A HISTORY OF SURREY 



The second Lord Onslow built the house in 1731 

 from designs by Giacomo Leoni. The house is of red 

 brick with stone dressings, and has the merits of its 

 style, with large and lofty rooms and good orna- 

 ment. 



The second manor in West Clandon, represented 

 originally by the manor of William de Braose, noticed 

 above, is described under Bramley, of which it was 

 part. 



On 25 May 1530 Sir Richard Weston of Sutton 

 had licence by charter to impark his land at Merrow 

 and Clandon. The Clandon Park so formed, chiefly 

 in Merrow, was disparked later. In 1 642 a later Sir 

 Richard Weston, the agriculturist and canal projector, 

 sold this land to Sir Richard Onslow, the recusant 

 naturally giving place to the Parliamentarian, who 

 inclosed the park again. 



The church of ST. PETER AND ST. 

 CHURCH PAUL has a chancel 24 ft. I in. by 1 8 ft. 

 5 in.,nave 50 ft. 8 in. by 23 ft. 4 in., north- 

 east vestry, north tower 1 3 ft. 9 in. by 1 3 ft. 6 in. 

 and south porch ; all these measurements are internal. 



PLAN 



Scale of Fctt- . 

 OF WEST CLANDON CHURCH 



The church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 

 1086, but of this building nothing is now left. 



The earliest portion of the present structure is the 

 nave, which dates from about 1 1 80 ; it is of its 

 original size, but now only retains (of the date) the 

 north and south doorways ; the chancel is a rebuilding 

 of about the year 1200, and may have superseded 

 a small apsidal chancel to the first building, or more 

 probably the wooden chancel of the earlier Saxon 

 building which may have been left standing after the 

 nave was rebuilt in stone ; of this date a lancet 

 window in the north wall remains ; the tower was 

 probably added at the same period, but it has since 

 been re-cased and much altered. Windows were 

 inserted in the south wall of the chancel and in the 

 two side walls of the nave about 1250, and the sedile 

 in the chancel was put in at the same time. The 

 east window of the chancel is the work of about 1330, 

 three original lancets being destroyed to make room 

 for it, and it is probable that the angle buttresses against 

 this wall were work of the same period. The porch, 

 although it has since been reconstructed, may contain 

 timbers of 1 3th-century date. Much restoration of 

 the windows has taken place, and the chancel arch has 



been considerably widened ; the vestry is a modern 

 addition. 



The east window it a mid- 14th-century one of 

 three trefoiled ogee lights under a two-centred arch 

 containing cusped net tracery ; it is of two chamfered 

 orders and has a moulded label outside. The tracery 

 has been almost wholly restored with clunch and the 

 jambs partly, in Bath stone. To the north and south 

 of it in the same wall are the remains of the original 

 lancet windows. In the north wall is a complete 

 original lancet modernized outside ; under it is a plain 

 square recess with rebated edges, all of chalk ; it has the 

 holes for the hinge staples and bolts, and another deep 

 hole in its head. To the west of these are the modern 

 doorway and archway to the vestry and organ 

 chamber. 



In the south wall are two ancient piscinae ; the 

 eastern has a plain round head chamfered like the 

 jambs and a half-round basin ; it is also set higher in 

 the wall than the other, which is shallower and of a 

 square shape with chamfered edges and a three- 

 quarter round basin. Both basins have three groove* 

 in the bottom radiating from the 

 drain ; the sedile west of these is of 

 mid- 13th-century date and has an 

 engaged shaft in each jamb (between 

 two hollow chamfers) with moulded 

 base of three rounds and moulded 

 bell capital with a scroll mould 

 abacus ; the arch is of two hollow- 

 chamfered orders and has a head 

 and scroll mould label with mask 

 stops. The first of the two south 

 windows is a lancet, inserted or en- 

 larged about the same time, whilst 

 the other lancet in the same wall 

 was also replaced by the present tre- 

 foil headed light. The chancel arch 

 is modern and is pointed. 



The vestry has a two-light window 

 in its north wall and a doorway to the 

 east ; a modern arch opens into it from 

 the tower through the east wall of the 

 latter. The tower has its north angles 

 strengthened by modern square buttresses and a vice 

 rises in its south-west angle. The arch opening into 

 it from the nave is of chalk in two chamfered orders 

 without imposts in capitals ; the chamfers are 

 finished with pyramidal stops a short distance above 

 the floor. In the north wall of the tower is a 

 modern window of three lights and tracery ; there 

 was formerly a lancet in the east window, now 

 removed for the vestry arch ; the stone portion 

 of the tower has been heightened and recased in 

 modern times and has a modern cornice over which 

 is a timber bell-chamber with an octagonal spire. 

 The north doorway of the nave has a round head of 

 two chamfered orders continuous with the jambs ; 

 they are now modernized outside in chalk with stone 

 bases. The only window north of the nave is a 

 13th-century lancet either re-cut or modernized 

 outside. 



The first window in the south wall of the nave is 

 of three ogee trefoiled lights with intersecting tracery 

 and a two-centred arch with a moulded label ; the 

 tracery is of modern stone and the label in chalk. On 

 a keystone in the external arch is a curious shield 

 carved with the arms of the Westons : a cheveron 



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