A HISTORY OF SURREY 



at which time the chancel was rebuilt in a very irregu- 

 lar way, its north wall preserving the line of the older 

 chancel, while the south wall fell partly beyond that 

 of the nave. The south aisle and south chapel were 

 both built in the 1 6th century, but probably the aisle 

 preceded the chapel by a few years ; the north aisle 

 has been widened in modern times, the 13th-century 

 north doorway moved out with the wall, while the 

 stonework of the north arcade has been for the greater 

 part either recut or renewed. 



The external wrought stonework of the angles and 

 window dressings has been renewed, for the most 

 part in chalk, which is already in very bad condition ; 

 the window tracery has been renewed in Bath stone, 

 and the whole church except the tower is covered with 

 modern plaster. 



The east wall of the chancel is pierced by three 

 1 3th-century lancet windows, their inner jambs having 

 detached shafts with moulded bases and capitals, and 



WEST HORSLEY CHURCH : WEST PORCH 



pointed chamfered rear arches ; and there are two 

 contemporary lancets, set close together, at the north- 

 east and south-east, but these have no internal shafts ; 

 a plain roll string-course runs along the eastern half 

 of the chancel below the windows on both sides. 

 The third window in the north wall is of three 

 cinquefoiled lights under a pointed head filled with 

 flowing tracery of mid- 14th-century style, the tracery 

 being renewed, but the inner jambs are old and have 

 moulded angles brought out square above the window- 

 ledge by semicircular stops. Below the window is 

 a contemporary tomb recess with a feathered cinque- 

 foiled arch and a crocketed label containing a raised 

 tomb on which lies the effigy of a priest in mass 

 vestments ; his hands are broken off, and now lie loose 

 on the figure. In the opposite wall is anarch opening 

 into the south chapel and contemporary with it, of 

 very poor late Gothic detail, four-centred, and of 

 two chamfered orders. Across the chancel runs a 

 step of Purbeck marble. The chancel arch dates 



from the 1 3th century ; it has double chamfered jambs 

 and a pointed arch with chamfered bases and abaci. 

 The south chapel has an original south window of 

 three cinquefoiled lights in a four-centred arch ; the 

 jambs are of equal depth inside and out, and are 

 moulded with a wide casement moulding on both sides : 

 there are traces of a vertical joint outside, marking 

 its junction with the south aisle. The nave has a 

 north arcade of four bays, the pillars circular, and the 

 responds half round with water-moulded bases and 

 moulded capitals. The westernmost of the three 

 pillars is the only one that shows signs of age and pre- 

 serves traces of red colour ; all the rest, together with 

 the pointed arches, have a clean, sharp appearance and 

 have been retooled or renewed. The south arcade 

 has three bays with octagonal pillars, hollow-cham- 

 fered bases, and capitals of a coarse section like those 

 of the arch to the south chapel from the chancel ; the 

 arches are four-centred and of two chamfered orders. 



All the windows of the north aisle are modern, 

 the eastern being set high up in the wall and having 

 wheel tracery in a two-centred arch ; the two 

 north windows are each of two trefoiled lights with 

 tracery. The north doorway is of ijth-century 

 date with jambs of three orders, the middle one 

 with an edge roll and the other two chamfered ; 

 in the arch the middle order has a keeled edge 

 roll ; the label is grooved and hollow-chamfered. 

 The porch is modern. 



The three windows in the south aisle are coeval 

 with the south arcade, and each of three cinque- 

 foiled lights under a square head. All have been 

 partly restored. The west window is a modern 

 one of badly weathered chalk, of three cinquefoiled 

 ogee lights under a two-centred traceried head. 



In the west wall of the nave is a 1 3th-century 

 doorway entered from the tower ; its jambs and 

 arch are of two chamfered orders with a moulded 

 abacus, and grooved and hollow-chamfered label. 

 Over it is a modern doorway presumably to a 

 former gallery. The tower is of three stages, 

 setting back on the outside at each stage ; it is not 

 bonded in with the west wall of the nave, its north 

 and south walls being built against its plastered 

 face. 



The west doorway has jambs of two chamfers, 

 changing in the pointed arch to a double ogee and 

 wave mould. The tower is exceedingly plain, having 

 single pointed openings in each face of the upper stage, 

 and a curious shingled spire which is four-sided in the 

 lower half and octagonal in the upper. The west 

 porch is of wood set on a low wall of flint and stone 

 repaired with brick ; and has a cusped barge-board ; 

 the sides have lost the vertical studs which formerly 

 closed them in. 



The chancel roof is open-timbered and appears to 

 be modern ; the nave and aisle have semicircular 

 plaster ceilings with old tie-beams ; the north aisle 

 roof is modern. 



The rood screen is early 16th-century work with 

 twelve traceried bays, four of which are over the 

 central opening, which retains its double doors and a 

 moulded cornice. On either side of the chancel are 

 stalls, returned against the screen, and the south 

 chapel is closed in by screens on the north and west. 

 The font has a retooled 13th-century circular bowl 

 with tapering sides on a modern stem flanked by 

 four shafts with scalloped capitals. 



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