WOKING HUNDRED 



SEND WITH RIPLEY 



is of chalk. There is no chancel arch ; but that one 

 originally existed is proved by the remains of squints 

 on either side at the western angles of the chancel. 



The north wall of the nave contains three windows, 

 the easternmost being one of two plain lights with a 

 square head set low in the wall. The head, sill, and 

 mullion are chamfered, but the jambs are rebated as 

 well as if to receive a shutter. The other two win- 

 dows have each three trefoiled lights under a square 

 head with a moulded label. They have both been 

 restored in places. The windows of the south wall 

 of the nave are similar to those of the north just 

 described, except that the small south-east window is 

 of one light only. The south doorway has plain 

 chamfered jambs and a pointed four-centred head, and 

 the porch retains its original moulded wall plates and 

 uprights, but the lower parts have been replaced by plas- 

 tered brickwork. The cusped barge-board at the south 

 gable end is original. The tower arch is of two con- 

 tinuous chamfered orders, and in the north wall of the 

 tower is a small doorway with a four-centred head 

 which leads to the stair turret. 



In the west wall of the tower is a plain doorway, 

 much repaired, with two continuous hollow-chamfered 

 orders and a moulded label. Above it is a 1 5th-cen- 

 tury window partly restored, having 

 three cinquefoiled lights under a four- 

 centred head with a moulded label. 

 The tower is of three stages with 

 angle buttresses and a modern em- 

 battled parapet. In each face of the 

 top stage is a window with a modern 

 outer order and four-centred head of 

 two wide trefoiled lights, the tracery 

 of which is masked by modern louvres. 

 The second stage has a single cinque- 

 foiled light on the north and south, 

 the former having a two-centred head 

 and the latter one of ogee shape. 



The walls throughout are of flint 

 rubble, a few pieces of 13th-century 

 detail being built into those of the 

 nave ; some of the heavy Horsham 

 slabs remain on the lower parts of the 

 nave roof, but elsewhere red tiles are used. The nave 

 roof has old tie-beams and embattled wall plates, and 

 is plastered between the rafters ; and the tie-beam 

 at the west end of the chancel is supported on curved 

 brackets. 



The chancel screen has been rebuilt, most of the 

 upper portion being modern, but the traceried heads 

 to all the lights and part of the moulded cornice are 

 of 1 3th-century date. There are no mullions now, 

 but modern carved pendants take their place, the 

 holes where the original mullions tenoned into the 

 middle rail being filled up ; below the rail is plain 

 solid panelling. The moulded posts at each end of 

 the screen show the marks of former parclose screens 

 returning westwards. 



The font is apparently of 13th-century workman- 

 ship, but the octagonal bowl has been entirely recut ; 

 the lead lining, however, is old. One side of the 

 moulded base has been cut away. 



Over the west end of the nave is an early 17th- 

 century wood gallery with a turned baluster front, 

 now reached by modern stairs. 



In the tower is an ancient chest constructed out of 

 roughly finished log timber and bound with iron straps. 



It has two lids made out of half tree-trunks, the curved 

 surface being uppermost. 



A stone on the north wall of the chancel has a brass 

 attached to it which bears the following black-letter 

 inscription : ' Here lyeth Laurence Slyffeld gent' & 

 Alys he wyfe which Laurenc decessid ye xin day of 

 Novebr' a dni M v" xxi who! soule JhO have m'ci.' 

 Above are the figures of the man and his wife, and 

 below are three boys. 



Above this brass is another with inscription : ' Pray 

 for the Soule of S' Thomas Marteyn late Vycar of Sende 

 the which decessed the xxix day of September the yere 

 of our lord M' v xxxm on whos soule JhQ have 

 m'ci.' 



To the south of the tower in the churchyard is an 

 indent of a half-figure and an inscription plate. 



The westernmost window of the north wall of the 

 nave has in the top of its centre light a few fragments 

 of old painted glass. 



The tower originally contained a ring of five bells, 

 all cast by Phelps in 171 1 ; but three of these are now 

 missing, and one is known to have been sold. The 

 tenor was cast by T. Mears in 1803. 



The oldest piece of plate is a paten of the Britannia 

 standard, but the date-letter is worn away. It is 



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PLAN OF SEND CHURCH 



inscribed 1845. There is also a cup of 1844, a 

 flagon of the same date, and a plate or almsdish which 

 is not silver. 



There are six books of registers, the first, which is of 

 parchment, containing in the beginning entries of 

 births from 1633 to 1659 copied from an old book. 

 Following this are baptisms from 1666 to 1683, 

 marriages from 1654 to 1700 with a gap between 

 1659 and 1666, and burials from 1653 to 1700 

 with a gap as in the marriages. The second book 

 contains baptisms, marriages, and burials all from 1 700 

 to 1762, 1754, and 1764 respectively. The third 

 book contains marriages from 1754 to 1769 ; the 

 fourth baptisms and burials from 1792 to 1812 ; the 

 fifth has marriages from 1762 to 1791 ; and the sixth 

 continues them from 1792 to 1 812. 



The church of ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, RIPLEr, 

 consists of a chancel, nave, south aisle, and north porch; 

 and was rebuilt in 1 845-6, except the chancel, which 

 dates from about 1 1 60 and was intended to have a stone 

 vault of two bays, the vaulting shafts of which yet 

 remain, although it is not certain whether the vault 

 was ever completed. The east window is an insertion 

 of c. 1230 and is too high to have co-existed with any 



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