EFFINGHAM HUNDRED GREAT BOOKHAM 



and one in each end wall ; they are all of three cinque- 

 foiled lights under two-centred heads, and appear to 

 be of late 15th-century date with some modern 

 stones, though they are said to be entirely modern ; 

 they have a wide casement moulding inside and out. 



The east window of the south chapel is apparently 

 modern, and contains stained glass in memory of 

 Lord Raglan (Commander-in-Chief in the Crimean 

 War), dating from 1859/5 it consists of five cinque- 

 foiled lights with cuspecj vertical tracery above, in a 

 two-centred head ; th)6 jambs are moulded with a 

 wide hollow. / 



In the south wall its a 1 5th-century piscina with an 

 eight-foiled basin apfd stone shelf in a trefoiled ogee- 

 headed recess withi pierced spandrels, and the three 

 windows on the s/outh side of the chapel or widened 

 aisle are each of/ three cinquefoiled lights under seg- 

 m <*.s/ed_hac]&. '/ they have moulded jambs, arches, and 

 labels, and have been partly repaired with cement. 

 The doorway at the south-west corner was that to the 

 former porch ; it has two double ogee orders separated 

 by a hollow in the jambs and pointed arch. In the 

 western wall are two windows, one above the other, 

 each of two cinquefoiled lights, and of modern stone- 

 work. The blocked doorways to the former parvise 

 still remain in place ; the lower opens from the 

 narrow part of the aisle, and the upper is in the west 

 wall of the wider portion ; the stair has been re- 

 moved. The south-west window (in the narrow 

 portion of the aisle) is modern, and has two trefoiled 

 lights with a quatrefoil over in a pointed head. The 

 west window is a tiny round-headed light dating from 

 the izth century, and probably contemporary with 

 the aisle. 



The tower opens to the nave with a depressed 

 pointed arch, perhaps of late 1 2th-century date, with 

 two chamfered orders, at the springing of which has 

 been a string, now cut away. The base mould is, 

 however, preserved. In the north wall is a small 

 modern round-headed light, and the west doorway, 

 with chamfered jambs and four-centred arch, is per- 

 haps early 16th-century work. Over it is a modern 

 window of two elliptical-headed lights ; and the 

 angles of the tower are strengthened by heavy but- 

 tresses, that at the north end of the west wall being a 

 raking one of brick, while the others are old, of 

 stone repaired with brick in places ; a modern stair 

 turret rises in the north-east angle. The masonry 

 walls stop at the first floor, and the upper part of the 

 tower is of timber carried up within the lines of the 

 masonry tower on heavy oak posts from the floor, and 

 covered with modern boarding ; the parts gathered 

 in over the walls are covered with stone slabs, while 

 the tower is crowned by an octagonal shingled spire. 



Most of the walling of the church is of flint and 

 stone, but the lower parts of the chancel are faced 

 with blocks of Heath stone a crystalline sandstone 

 and the north-east angle has some very large quoins in 

 this stone, and in a pebbly conglomerate deeply 

 coloured with iron. 



The chancel has a modern plastered collar-beam 

 roof with moulded wood ribs. The nave also has a 

 plastered collar-beam roof with moulded trusses, ap- 

 parently modern. 



The south chapel roof is gabled and ceiled below, 

 and dates in part from the building of the aisle and 

 chapel ; it has an old moulded tie-beam over the first 

 arch of the arcade; the space above the tie is filled 



with modern wood tracery ; the narrow south aisle 

 has a flat ceiling, and the north aisle has a modern 

 gabled roof like the others. 



The altar table, chancel screen, pulpit and seats 

 are all of modern workmanship ; across the south 

 chapel are the remains of the lower part of a 15th- 

 century oak screen having eight bays of closed panels 

 with feathered trefoiled heads ; the main cusp points 

 had roses attached, but most of these have been 

 destroyed ; the posts and rails are moulded ; some of 

 the former have panelled buttresses on their faces ; 

 one of the panels has the remains of the original 

 painting, and the rest contain modern decoration. The 

 font has a late 1 2th-century grey marble bowl ; it is 

 square, chamfered and rounded to a circle in its lower 

 edge, with the plain capitals of four shafts cut out of 

 the solid ; the stem and base are modern. 



The oldest of the inscribed stones and monuments 

 is that in the east wall of the chancel recording the 

 building of the chancel ; it reads : ' Hec : domus : 

 Abbate fuerat : constructa : Johanne : de Ruther- 

 wyka : decus ob : Sancti : Nicholai : Anno : Mil- 

 leno : triceno bisqz : viceno : primo : SJ5S : ei 

 paret hinc sedem requiei.' 



On the rail of the old screen in the south chapel is 

 fixed a small brass inscription reading in black letter : 

 ' Pray for the soule of John Barmsdale and Marion 

 his wyf the which John desseced in August in the 

 yere of cure Lord m cccc Ixxxi whos soules Jhu 

 have m . . ' In the nave floor, near the chancel screen, 

 is a brass inscribed ' Hie jacet Elizabeth nup ux 

 Thome Slyfield ac quonda ux Georgii Brewes 

 armig'i filia Edwardi Seynt John milit' que obiit 

 xxvii die mes' Augusti A" dfii M HII C xxxiii ' ; above 

 the inscription is the figure of a lady in a cushion head- 

 dress, high-waisted loose dress, and loose hanging sleeves. 

 Under the south arch to the chancel is a brass inscrip- 

 tion : ' Here lieth buried Henry Slyfield Esq. and 

 Elizabeth his wife who was the daughter of Richard 

 Buckfold citizen of Lond : the said H. was of ye age of 

 56 yeres and deceased AnDni 1598 and had issue by 

 his wife 6 sonnes and 4 daughters.' Over it is his 

 figure in a gown and ruff, and his hands in prayer ; and 

 her figure in a tight bodice, full farthingale and ruff ; 

 below are the children in one plate. There are three 

 shields of arms, the first being Slyfield quartering 

 Weston of West Clandon, Sable a cheveron or between 

 three lions' heads razed argent ; the second has the 

 quartered coat of Slyfield impaling Buckfold, Party 

 cheveronwise argent and sable three bucks' heads 

 countercoloured with their horns or ; the third has 

 Slyfield impaling Cobb, Party cheveronwise gules and 

 sable with two swans argent in the chief and a her- 

 ring or in the foot. 



Further east is a brass inscription to Elizabeth 

 Slyfield wife of Edmund Slyfield and daughter of 

 Walter Lambert, of Carshalton ; it bears no date, 

 but from other sources the date 1597 is known. 



On the south side of the east respond of the south ar- 

 cade is a brass inscription to Edmund Slyfield, who died 

 1590 ; it has a quaint epitaph in 50 lines beginning: 



' Of Slyfield Place in Surrey soile 



Here Edmond Slyfeld lyes 

 A stout Esquier who allweyi sett 



Codes feare before his eyes 

 A Justice of the Peace he was 



From the syxt fCinge Edwards dayes 

 And worthely for vertues use 



Dyd wyn deserved prayse.' . . , 



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