A HISTORY OF SURREY 



The entrance to the vestries, opposite the south 

 doorway, has plain square jambs and semicircular 

 arch, the stones being old on the nave side, and is the 

 original north doorway of the nave much altered. 



The walls of the main building are of flint plastered 

 over, except in the case of the west wall, and the 

 gable over it is of weather-boarded timber running up 

 to a square bell-turret which has a pointed, shingled 

 roof. All the other roofs are tiled, and the nave and 

 chancel roofs inside are panelled with modern board- 

 ing ; but two of the tie-beams are old, and a third 

 one has been cut away. 



The modern stone pulpit is lined with 17th- 

 century carved panels, and other carved woodwork of 

 the same date has been used in the vestry door. 



The font is circular, with a peculiar clumsy outline, 

 the bowl being held 'together by cleverly-designed 

 modern straps of iron and copper. All the other 

 fittings are modern. 



There is one bell in the turret, but it bears no 

 mark by which its age can be told. 



The plate is modern. 



The registers date from 1636, but are imperfect in 

 the earlier part. 



The churchyard is small, with entrances on the east 

 and west sides. At the west end of the church is a 

 very fine yew tree of great age, and to the north there 

 are two large cedars, besides other trees. 



In 1306 the advowson of the 

 church of Little Bookham was in- 



ADVOWSQK 



eluded in the fine confirming the grant of the manor 

 to Ralph de Camoys and Margaret his wife by Mary 

 de Braose," and the presentation of the living has 

 continued with the owner of the manor from that date 

 down to the present day. In 1535 the rectory was 

 valued at 10 161. 6d.* from which was deducted 

 9/. %d. for procurations and synodals paid to the 

 Archdeacon of Surrey. In 1657, a project having 

 been formed for uniting this parish with that of Great 

 Bookham, the jurors commissioned to make necessary 

 inquiries reported the living to be worth 50 a year." 

 This scheme was, however, abandoned. 



Smith's Charity is distributed as in 

 CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. Sir Benjamin 

 Maddox, lord of the manor, who died 

 in 1717, left the rent of certain tenements in All 

 Hallows Lane, London, one-half to the rector and 

 his successors, four-eighths in equal parts for the 

 repair of the church and churchyard fence, the use of 

 the poor, the repair of roads and bridges, and to the 

 parish clerk 'for the better setting and singing of 

 psalms in the church,' and for reading the testator's 

 will on some Sunday between All Saints and 

 Christmas." 



The tenement is now a stable in All Hallows 

 Lane, let for twenty-one years at l^o, which is duly 

 paid in the proportions stated." 



Three almshouses were erected by Edward Pollen 

 in 1730. They do not seem to exist at the present 

 day. 



" Feet of F. SUIT. 34 Edw. I, no. 1 34. 

 * Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, j. 



7 Surr. Arch. Coll. xvii, IO2. 

 M Char. Cam. Rep. ziii, 47$. 



S ' J Information from Mr. C. A. Cook, 

 Charity Commissioner. 



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