A HISTORY OF SURREY 



replaced a narrower building coeval with or older 

 than the west tower. Its east wall is almost entirely 

 modern, and contains three round-headed lights with 

 a circular wheel-window over, in 12th-century 

 style. The north and south walls of the chancel are 

 for the most part old, and in each are two round- 

 headed windows, modern on the outside, but with 

 old internal jambs having shafts at the angles with 

 moulded bases and carved foliate capitals of several 

 types, c. 1 1 80. 



The rear arches are semicircular, and have moulded 

 outer orders with billet-moulded labels, which con- 

 tinue between the windows as a string-course. Below 



MICKLEHAM CHURCH : WEST TOWER AND PORCH 



the sills of the windows is another string, being in 

 section a keeled roll. 



Near the east ends of both walls are rectangular 

 lockers with plain rebated jambs and square heads, 

 fitted with modern doors ; and between the two 

 north windows is a modern doorway leading to the 

 vestries, with moulded jambs and pointed arch. 



At the west end of the south wall of the chancel is 

 a modern opening to the organ-chamber in 12th- 

 century style, and above it an open arcade of inter- 

 lacing round arches. 



The organ-chamber is circular on plan, lighted by 

 four narrow round-headed windows, and by a series 

 of small circular windows high in the wall. On the 

 west side of the chamber is a tall narrow opening to 

 the south aisle with a semicircular arch and scalloped 

 capitals. 



The chancel arch is semicircular, and is of three 

 orders, the two inner ones being modern and having 

 moulded edge rolls, but the outer order on the west 

 face is a pretty piece of late 12th-century work, with 

 a lozenge pattern with leaf-carving in the spandrels 

 between it and the label, which has a line of dog- 

 tooth ornament on the chamfer. The jambs are of 

 old stonework and quite plain, with modern scalloped 

 capitals and corbels. 



The north and south arcades of the nave are en- 

 tirely modern, and are of four bays with semicircular 

 arches and round columns having moulded bases and 

 scalloped or carved capitals, with corbels to correspond 

 at each end. The eastern bay on the 

 north side opens to the north chapel, 

 and instead of a column has a square 

 pier to take the western arch of the 

 chapel. 



The chantry has an early i6th 

 century east window of four cinque- 

 foiled lights with a traceried four- 

 centred head and a moulded label, the 

 inner jambs being worked with a large 

 casement moulding, and on the north 

 side of the window is a canopied niche, 

 now without a base ; the canopy has 

 trefoiled ogee arches with crockets and 

 finials and small crocketed pinnacles be- 

 tween. Manning and Bray note that 

 in their time there was a corresponding 

 niche on the south side. Two plaster 

 figures of St. Peter and St. Paul, now 

 in the vestry, are said to have stood in 

 these niches. 



Against the north wall of the chapel 

 is a canopied tomb, which is described 

 below ; and to the west of it a plain 

 contemporary doorway with a three- 

 centred arch ; while above it is a win- 

 dow of two cinquefoiled lights in a 

 square head. .The arch opening to the 

 aisle is modern, and corresponds to the 

 adjacent arches of the nave arcade. 



The north aisle has two modern 

 windows in its north wall, each having 

 three cinquefoiled ogee lights under a 

 square head ; and at the west end of 

 the aisle is a modern doorway. 



The three windows of the south 

 aisle are likewise modern, except the 

 small west window, which is old work 

 reset, its inner splayed jambs and rear arch being 

 perhaps of 13th-century date. 



The tcwer opens to the nave by a modern round- 

 headed arch, and has in its north wall a modern two- 

 light window of 1 2th-century design. 



In the south wall of the tower near the west end is 

 an old doorway, now leading into a cupboard in the 

 wall, but originally intended to open to the stairs to 

 the belfry. 



The 12th-century west doorway in the tower has 

 jambs of two square orders with engaged shafts having 

 scalloped capitals arid chamfered abaci ; the arch is 

 semicircular, and has a heavy roll between two plain 

 orders. It opens to a porch with small loop-lights in 

 each side wall, and a western arch with chamfered 

 jambs and a modern moulded label. 



The tower is low in proportion to its width, and 



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