EFFINGHAM HUNDRED 



LITTLE BOOKHAM 



Benjamin Maddox his brother and heir, then aged 

 5 months.* 8 Benjamin was created a baronet in 

 1675," and in 1684, in a court-book for the manor of 

 Effingham East Court, is stated to hold the manor of 

 ' Brewers Court ' M (evidently a corruption of Braose 

 Court). Benjamin died in 171 7," leaving two 

 daughters, the younger of whom, Mary wife of 

 Edward Pollen, inherited this manor. In 1727 

 Benjamin Pollen son of Mary suffered a recovery 5> of 

 the manor, and died in 1751, leaving a daughter 

 Anne, who died unmarried in 1764. She bequeathed 

 this estate to her step-mother 

 Mrs. Sarah Pollen, with re- 

 mainder to Rev. Thomas Pol- 

 len, son of her grandfather 

 Edward Pollen, by his second 

 wife, with remainder to George 

 Pollen, son of Edward Pollen 

 of New Inn, another son of 

 Edward the grandfather. 



Mrs. Sarah Pollen died in 

 1777, and the estate came to 

 the said Thomas, and a few 

 years later, on his dying with- 

 out male issue, to the said 

 George." George died in 

 1812, and was succeeded by 

 his grandson, Rev. George 



Augustus Pollen, who died in 1847, and was suc- 

 ceeded by his son John Douglas Boileau Pollen." 

 Mr. Henry C. W. Pollen is now lord of the manor. 



The church of LITTLE EOOKH4M, 

 CHURCH of unknown dedication, is a small build- 

 ing consisting of a chancel and a nave 

 all under one roof, measuring 59 ft. 3 in. by 1 7 ft. 9 in., 

 with a wooden bell-turret at the west end. On the 

 north side of the chancel is an organ-chamber, and 

 further west are the vestries. To the south of the 

 nave is a porch. 



The north and west walls of an early 1 2th-century 

 aisleless nave, to which a south aisle was added about 

 the year 1 1 60, are still standing, but the chancel 

 which was contemporary with it was pulled down 

 in the 1 3th century, and replaced by another of the 

 same width as the nave, the east wall of the nave 



POLLEN of Little Book- 

 ham. Azure a bend co- 

 t'ssed or between six lo- 

 zenges argenteach charged 

 taith a scallop sable and 

 with six scallops vert on 

 the bend. 



ScaJe - of feet- 



PLAN OF LITTLE BOOKHAM CHURCH 



being entirely removed. By the latter half of the 

 1 5th century the south aisle was perhaps in bad 

 repair and was pulled down, the spaces between the 

 columns of the arcade being walled up. A 13th- 

 century window, no doubt from the old aisle, has 

 been set in one bay of the blocking. 



The vestries, porch, and organ-chamber are modern, 

 the latter having been added in 1901. 



The east window of the chancel is a modern inser- 

 tion of 13th-century design, and has three high tre- 

 foiled lancets within a two-centred outer arch. The 

 internal jambs and mullions have shafts with moulded 

 capitals, bases, and rear arches. 



In the north wall of the chancel is the modern 

 arch to the organ-chamber, copied from the 12th- 

 century south arcade. The organ-chamber has modern 

 single east and west lights, but the square-headed 

 north window of two trefbiled lights is of 1 5th- 

 century date, and has been moved from the north wall 

 of the chancel. There are three other windows of 

 this type, one in the south wall of the chancel, the 

 head and sill only being old, and the other two at the 

 north-east and south-east of the nave, the north-east 

 window having a modern head. At the south-east of 

 the chancel is a piscina with two drains, probably of 

 1 3th-century date, over which is a four-centred, 

 cinquefoiled head with sunk tracery in the spandrels, 

 of the 1 5th century. 



At the south-west is a blocked window which 

 shows outside as a single light, with a trefoiled ogee 

 head of 14th-century date. The groove for the glass 

 and the holes for the window-bars remain in the 

 reveals and soffit. 



The north-east window of the nave is set in an 

 arched recess reaching from the apex of the window 

 to the floor, 9 ft. 6 in. wide, doubtless designed to 

 give more room for the north nave altar ; similar 

 recesses occur in several churches in the neighbour- 

 hood. To the west of it is a single-light 14th- 

 century window like the blocked one in the chancel. 

 Near the west end is a third north window of early 

 12th-century date, a narrpw deeply-splayed round- 

 headed light, which now looks into the vestry. In 

 the west wall of the nave is another original window, 

 and beneath it a block of masonry of comparatively 

 modern date, added as a buttress. 



The arcade in the south wall of the nave is of four 

 bays with large circular columns, the bases of which 

 are hidden, but the scalloped capitals with hollow 

 chamfered abaci show both within and without the 

 building. The columns project from the wall on the 

 inside only, being completely covered on the outside. . 

 The arches are semicircular of one order, chamfered 

 towards the nave, but externally square, and flush 

 with the wall face. The 15th-century window in 

 the blocking of the first bay has been described ; that 

 in the second bay is a 13th-century lancet with a 

 keeled moulding to the inner jambs and arch, and a 

 chamfered label, the moulding ending in simply- 

 moulded bases. In the western bay are two modern 

 round-headed lights, with detached shafts to the 

 inside jambs, of 12th-century design. The south 

 doorway is 1 5th-century work, with plain chamfered 

 jambs and two-centred arch. 



48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), cccclxxxvi, 



* 



49 G.E.C. Baronetage, IT, 74. 



* Add. MSS. 23751, fol. 5. 

 61 G.E.C. Baronetage, iv, 74. 

 M Recov. R. Mich. : Jai. II, rot. 279. 



337 



M Manning and Brajr, Hist, of Surr. ii, 

 705. 



" Burke, Peerage. 



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