WOKING HUNDRED 



OCKHAM 



into the possession of Henry Marquis of Exeter. 50 In 

 1538 the Crown was once more in possession, owing to 

 the attainder of the marquis : " and Ockham was in 

 1 545 leased to Gregory Reavill." Edward Courtenay, 

 son of the marquis, was restored by Queen Mary as 

 Earl of Devon in 1553, but died abroad, without 

 heirs, in 1556. In 1560 the manor, then said to 

 have been lately a possession of Edward Courtenay, 

 Earl of Devon, was granted to Anthony Crane and 

 Elizabeth his wife. 53 In 1566 Crane obtained a 

 licence to alienate Ockham to Thomas Knevett and 

 Francis Vaughan to the use of John Vaughan and 

 Lady Anne his wife, with remainder to the heirs of 

 Lady Anne." The actual conveyance took place in 

 1567.** Anne Vaughan died seised in 1582," when 

 Henry Weston, her son by a previous marriage with 

 Francis son of Sir Richard Weston of Sutton "' (q. v.), 

 was found to be her heir.* 8 Henry died in 1592, 

 leaving Ockham to his son Richard, then twenty-five 

 years old." From Richard the manor passed to his 

 son of the same name 40 who in 1621 conveyed it to 

 Henry " son of John Weston, 4 ' 

 of quite a different family 

 the Westons of Albury, Send 

 in Surrey, and of Sussex. 

 Henry died in 1638, and his 

 brother Edward was found to 

 be his heir. 4 * Edward died in 

 1640 ; he is buried at Speld- 

 hurst, Kent. His son Henry 

 was Sheriff of Surrey in 1661. 

 From Henry the manor passed 

 to his son John, 44 who under 

 an Act of Parliament (9 Anne, 

 cap. 31) sold the manor to 

 Sir Peter King in 1710." His descendant, Lord 

 Lovelace, is the present owner. 



By the inquisition on the death of Henry Weston 

 in 1638 (vide supra) it appears that he held 54 acres 

 of land and two messuages in Ockham, besides the 

 manor, with tithes of hay in Pirford Mead, all late 

 the property of Newark Priory, 

 and granted by Parliament to 

 Cardinal Reginald Pole. 



Ockham Park, the seat of 

 the Countess of Lovelace, was 

 largely rebuilt by Lord Chan- 

 cellor King, who died in 1 734, 

 and more completely altered 

 by the late Lord King, ances- 

 tor to the Earl of Lovelace, 

 who died in 1833. It is a 

 fine specimen of Italian archi- 

 tecture, and the gates from 

 the Guildford road are well- 

 known examples of ironwork. 



Two water-mills at Ockham 



are mentioned in the inquisition taken at the death 

 of Gilbert de Clare in 1296 ; they appear to have 

 always descended with the manor. In 1296 they 

 were worth os. w 



WESTON of Ockham. 

 Sable a cheveron be- 

 tween three lions 1 heads 

 raxed argent. 



KING, Earl of Love- 

 lace. Sable three ipear- 

 headi argent viith draft 

 of blood and a thief or 

 viith three battleaxet 

 azure therein. 



Two fisheries worth lot/, are mentioned in Domes- 

 day ; but in 1296 there was only one, which was 

 then worth zs. 



The church of ALL SAINTS consists 

 CHURCH of a chancel 27ft. n in. by 176. with 



a north chapel 1 6 ft. 2 in. by 12 ft. 5 in., ' 

 a nave 3 1 ft. 1 1 in. by 1 8 ft. 2 in. with a north aisle 

 12 ft. 3 in. wide, and a west tower I oft 6 in. by 

 I o ft. 3 in. ; to the north of the aisle is a transept 

 12 ft. 9 in. square and a small porch. 



The plan of the nave probably represents that of a 

 1 2th-century church, the chancel of which gave place 

 at the beginning of the 1 3th century to that now 

 standing. A north aisle was added to the nave about 

 1220, and in the middle of the century the original 

 triplet in the east wall of the chancel was replaced by 

 the beautiful group of seven lancets which forms the 

 most striking feature of the church. About 1350 the 

 south wall of the nave seems to have been rebuilt, and 

 in the i 5th century the north aisle was enlarged and 

 the west tower added. 



To the north of the aisle is an 1 8th-century tomb- 

 chamber built by Peter, Lord King, whose monument it 

 contains, and in 1875 the aisle was lengthened east- 

 wards, overlapping the chancel, and a north porch 

 added. 



The walls are built of flint rubble, plastered on 

 both faces, the old external ashlar dressings of freestone 

 having been to a great extent replaced by new stone 

 or brick. The stonework of the tower is, however, 

 in great measure old and weatherworn. The roofs 

 are of high pitch and covered with red tiles, and the 

 tower has a flat leaded roof. 



The lower parts of the original east windows of the 

 chancel may be seen on the outer face of the wall 

 below the sill of the beautiful seven-light window 

 which succeeded them. The lights are graduated, 

 the middle one being the tallest, having its springing 

 line a few inches higher in the wall than the heads 

 of the lancets on either side, and the same propor- 

 tion is observed between the other lights. Outside 

 they are simply chamfered, and have no inclosing arch 

 over the group, but inside there are Purbeck marble 

 shafts on the faces of the mullions with moulded 

 bases and foliate capitals of different designs, from 

 which rise beautifully moulded arches with dog-tooth 

 ornament and labels, the whole composition being in- 

 closed by a wide chamfered rear arch of three-centred 

 form. 



In the north wall of the chancel is the semi- 

 circular rear arch of an original early 1 3th-century 

 window, in which is inserted tracery of c. 1320 

 of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil over. To 

 the west is a modern arch to the north chapel, and 

 at the west end of the chancel is a squint from the 

 chapel. 



The south wall contains two windows, the eastern- 

 most being square-headed and of 15th-century style 

 with three cinquefoiled lights and vertical tracery over, 

 only the head and jambs being old. The other win- 

 dow, c. 1320, has tracery like that in the north wall, 



"> Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 25 Hen. VIII. 

 " L. and P. Hen. Fill, xix (i), 372. 

 " Ibid. re Pat. 2 Eliz. pt. XT. 



M Ibid. 8 Eliz. pt. vi, m. 34. 

 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 9 Eliz. ; Memo- 

 randa R. L.T.R. 10 Eliz. m. 92. 

 M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cc, 60. 



1 The first of this family of Weston, of 

 Essex and Lincolnshire, to come into 

 Surrey. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cc, 60. 



M Ibid, ccxxxv, 90. 



40 Ibid, cccxxxiii, 20. 



41 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 19 Jas. I. 



361 



41 Pedigree supplied by Mr. Weston to 

 Brayley (Hiit. of Surr. ii, 86). 



48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxixvi, 

 142. 



44 Mr. Weston's pedigree. 



44 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 9 Anne. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. I, no. 1074. 



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