WOKING HUNDRED 



WAN BOROUGH 



The church of ST. BARTHOLOMEW 



CHURCH is a small rectangular building measuring 



inside 43 ft. 5 in. by 1 8 ft. 4 in. with a 



screen placed 1 7 ft. 8 in. from the east wall to separate 



the chancel from the nave. 



All the walls are of 13th-century date, except that 

 at the west, this having been rebuilt in modern 

 times. There is no evidence of the existence of a 

 chancel arch. The building was disused for two 

 centuries, from 1674 to 1861. 



The east window is a late 15th-century insertion 

 with three peculiar cinquefoil lights and a square 

 head without a label. The inside jambs are splayed 

 and have a flat segmental chamfered rear arch. 



In the north wall are three 13th-century lancets, 

 one in the chancel and two in the nave, the first 

 and easternmost having plain chamfered jambs and 

 head and inside splays with a semicircular rear arch. 

 The second is rather wider and has chamfered and 

 rebated jambs and head and a chamfered rear arch, 

 which with the internal splays is either modern or 

 retooled. The third window is similar to the first 

 except that the jambs are rebated only and the inside 

 stonework is either modern or has been retooled. 

 Between the first and second of these windows is a 

 13th-century doorway, originally external, but now 

 used as an entrance from the vestry, which is built 

 of wood and corrugated iron. The jambs and pointed 

 arch of the doorway are moulded with an edge roll. 



The south wall has four windows, two in the 

 chancel and two in the nave. The easternmost dates 

 from about 1330 and has two trefoiled lights with 

 a quatrefoil over and a scroll-moulded label. The 

 second window is apparently of 15th-century date 

 and has a single cinquefoiled light. The sill is low 

 down and the inside is rebated for a shutter, one of 

 the hooks for hanging it still remaining in position. 



The third and fourth windows are similar to the 

 opposite ones in the nave except that in the third 

 the jambs are chamfered only and the rear arch is 

 semicircular. 



Between these last two windows is a doorway 

 similar to that in the north wall of the chancel, but 

 wider, and having a grooved and hollow-chamfered 

 label. The jambs are modern. 



Below the sill of the south-east window is a small 

 recess with plain chamfered jambs and square head. 

 The sill is plastered, but it no doubt once held the 

 circular piscina basin which is now lying loose on the 

 window-sill above. 



To the west of this is a similar but wider recess 

 with a stone sill which was probably used as a single 

 seat. 



The west window of the nave is modern and has 

 two cinquefoiled lights and a two-centred head with 

 tracery of late 14th-century design. 



The walls are of flint in mortar with stone dressings, 

 except the west wall, which is of brick with a tile- 

 hung gable, from which projects a small bell-cot with 

 one bell. The buttresses to the south wall are modern. 

 The roof is of modern open timber-work and is 

 covered outside with tiles. 



The chancel screen has a panelled lower portion, 

 above which are six lights on either side of the cen- 



tral opening. Each light has flowing tracery in the 

 head, and the mullions and cornice are moulded. 

 The central doorway has a flat four-centred head with 

 carved leaves in the spandrels, and is of I 5th-century 

 date, but the rest of the screen is for the most part 

 modern, including all the tracery to the lights. 



All the other interior fittings are modern. There 

 are no monuments of any importance, but in the 

 churchyard outside the west wall is a long tapering 

 stone which was probably once used as a coffin lid. 



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Eiffil -A\odevi, 

 PLAN OF WANBOROUGH CHURCH 



The Communion plate is modern and is not silver. 



The first book of registers is dated 1598; the entries, 

 however, are from 1561 and consist of baptisms, 

 burials, and marriages, which continue until 1646. 

 During the Commonwealth the only entries are the 

 births of the children of a certain Joseph Freakes, but 

 after the Restoration other entries continue up to 1 674. 

 The church was early appropriated 

 ADVQWSQN to Waverley ," but it does not appear 

 in Pope Nicholas's Taxation of 1291. 

 The abbey appointed a vicar in 1327," but vicars 

 do not appear to have been instituted afterwards, and 

 it was probably treated as a donative, with perpetual 

 curates presented by Waverley without episcopal in- 

 stitution. The ' advowson ' which was granted with 

 Waverley to Fitz William at the Dissolution probably 

 means the advowson of Wanborough, for there was no 

 parish of Waverley. Richard Harding, who lived as 

 a tenant in the abbey buildings, was married and had 

 his children baptized at Wanborough, and in 1600 

 William Hampton and Joan Smith, both of Waverley, 

 were married after having had their banns published 

 in Wanborough Church. Some of the other names 

 in the fragmentary register are suspected as being of 

 Waverley, which was extra-parochial, but of which 

 this seems to have been still commonly considered the 

 church. The lay impropriators paid no regular sti- 

 pend to curates. The names of two survive for 1598- 

 1600 and 161 2-1 3, but services were often performed 

 by clergy of other parishes. By the exertions of the 

 Rev. G. C. R. Chilton, vicar 1 86 1 to 1895, a small 

 endowment fund was raised. The church was disused 

 altogether for about 200 years, but the parish always 

 remained separate, and the advowson of the now 

 restored church is in the hands of Mr. G. McKibben. 



17 A chaplain of Wanborough, Richard, witneised a nth-century deed now in the Loieley MSS. 



18 Winton Epit. Reg. Stratford, fol. loii. 



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