A HISTORY OF SURREY 



stone vault ; the vault must therefore have been 

 removed by this time if it was ever completed at all. 

 The window consists of three lancets separated by 

 wide rebated and chamfered mullions, all under one 

 two-centred rear arch ; the two jambs inside have a 

 deeply undercut roll with a somewhat formless base, 

 and stopped out below the springing. The two 

 north windows are original, and have round heads 

 with shallow rebated outer jambs, and wide inner 

 splays with engaged shafts at the angles, which have 

 scalloped capitals with grooved and chamfered abaci. 

 The two south windows are contemporary with the 

 east window ; the first is restored outside, but has an 

 inner edge roll like that of the east window ; the other 

 has plain angles. West of the latter is a 1 5th or 

 1 6th-century priest's doorway, now opening from the 

 modern vestry. The vaulting shafts divide the chan- 



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PLAN OF THE CHANCEL OF RIPLBY CHURCH 



eel into two bays ; the middle pilaster is a foot wide 

 and projects about seven inches, and has an engaged 

 half-round shaft on its face, flanked by detached round 

 shafts 5 in. in diameter, and similar detached shafts 

 stand in the angles at the east and west ends of the 

 chancel ; they all have good moulded bases with pro- 

 jecting spurs at the corners of the square sub-bases; the 

 capitals are richly scalloped and have hollow cham- 

 fered square abaci. The richest detail of the whole 

 chancel is the elaborately carved string-course running 

 round the chancel below the windows ; it is large and 

 half-round in section, ornamented with interlacing 

 spiral bands filled in with diamond-shaped leaves ; the 

 string is carried round the vaulting shafts and finishes 

 against the chancel arch. The eastern angles of the 

 chancel have shallow clasping buttresses, and there 

 are shallow buttresses behind the intermediate shafts ; 

 the two side walls are about 2 ft. 8 in. thick and the 

 east wall about 3 ft., the walling is flint mixed with 

 conglomerate with chalk dressings, and all the dress- 

 ings inside are of chalk. 



The chancel arch and the nave generally are 

 modern, excepting perhaps the rear arch of the north 

 doorway which appears to be of the I3th century ; it 

 is of chalk and has a pointed edge roll with deep 

 hollows on either side of it and another small roll on 

 the outermost edge. Three lancet windows pierce 



48 Dugdale, Mm, vi, 383. 

 Wyktham's Reg. (Hanu Rec. Soc.), i, 

 36, 66, &c.; Egerton MSS. 2031, fol. 268, 



the north wall, the doorway with a pointed head 

 coming between the second and third. An arcade 

 of four bays divides the nave from the aisle ; it has 

 round pillars and pointed arches of 13th-century 

 character. The east wall of the aisle is pierced by a 

 traceried circular window, and the south wall has four 

 windows each of three lights under traceried heads. 

 At the west end of the nave is a pointed doorway be- 

 low an organ gallery, and on the west wall is a bell- 

 cot in which hangs a small modern bell. 



The roofs are all modern, as are the altar, pulpit, 

 font, &c. 



There are no ancient monuments, the earliest being 

 two gravestones in the chancel, one to Nicholas and 

 Elizabeth Fenn, 1705, and the other to Burleigh Fenn, 

 who died in 1 708. 



The communion plate comprises a silver cup and 

 stand paten of 1 846 and a plated flagon and paten. 



The older registers are incorporated with and kept 

 at the mother parish of Send. 



The advowson of the church of 

 JDPOWSON Send was granted to the Prior of 

 Newark by Ruald de Calva." It 

 remained with the priory until the Dissolution," when 

 it was granted with the manor (q.v.) to Sir Anthony 

 Browne. It has followed the descent of the manor 

 from that time. 



The chapel at Ripley was granted to Newark Priory 

 by Ruald de Calva." Its advowson descended with 

 the manor of Send after the Dissolution, when the 

 Newark possessions were granted to Sir Anthony 

 Browne. 



The chapel was included as a chantry chapel at 

 the time of the Commissions of Edward VI, and a 

 revenue of 6 was confiscated as a chantry founda- 

 tion. The building survived and was made the church 

 of an ecclesiastical parish in 1878. 



A table in the church records 

 CHARITIES Smith's Charity, distributed as in 

 other Surrey parishes ; and the follow- 

 ing benefactions : 



A house near the church which was exchanged with 

 General Evelyn for a house at Three Ford, 177*, for 

 the use of the poor. It was probably the old parish 

 workhouse. 



William Boughton gave 40*. a year from the rent 

 of a house called Keep House. 



Sarah Hale gave 20, the interest to be for poor 

 widows. A return of 1786 says that this was lost by 

 a defaulting churchwarden. 



Dame Anne Haynes gave 300 to bind poor chil- 

 dren as apprentices. This property is now worth 50 

 a year. 



Mrs. Lcg.it gave 2.00, the interest to be devoted 

 to poor widows not receiving regular relief. 



General Evelyn gave 201. a year for the repair of 

 his monument, the surplus for the poor on Christmas 

 Day. 



1 01 d. ; 2032, fol. 74 d. ; 2033, fol. 39 d., 

 63, 69 ; 2034, foL 58 d, 87 d., 171. 

 M Dugdale, MM. Angl. vi, 383. 



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