WOKING HUNDRED 



WEST HORSLEY 



1669 and was succeeded by his son John. John, 

 clerk to the council, married Penelope daughter of the 

 Earl of Northampton, and died in 1704. He left 

 three sons : Edward, who died unmarried in 1726, 

 John, who left daughters and died in 1742, and 

 William, who succeeded his brother and died in 

 1749.*" He left West Horsley by will to Henry 

 Weston, son of John Weston of Ockham. 4 ' Weston 

 died in 1759, and was succeeded by his son Henry 

 Perkins. After Henry's death in 1826 the manor 

 passed in turn to his sons Ferdinand Fullerton and 

 Charles Henry Samuel. 60 The latter died in April 

 1 849,*' leaving his nephew Henry Weston, father of 

 the present owner, as his heir. The manor is now in 

 the possession of Mr. Henry Macgregor Weston, of the 

 ancient Surrey family of Weston of Weston in Albury 

 and Ockham, not to be confounded with Weston of 

 Sutton who held land in West Clandon (q.v.). 



West Horsley Place, lately the residence of Mrs. 

 Fielder, is also the property of Mr. H. M. Weston, 

 who himself resides at Cranmere. West Horsley Place 

 used to be commonly known as the Sheep Leze, from 

 the flat meadow in front of it next the road ; but West 

 Horsley Place is the name in the 1 6th century. It is 

 a large red-brick building which has been much 

 altered from time to time. Some parts of the back 

 are of timber, and possibly of 1 6th-century date, but the 

 front was rebuilt in 1 749. It faces south-east, and it 

 has projecting wings at each end, which, however, 

 have been shortened. The west wing originally had 

 a long gallery, which has since been divided up into 

 rooms. The front is of two stories, separated and 

 crowned with large moulded brick cornices. The 



upper story is divided into bays by projecting pilas- 

 ters with moulded bases and Ionic capitals. Over the 

 centre is a large gable, and the wings have smaller and 

 plainer gables. All the windows have square heads 

 and wood frames. 



It appears to have been largely rebuilt in the early 

 1 7th century by the second Lord Montagu, who 

 resided there. The two wings formerly projected 

 farther than they do now : foundations exist outside 

 them. Probably Montagu built the gallery in the 

 west wing. Henry Weston who succeeded in 1749 

 is said to have made alterations. 51 He probably cut 

 down the wings, destroying the gallery, and built 

 the present 1 8th-century brick fapade. It was again 

 altered in the igth century. 



The church of ST. MART THE 

 CHURCH riRGIN has a chancel 31 ft. I o in. by 

 1 6 ft. 2 in., south vestry, south chapel 1 6 ft. 

 by 1 3 ft. I o in., nave 47ft. 3 in. by 19 ft. 8 in., north 

 aisle 1 6 ft. 6 in. wide, north porch, south aisle 1 3 ft. 

 I o in. wide, west tower 12 ft. loin, square, and a 

 west porch ; all these measurements are internal. 



The plan is very irregular and difficult to analyse, 

 the centre line of the tower being about I ft. to the 

 north of that of the nave, which is itself 1 5 in. north 

 of that of the chancel. The tower, which is of the 

 1 2th century, is built against the west wall of the nave, 

 which is therefore of earlier date than the tower. 

 The length of the nave, and the line of its north wall, 

 probably represent those of an early aisleless nave, and 

 the north wall of the chancel may also stand on the 

 foundations of an equally early chancel. 



A north aisle was added to the nave about 1210, 



WEST HORSLIY CHURCH FROM THE SOUTH-WEST 



m Gent. Mag. 1750, p. 43. 



<9 Manning and Brty,Hisf.afSfrr. 111,41. 



60 Brayley, Hist. ofSurr. ii, 79. 



51 Gent. Mag. (New Sen), xxxi, 66*. 



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61 Manning and Bray, Hist. ofSurr. iii, 



