A HISTORY OF SURREY 



William Moore, under the description of 'The 

 mansion house and offices of the late Arthur Moore, 

 Esq., dec d ., being a beautifull building from the 

 design of the late Mr. Tollmen, consisting of many 

 rooms on a floor, a large hall and staircase, painted 

 by the late famous -Laguerre, with a saloon and 

 gallery, and several other rooms finely painted by the 

 same hand, particularly one wainscoted with japan, 

 with Tartarian tapestry silk. Together with the 

 gardens and park, containing by estimation about 

 100 acres, the whole being finely adorned with 

 canalls, basins, statues, vases, iron gates, pallisades, 

 etc., and laid out in the most elegant manner ; with 

 three ponds, containing the space of six acres, in 

 which are several clear and deep springs, which by 

 large engines serve the canalls, basins, reservoirs, etc., 

 and furnish the house with wdter convey'd in strong 

 leaden pipes.' 87 It was purchased by Thomas Revell, 

 agent victualler at Gibraltar and member for Dover 

 in 1734, 1741, and I747, 88 and on his death in 

 1752 his immense wealth was inherited by his only 

 daughter Jane, who married George Warren, of 



PLAN OF FETCH AM 



Sc&le-of.feet 

 CHURCH 



Poynton, co. Chester, afterwards created K.B. 89 Their 

 daughter and heir, Elizabeth Harriet, in 1777 

 married Viscount Bulkeley, 90 but in 1788 joined with 

 her father in the sale of this estate to John Richard- 

 son." Shortly after it was sold to Thomas Hankey, 

 a London banker, whose great-grandson, Mr. John 

 Barnard Hankey, holds it at the present day. 



The church of ST. MARY consists 

 CHURCH of a chancel z6 ft. by 13 ft. 6 in. at 

 the east, and 1 3 ft. I o in. at the west, 

 at which point it is flanked on the north by a 

 transept 17 ft. 4 in. by 16 ft. 10 in., and on the 

 south by a tower 12 ft. 10 in. by 10 ft. 2 in. ; a 

 nave 33 ft. 7 in. by 20 ft., and north and south aisles 

 jo ft. 2 in. wide. There is also a north-east vestry 

 and a north porch. All the measurements are in- 

 ternal. 



The west wall and the upper part of the south 

 and probably of the east wall of an early nave stil] 

 remain, and belong perhaps to the beginning of the 

 nth century, the walls being of plastered flint-work, 



with quoins and dressings of thin red bricks, no doubt 

 Roman, set in wide mortar joints. 



About 1 1 50-60 a south aisle was added to the 

 nave, and towards the end of the same century the 

 tower was built. The present chancel dates from 

 the early years of the 1 3th century ; and the tran- 

 sept seems contemporary with it. The north arcade 

 of the nave is work of c. 1 300, of unusual character, 

 but it seems probable that a north aisle was built 

 before that date, perhaps when the transept was 

 added. The tower has been much altered and 

 rebuilt in the 1 7th and 1 8th centuries, and the 

 south aisle became ruinous and was pulled down, 

 not being rebuilt till 1872. The vestry and porch 

 are modern, and a good deal of renewal of stonework 

 has been carried out in modern times. 



The east window of the chancel is of 1 5th-century 

 date, with three pointed cinquefoiled lights under a 

 two-centred arch, probably replacing an original 

 triplet of lancets, but the two north windows of the 

 13th-century work remain, tall narrow lancets with 

 an external rebate. Under the north-east window is 

 a modern doorway to the ves- 

 try, and to the east of it an 

 original locker with rebated 

 jambs and flat head, arranged 

 for two doors, modern succes- 

 sors of which are now fitted 

 to it. 



There is only one window 

 on the south of the chancel, 

 and this is modern with three 

 wide cinquefoiled ogee lights 

 under a square head ; below 

 it are three sedilia in modern 

 stonework of 1 3th-century 

 design, with detached shafts 

 having moulded capitals and 

 bases and carrying two-centred 

 arches. 



Near the east end of the 

 south wall is a piscina probably 

 of 15th-century date with a. 

 shallow rectangular basin. The 

 flat head and part of the jambs 

 are quite plain, but below a wooden shelf which has 

 been inserted the jambs have been chamfered. 



The north transept opens to the chancel by a 

 two-centred arch of two continuous chamfered orders 

 with a chamfered abacus at the springing, and is 

 lighted on the north by a pretty window of two- 

 trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil over, c. 1320. In 

 the east wall are two lancet windows like those in 

 the north wall of the chancel, and between them a 

 wide arched recess with chamfered jambs and dog- 

 tooth ornament on the angles, marking the position. 

 of the altar formerly here. 



In the north wall, east of the window, is an 

 aumbry with rebated jambs and a wooden lintel, which 

 was originally taller than at present, and at the south- 

 east of the transept is a piscina which has stop-chamfered 

 jambs and a triangular head with an old wooden shelf 

 at the springing. The basin is very shallow, square 

 at one end and semicircular at the other. 



The arch opening to the aisle from the transept 

 is quite plain and has been modernized. 



L&.te I5*centr 

 l}*- h Cent- 

 '-"Cent- 

 Ep Modern. 



8 ? Notei and Queriei (Scr. 4), ix, 307. 

 88 Braylejf, Hist. ofSurr. iv, 414. 



89 Gent. Mag. 1751, p. 44. 



90 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, ii, 74. 



288 



sl Brayley, Surr. iv, 414. 



