WOKING HUNDRED 



EAST HORSLEY 



between three lions' heads, the whole very rudely 

 carved. 



In the east jamb is a piscina of late 1 2th-century 

 date ; it is the square head of a former pillar piscina 

 beautifully carved with leaf ornament ; a rudely 

 pointed arch is cutout of the jamb over. The south 

 doorway is similar to the north doorway and has an 

 old arch with a moulded label, but modern jambs 

 outside. East of it is a portion of a 14th-century 

 holy-water stoup under a pointed head ; the front half 

 of the basin has been cut away. On one of the 

 stones inside are three cuttings which appear to be 

 wide sundials. The westernmost south window has 

 two pointed lights re-tooled or modernized outside. 

 The west window was inserted late in the 1 5th 

 century, and has three cinquefoil lights under a flat 

 segmental arch. It is largely glazed with heraldic 

 glass of the 1 8th century, placed there by an Earl 

 of Onslow. 



The walling is of flint with stone dressings ; diagonal 

 buttresses strengthen the angles at both ends ; the one 

 to the north-west of the nave is modern ; in the 

 modern square buttress against the south-east of the 

 nave is a stone on which is cut an early circular sun- 

 dial probably of the I zth century ; it has three circles 

 and is divided in twenty-four spaces by radiating lines ; 

 four dots mark the hour of noon and a small cross 

 that of six p.m. 



The south porch has ancient timbers ; it is open at 

 the sides, in which were formerly balusters or posts. 



The roof of the chancel is of low pitch and with 

 heavy timbers, and may date from the i^th century. 

 The nave roof is of late 15th-century date, although it 

 appears to have been reconstructed in 1716 ; the 

 wall plate has a handsome embattled cornice fixed to 

 it, probably original. 



The font has a bowl of Sussex marble, square, with 

 shelving sides, in which are arcades of shallow circular- 

 headed arches which have been partly chiselled off ; 

 it is of the earliest date of the building ; the stem and 

 base are modern. 



In the chancel are preserved, in a glass case, some 

 ancient panels of oak ; it is doubtful whether they 

 belonged to a ' table ' behind an altar or to a rood 

 screen ; but they appear to be of late 1 3th or early 

 14th-century date ; the figures upon them are un- 



doubtedly those of St. Peter and St. Paul on either 

 side of St. Thomas of Canterbury ; the two apostle* 

 bear their respective emblems, the keys and the sword ; 

 the martyred archbishop between them has his right 

 hand raised in benediction, while the left holds the 

 cross staff; there are traces of gold on the nimbus of 

 each saint, and the figures are coarsely outlined in 

 black. Much of the pewing in the western part of 

 the nave is nicely carved in dark wood imported from 

 abroad by a former Earl of Onslow. 



The six bells were all by Thomas Lester, 1741, but 

 the third, fourth, and fifth were re-cast by Mears and 

 Stainbank in 1875. One is inscribed in capitals 'At 

 propper times my voice II raies, unto my bennifactor 

 praise.' 



The communion plate includes an Elizabethan cup 

 and cover paten of the date 1569 ; also another paten 

 of 1 7 1 z given by Sir Richard Onslow. 



The registers begin in the unusually early year of 

 1536. In the first book, which is of parchment, the 

 baptisms, marriages, and burials are mixed thence to 

 1583, then written separately from 1584 to 1699, 

 followed by a short gap, the baptisms continuing 

 from 1700 to 1755, marriages 1701 to 1735, and 

 burials 1700 to 1746. In a second parchment book 

 are baptisms and burials from 1653 to 1663 and mar- 

 riages 1654 to 1657 ; there are also two baptisms of 

 1675. The third book has baptisms and burials from 

 1756 to 1807 ; the fourth has marriages from 1778 

 to 1812 ; the marriages between 1735 and 1778 

 appear to be missing. The fifth continues the bap- 

 tisms and burials from 1807 to 1812. 



The advowson of the church of 

 JDfOirSON West Clandon always descended with 

 the manor. 



Smith's Charity is distributed as in 

 CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. 



Land was purchased for the benefit 

 of the poor at an uncertain date, and vested in the 

 churchwardens (now not known). 



Balcuin left about 25 to the churchwardens 

 for the poor at an unknown date. 



William Stovall left money for bread, for the poor, 

 also at an unknown date, and Lord Onslow gave a 

 small piece of land for the same object." 



The various charities produce about 30 a year. 



EAST HORSLEY 



East Horsley is bounded on the north by Cobham 

 and Ockham, on the east by Effingham, on the south 

 by Shere and Abinger, on the west by West Horsley. 

 It measures 4 miles from north to south, and three- 

 quarters of a mile from east to west. It contains 

 1,826 acres. The elongated form is common to it 

 with the other parishes along the northern slope of 

 the Chalk, and like the others it reaches from the crest 

 of the hill across the Chalk, the Thanet and Woolwich 

 Beds, and on to the London Clay. The village is be- 

 low the Chalk or just upon its lower edge. On the sum- 

 mit of the Chalk however hereabouts occurs a bed of 

 clay with frequent flints. The village is compact and 

 well built on the whole. The Guildford and Epsom 

 road and the Guildford and Cobham line run through 

 the parish. East Horsley Station, opened in 1885, is 



nearly a mile north of the village. The station called 

 Effingham Junction is also in East Horsley, and was 

 opened the same year. 



Green Dean is the name of a farm in the parish. 

 The name occurs at an early date. John de Grendon 

 held land in East Horsley in 1305,' and Peter de 

 Grendene appears in an inquiry by Christchurch, 

 Canterbury, under Edward III.' 



Horsley Towers is a large house standing in a park 

 of 300 acres, the seat of the Earl of Lovelace. The 

 old house was rebuilt about 1745. The present 

 house was built by Sir Charles Barry for Mr. Currie 

 on a new site, between 1820 and 1829, in Eliza- 

 bethan style. Mr. Currie, who owned the combined 

 manors, 1784-1829, rebuilt most of the houses in the 

 village and restored the church. 



Part. Rtt. 1786. 



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9 Manning and Bray, Hist. ofSurr. Hi, 29. 



