A HISTORY OF SURREY 



but is entirely of 14th-century date, with a straight- 

 sided rear-arch. Its sill is carried down lower than 

 that of the south-east window. 



Between these two windows is a blocked door- 

 way apparently of 13th-century date, having plain 

 chamfered jambs and a two-centred arch, and below 

 the south-east window is a double piscina of 1 3th- 

 century date with stop-chamfered jambs and two tre- 

 foiled arches ; one drain is a quatrefoil and the other 

 circular, but the projecting portions of both have been 

 broken off. To the west is a single seat, the sides of 

 which run up to the window-sill above. 



The chancel arch is of 13th-century date and has 

 semicircular responds with moulded bases and capitals, 

 and the two-centred arch is of two chamfered orders. 

 To the north of it is the upper entrance to the rood 

 loft, and below are the remains of a i;th-century 

 canopied niche hacked^off almost flush with the wall 

 face, but still showing the mark of the dowel which 

 kept the image in position. 



The three-light east window of the north chapel is 

 modern, and to the south of it has been set a fine 



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 PLAN OF OCKHAM CHURCH 



15th-century niche from the old east wall of the 

 aisle. It has a projecting base elaborately carved 

 with foliage, shafted jambs with moulded capitals 



T and bases, and a large canopy with crocketed gables 

 and pinnacles. The north window of the chapel is 

 also modern, and has two trefoiled lights with tracery 

 in a square head. To the west of it is a small 

 modern doorway. 



The north arcade of the nave is of two wide bays, the 

 arches and the capitals of the responds being in chalk, 

 while the pillar, the responds, and the capital of the 

 pillar are of sandstone. The pillar is circular with a 

 simply moulded base and capital and semicircular res- 

 ponds to match, the base of the west respond being at a 

 higher level than the rest. The arches are two-centred, 

 with a springing line a little below the capitals, of two 

 .chamfered orders, the labels having the hawk's-bill 

 moulding characteristic of early 1 3th-century work. 

 There are marks of screens in both bays, showing that 

 the aisle was partitioned off from the nave, and the 



label of the eastern arch has been cut away for the 

 rood loft. In the south wall of the nave are two mid- 

 I4th-century windows of three cinquefoiled lights, 

 with flowing double-cusped tracery, and double- 



chamfered jambs with a moulded label which stops on 

 grotesque faces. 



Below the sill of the south-east window is a 15th- 

 century piscina with moulded jambs and cinquefoiled 

 ogee head, the projecting portion of its drain having 

 been cut away, and at the west end of the south wall 

 is a small blocked four-centred doorway coeval with 

 the tower. 



The west and only window of the north aisle is 

 modern, and has three trefoiled lights with tracery 

 over under a square head. The north doorway is 

 also modern, opening to a shallow porch, but to 

 the west of it the jamb of an older opening shows 

 in the wall. The 18th-century tomb-chamber already 

 referred to is immediately to the east of the doorway, 

 and opens to the aisle by a round-headed arch. It 

 has a vaulted plaster ceiling springing from pilasters 

 at the angles, and is lighted from the west, with blank 

 recesses on the north and east. Against the north wall 

 is set the white marble monument of Peter first Lord 

 King, 1734, with life-size figures of himself and his 

 wife seated with an urn between them. 



A 15th-century doorway with 

 moulded jambs and a two-centred 

 arch under a square head opens 

 from the tower to the nave, with a 

 very tall round-headed rear arch 

 towards the nave. The whole 

 seems to be of the date of the 

 tower, but the lower parts of the 

 wall on either side are possibly 

 older. 



The tower is of three stages, 

 with an embattled parapet, and a 

 rectangular stair-turret at the south- 

 east. In each face of the top stage 

 is a square-headed window of two 

 cinquefoiled lights, and in the 

 middle stage a west window of two 

 cinquefoiled lights ; the west door- 

 way below is of plain 15th-century 

 character. 



The chancel has a modem 

 boarded ceiling ; but the east bay 

 of the nave roof and the whole of that of the north 

 aisle are of 15th-century date, with canted panels 

 framed by moulded ribs ornamented at their inter- 

 sections with carved bosses. These take the form 

 of single roses in the aisle, but in the nave they 

 are more elaborate, and include fleurs de lis, Staf- 

 ford knots, &c. The panels are all painted with a 

 running zigzag pattern on a dark ground, now much 

 faded. The rest of the nave roof is old, but has no 

 panelling or ornament. The east wall of the nave round 

 the chancel arch from the floor of the rood loft to the 

 tie-beam retains a great deal of 15th-century colouring, 

 with a pattern of flowers on a red ground, and traces of 

 colour also remain on the back of the mutilated canopy 

 at the north-east of the nave. On the west wall of 

 the nave, to the south of the doorway to the tower, is 

 painted a line of trefoiled arches, which seems of 

 14th-century character, though the small corbelled 

 shafts from which they spring suggest a later date. 



The font now in use is modern, but placed in the 

 chancel are the remains of one of early 13th-century 

 date, consisting of a circular Purbeck-marble stem on 

 a square base-stone, on which are the moulded bases 

 of four detached shafts. In the tracery of the south- 



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