REIGATE HUNDRED 



NUTFIELD 



the arch is double-chamfered on both sides and has 

 no label. 



The 13th-century north arcade of the nave is of 

 three bays with circular pillars, water-moulded bases, 

 and bell capitals ; there is no east respond, the arch 

 dying on the east wall face, but on the north face of 

 the return in the aisle is a short length of chamfered 

 abacus which looks to be of earlier date than the 

 arcade, and may have belonged to an arch opening to 

 a former north transept. The west respond is half- 

 round with a capital like those of the pillars, but 

 the base is buried beneath the floor. The arches 

 are two-centred and of two chamfered orders. 



The south arcade is of three bays, and is all modern 

 except the east arch and respond, which has chamfered 

 edges and a moulded capital of 15th-century detail. 

 The pillars are circular with moulded capitals and 

 bases ; the eastern pillar having an attached shaft 

 on its south side to receive the modern arch between 

 the transept and aisle. 



All the windows of the north aisle have been 

 modernized outside ; the first and third on the north 

 are of two lights, and 

 the middle one of three 

 lights, all with traceried 

 pointed heads of I Jth- 

 century style ; the inner 

 jambs are old, as are also 

 the rear arches, which 

 are hollow-chamfered, 

 and the west window 

 has two lights of 14th- 

 century character with 

 old inner jambs and 

 arch. A modern arch- 

 way opens from the aisle 

 into the organ chamber. 



The south transept 

 has a 15th-century east 

 window of two cinque- 

 foiled ogee-headed lights 

 with old tracery in a 

 pointed head ; the jambs 

 are of two hollow cham- 

 fers, and the window 



has a moulded label outside. The south window of 

 the transept has two lights under a geometrical 

 traceried head ; the inner quoins are old, but the 

 outer stonework is all modern. Under the window 

 are two recesses each 6 ft. 3 in. long with four-centred 

 arches, doubtless sepulchral, but now empty; the cham- 

 fered jambs have broach stops at the base. On the 

 outer face of the gable of the transept is a sundial 

 dated 1758. 



The south doorway is of the 1 5th century, moved 

 out with the wall, and has moulded jambs and a 

 two-centred arch. The two south windows of the 

 aisle are square-headed, the first of three lights and 

 the second of two ; the west window is of three lights 

 under a traceried pointed head ; all three windows 

 are modern. 



The west tower is of three stories, but rises without 

 a break. It is strengthened by diagonal buttresses at the 

 western angles and has a stair-turret at its north-east 

 corner. The arch opening into it from the nave has 

 chamfered jambs and a two-centred arch of two 

 hollow chamfers with a wide hollow between, and 



the west doorway is of two hollow-chamfered orders 

 and has a four-centred head with a modern window 

 of three lights over it. The second story is lighted on 

 the north, south, and west by single trefoiled lights, 

 and the third story by two-light windows with 

 cinquefoiled four-centred heads. The diagonal but- 

 tresses are faced with stone slabs bearing inscriptions, 

 now partly hidden by the cement coating, referring 

 to some late i6th or lyth-century repairs, 139 and the 

 tower is tied by iron rods, on the straps of which 

 is the date 1 740. Later repairs are shown by a small 

 stone panel on the south side below the bell-chamber 

 window bearing the date 1 786,and this date alsooccurs 

 on several rain-water heads. Over the tower is a 

 shingled wood spire changing from square to octagon 

 above the parapet, and crowned by a weather vane 

 with the date 1767. The tower is coated with 

 cement, which has fallen away here and there, showing 

 that the parapet and upper parts of the buttresses 

 have been repaired with brickwork. The north wall 

 of the aisle, in addition to its east diagonal buttress and 

 the two at the western angle, has been strengthened 



Scale of feet 



PLAN OF THE CHURCH OF ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL, NUTFIELD 



by raking buttresses of brick between the windows. 

 The south porch is a modern one of wood. Owing 

 to the slope of the ground there are several steps 

 down from the south doorway to the floor level of 

 the aisle. 



The roof of the chancel is covered with Horsham 

 (tone slabs and has a modern wood-panelled ceiling ; 

 a moulded tie-beam across the middle appears to be 

 old. The nave roof, also covered with Horsham 

 slabs, is open timbered, a plaster ceiling having been 

 removed ; two of its tie-beams are old. The north 

 aisle has a gabled roof with collar-beam trusses, 

 formerly plastered ; the timbers are old and plain, 

 and the south aisle roof is modern. Both aisle roofs 

 are tiled. 



There is a good deal of interesting woodwork in 

 the church. 



In the chancel is a seat made up with two old 

 bench-ends with carved poppy-heads, probably of 

 early 16th-century date, and the i 5 th-century rood- 

 screen still stands across the chancel arch. Its door- 

 way has a two-centred pointed head with traceried 



189 Cracklow givrs the date a> 1594, on the north-west buttresses. 

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