A HISTORY OF SURREY 



merchant of London, son of his elder brother Samuel. 

 Thomas Lambert died in 1704, and his son, John 

 Lambert, sold Garratts to his cousin, John Ludlow, 

 whose son Lambert Ludlow died without issue, 

 leaving three sisters and co-heirs. These ladies con- 

 veyed to Isaac Hughes of London, merchant, who 

 married a Buckle of Burgh, and left a son John. 

 The estate passed shortly afterwards to the Ladbrokes, 

 and then to the Clowes, from whom it was bought 

 back by Thomas Lambert of Banstead (see Perrotts) 

 about 1850. He gave the property to his brother, 

 John Lambert, an active magistrate and great bene- 

 factor to the parish, who left one son, Wilmot Lam- 

 bert, after whose death his trustees sold it to the late 

 Mr. F. Lambert. His son, Colonel F. A. H. Lambert, 

 is the present owner. The house has a handsome 

 Queen Anne staircase and some Jacobean panelling. In 

 the chapel is a 15th-century triptych, an ancient 

 crucifix, and some pictures. The house is occupied 

 by Mrs. Davies, and used for a girls' school. 



BANSTEAD PLACE (formerly Carpenters) was 

 an estate of the Wilmots early in the I yth century. 

 It passed through an heiress to Elizabeth wife of 

 Gabriel Bestman, and afterwards to her niece, Hannah 

 Wilmot, who married Sir Samuel Prime, a well- 

 known lawyer in the reign of George III. The 

 property passed later to the Westons, and then to 

 John Motteux, of Beachamwell and Sandringham, 

 co. Norfolk, whose trustees sold it to W. S. H. Fitz 

 Roy, from whom it was acquired by John Lambert of 

 Garratts Hall. Is is now the property of the Hon. 

 Mr. Justice Neville. 



The WELL HOUSE was a farm which came into 

 the possession of the Lambert family through the 

 marriage of Mary, daughter and co-heir of John 

 Wilmot, with Sir Daniel Lambert. The latter built 

 the present dining and drawing-room, leaving the old 

 house, an early 1 6th-century building, practically in- 

 tact. It is now the residence of the Hon. Mrs. Arthur. 



NEWLANDS belonged in the 1 7th century to the 

 family of Harris, who were connected with Winches- 

 ter. Richard Harris, M.D., of Newlands, married a 

 sister of Sir Edward Bysshe, of Smallfield Place, in 



1 2 Century. 

 C 1190 to 1220. 



Scale of Ft. 



PLAN OF BANSTEAD CHURCH 

 260 



Burstow, and left a son, Thomas Harris, a secondary 

 of the Court of Exchequer, who married Anne, sister 

 of Sir Timothy Thornhill, bart., and widow of John 

 Wilmot. He died in 1727, and his son John twenty 

 years later. The property subsequently came into 

 the possession of the Aubertins, a Huguenot family, 

 one of whom, the Rev. Peter Aubertin, rector of 

 Chipstead, married a daughter of Mr. Lambert of 

 Banstead. His son, Peter Aubertin, also rector of 

 Chipstead, sold Newlands to Mr. Nisbet Robertson, 

 whose widow is the present owner. 



ALL SAINTS' church is a fine build- 

 CHURCHES ing consisting of a chancel 33 ft. 7 in. 

 by 1 3 ft. 4 in. with a north chapel z l ft. 

 6 in. by 1 3 ft. and a south chapel z i ft. by 1 3 ft. zin., 

 a nave 37ft. loin, by i6ft. Sin. with a north aisle 

 10 ft. 9 in. wide and a south aisle 1 1 ft. z in. wide, a 

 west tower 14 ft. 4 in. by 14 ft., and to the north of it 

 a vestry. The north and south entrances have porches. 

 The church has been over-restored, but is still of 

 very great interest, the nave and chancel arcades 

 being of a very uncommon type. The nave, as usual, 

 probably retains the plan of a building considerably 

 earlier than any detail now existing, the great height 

 and comparative thinness of its walls suggesting a 

 possible pre-Conquest origin. The arches of the nave 

 arcades and the west arch of the north chapel show 

 distinctive late 12th-century tooling, and are the 

 oldest features to which a date can now be given, and 

 the church must have been brought to its present 

 plan, except as regards the aisles and north-west 

 vestry, somewhere between the years 1 190 and 1220. 

 The north aisle seems to have been widened in the 

 1 5th century, the south aisle has been rebuilt in 

 modern times, and the vestry is also modern. The 

 south chapel was rebuilt in 1837, and brought to its 

 present form in 1868, and both porches are modern. 

 Cracklow mentions that the chancel was repaired in 

 1631, and the church beautified by subscription in 

 1716, and again repaired at a later date. 



An old cork model of the church in the vestry 

 shows a 1 3th-century lancet and a 1 5th-century 

 three-light window in the n rth wall of the north 



chapel, and the east 

 and south chancel win- 

 dows as of 15th-cen- 

 tury date with three 

 cinquefoiled lights. 



At present there 

 are three modern lan- 

 cets in the east wall 

 of the chancel, two in 

 the north wall, partly 

 old, and shown in 

 Cracklow's drawing, 

 and two entirely mo- 

 dern in the south wall. 

 The arcade between 

 the chancel and north 

 chapel is of two bays 

 with a very interest- 

 ing and unusual octa- 

 gonal central column, 

 the faces of which are 

 sunk and hollowed al- 

 ternately, leaving fillets 

 about an inch wide 

 on either side of 



15- Century, 

 Modern. 



