abbot 1215-35. 



1M Cat. Pat. 1348-50, p. 288; Inq. 

 a.q.d. file 288, no. 3. 



1M Chan. Inq. p.m. z Edw. Ill (2nd 

 nos.), no. 4. 



226 



134 Ibid. ; Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 24 

 Edw. I. 



1K Cat. Pat. 1348-50, p. tit; Aktrtv. 

 Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com), ii, 204. 



IM Add. Chart. 23615. 



W Feet of F. Surr. 2 Hen. IV, no. II. 



118 The complete inscription is given in 

 Manning and Bray, op. cit. 



