A HISTORY OF SURREY 



the jambs outside have been partly restored with 

 cement. 



The south doorway appears to have been renewed 

 in chalk, and has a pointed head and jambs of a single 

 chamfered order. The west window is of two tre- 

 foiled lights with a quatrefoil over in the pointed head, 

 and is entirely modern. Below it is a blocked late 

 16th-century doorway of two chamfered orders in 

 red brick with a four-centred arch. 



In the north aisle is a small 1 3th-century piscina 

 next to the respond with a mutilated round basin. The 

 east window of the aisle is all modern except its inner 

 jambs, which are of chalk ; it has two trefoiled lights 

 under a pointed head inclosing a quatrefoil. On the 

 north side are a doorway and a square window of two 

 lights, and at the west a doorway into the vestry, which 

 is lighted by a north window of two lights and a single 

 west light. 



The walling of the nave is of flint and stone, some 

 of the flints in the south wall being set more or 

 less in herringbone fashion, and the masonry has a very 

 early look about it ; this wall has been strengthened 

 by modern buttresses of brick and flint. The chancel 

 walls are also of unbroken flints, and have similar 

 modern buttresses. 



The roofs of the chancel and nave are gabled and 

 have open collar trussed rafters, which were formerly 

 plastered on the under side. The aisle has a modern 

 lean-to roof. Above the west end of the nave is a 

 square wood bell-turret supported on posts from the 

 floor of the nave ; the posts against the west wall are 

 old, but the eastern pair are modern ; the turret is 

 covered with oak shingles and is crowned by a four- 

 sided spire, also shingled. 



The altar table is a modern one of oak. The altar 

 rails, date from the last half of the I7th century 

 and have turned balusters of good section flanked by 



scrolled brackets. A modern desk in the chancel also 

 contains some pieces of 17th-century carving of a 

 honeysuckle pattern. The pulpit is modern. The 

 font dates from the i8th century and is of stone, 

 with a small cup-shaped bowl on a turned baluster 

 stem. 



There are three bells : the treble is a pre-Reformation 

 bell from the Reading foundry, c. 1500, inscribed 

 'Sancte Toma or' ; the second is by Eldridge, 1679, 

 and the tenor by R. Phelps, 1737. 



The communion plate includes an Elizabethan cup 

 and cover paten of I 569, also a cup of 1 66 1 ; a paten 

 of 1776, a standing paten of 1675, of which it is pos- 

 sible that the foot is older than the top, and an electro- 

 plated paten of 1883. 



The earliest book of the registers contains baptisms 

 from 1558 to 1707, marriages to 1690, and burials to 

 1711 ; the second continues the baptisms to 1 754 and 

 marriages and burials to 1787 ; the third has all three 

 from 1788 to 1812. There is also a vestry book 

 from 1591. 



The church of East Clandon, 

 ADVQWSQN which is mentioned at the time of 

 Domesday, was, like the manor, 

 held by Chertsey Abbey until the Dissolution. 10 

 Henry VIII granted it to Sir Anthony Browne with 

 the manor, with which it has descended ever since. 



Smith's Charity is distributed as in 

 CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. Greethurst's 

 Charity, consisting of 20, was sup- 

 posed to have been left by a person of the name resi- 

 dent in East Clandon, the name occurring in the 

 registers. The interest was given to the poor. 



A convalescent home for children suffering from 

 hip disease, called 'Welcome,' was founded in 1902. 

 It is in connexion with the Alexandra Hospital, 

 London. 



WEST CLANDON 



Clandun (xi cent.) ; Clandon Regis (xiv cent.). 



West Clandon is a small parish 4 miles east-by- 

 north of Guildford. It is bounded on the north by 

 Send and Ripley, on the east by East Clandon, on the 

 south by Albury, on the west by Merrow. It measures 

 2 miles from north to south and rather over half a 

 mile from east to west. It contains 1,003 seres. 



The parish meets Albury on the top of the chalk 

 down, and extends over the northern slope of the 

 chalk, across the Thanet and Woolwich Beds, on to 

 the London Clay. The church and village, according 

 to the usual rule, lie just below the chalk, or on its 

 extreme boundary. The village is scattered along a 

 road from north to south with many picturesque old 

 cottages. Clandon Downs, on the chalk, are still 

 partly open common. The Guildford and Epsom 

 road runs through Clandon. It was made a turnpike 

 road in 1758,' and diverted in places out of the 

 narrow ravine into which, as usual, the old unmade 

 road was worn down. The old line can be seen in 

 places in this and the neighbouring parishes by the 

 side of the modern road. 



Clandon station, on the Guildford and Cobham 



line, opened in 1885, is at the north end of the 

 village street, and the line passes through the parish. 



The old maps mark ' Common Fields ' on the chalk 

 downs. The only inclosures, however, recorded are 

 of the Park (see below). 



The Woking Water Works are in West Clandon 

 parish. They draw water from the chalk, and supply 

 not only Woking but the two 

 Clandons, the two Horsleys, 

 part of Merrow, Send, and 

 part of Worplesdon. The 

 works have seriously diminished 

 the flow of springs on both 

 sides of the chalk range. 



At the time of 



MANORS the Domesday 

 Survey (TEST 

 CL4NDON was held of Ed- 

 ward of Salisbury by a certain 

 Hugh ; Fulcui had held it in 

 the time of the Confessor.* 



The later mentions of the overlordship represent it as 

 belonging to the family of Giffard of Brimsfield.* 



GITTABD of Brimi- 

 field. Gules three liont 

 faisant argent. 



*>Wykcham't Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 

 i, 138. 



1 Stat. 31 Geo. II, cap. 77. 

 V.C.H. Surr. i, 3253. 



346 



Ch 

 (ist no: 



lan Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill, pt. ii 

 :>.), no. 75 ; ibid. (Ser. 2], ii, 10. 



