A HISTORY OF SURREY 



son John, who died in 1503," leaving only daughters. 

 Wisley passed to his cousin Richard Covert, who died 

 in 1547." The manor then became the property 

 of Giles Covert, a distant cousin of Richard, who re- 

 tained possession until his death in 1 5 56," when he was 

 succeeded by his brother Richard.* 6 Richard Covert 

 in 1594 joined with his son Anthony in conveying 

 the manor to Sir John Wolley and Elizabeth his wife, 

 daughter of Sir William More." On the death of 

 .Sir John in 1 596 his son and heir Francis, then 

 thirteen years old, succeeded him." Francis died 

 without lawful issue in 1609, leaving descendants of 

 his father's three sisters-in-law as his heirs." Wisley 

 passed to Sir Arthur Mainwaring, son of his mother's 

 sister Anne, who was in possession in 1610.* 



Sir Arthur conveyed the manor in 1 64 1 to Sir Robert 

 Parkhurst," who died in 1651. His son died in 

 1674, and in 1677 it was sold to Denzil Onslow." 

 It passed under his will, after his widow's death 

 in 1729, to Thomas Lord Onslow, and early in the 

 igth century it was exchanged for the manor of 

 Papworth in Send with Lord King,** whose descen- 

 dant the Earl of Lovelace is the present owner. 



EH U' h Century 



m 10* 

 m c. 1600 . 



El AVodem. 



40 JO 



'Scale of Feel*. 

 PLAN OF WISLEY CHURCH 



A mill and a fishery were attached to the manor 

 At the time of Domesday ; they do not, however, 

 appear again.* 4 



In 1252 Robert de Briwes received a grant of free 

 warren in his demesne lands of Wisley, provided that 

 the lands were not in the king's forest. 34 Wisley, 

 partly on the west bank of the Wey (old river), was 

 to that extent in the forest of Windsor. 



In 1199 King John granted the Earl of Leicester 

 the right of free chase in Wisley ; M and various mem- 

 bers of the royal family seem to have enjoyed rights 

 there at different times." 



The dedication of the church of W1S- 

 CHURCH LET has been lost. It is a very small 

 building consistingof a chancel 1 5 ft. 7 in. 

 by 1 1 ft. 4 in., and a nave 31 ft. 5 in. by 146. I in., 

 both of late I zth-century date, to which has been added 

 a. wooden north porch, probably in the 1 7th century, 



and a small modern south vestry. The church was 

 restored irNi872. 



The east wall of the chancel has a two-light window, 

 c. 1600, with^a transom, set in the splayed jambs of 

 the original round-headed 1 2th-century opening, the 

 head of which has remains of ' masonry pattern ' 

 decoration, every third course being ornamented with 

 four-leaved flowers as a diaper. The north and south 

 walls of the chancel have each two 12th-century 

 round-headed windows, repaired in the heads and 

 sills, with splayed jambs and semicircular rear arches, 

 also having remains of colour. At the south-east 

 of the chancel is a square patch of the diaper 

 pattern left free from whitewash, giving it the effect 

 of a cross. At the south-west there is a blocked 

 square-headed window low down in the wall, which 

 seems to be a 13th-century insertion. 



The chancel arch has jambs and semicircular arch 

 of one plain order with a chamfered abacus at the 

 springing, and on the west face of the jambs are 

 incomplete two-centred arched recesses, adjoined by 

 others in the north and south walls of the nave ; they 

 seem to be of 1 3th-century date, and were designed 

 to give more room for the nave altars. In 

 the north recess is a small star, the remains 

 of painted decoration. 



The side walls of the nave have each 

 one window which is similar to the east 

 window of the chancel, and the north 

 doorway has been almost entirely restored 

 in Bath stone, the only old parts being the 

 1 2th-century label, and the inner jambs 

 and splayed head. The outer jambs are 

 of two recessed orders with detached shafts 

 having moulded bases and scalloped capi- 

 tals, and the semicircular arch has zigzag 

 ornament. The north porch is of plain 

 timber construction, the lower portion 

 being filled with modern brickwork. 



The round-headed doorway to the vestry 

 in the south wall is quite plain, and seems 

 to be modern. Near its east jamb is a low 

 round-headed recess of uncertain date, and 

 west of the doorway is a consecration cross 

 painted on the wall, which seems to be one 

 of the original set. In the west wall of the nave are 

 two round-headed windows with original inner jambs 

 and rear arches, but modern outside, with small 

 shafts in the jambs. Over the west end of the nave 

 is a small wooden bell-turret containing one bell, and 

 capped by an octagonal spire which, with the sides of 

 the turret, is covered with shingles. All the walls 

 are built with a dark brown ironstone conglomerate 

 roughly plastered, and have no dressed stone angles, 

 and the roofs, which retain much of their old timbers, 

 are tiled. The internal fittings are all modern except 

 a late 16th-century wrought-iron hour-glass bracket 

 fixed on the wall near the pu pit. 



The plate comprises a cup of 1713, a paten of 

 1714, and a plated flagon. 



There are two books of registers, the first containing 

 entries of baptisms, marriages, and burials from 1666 

 all mixed together ; after which follow separately 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxiii, 263. 



84 Berry, Suu. Gen. 321. 



85 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cziv, 42. 

 * Ibid. 



*> Feet of F. Surr. East. 36 Eliz. 



98 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ), ccxliz, 74. 



M Ibid, cccxxxiv, 60. 



o Feet of F. SUIT. Mich. 8 JM. I. 



81 Ibid. Trin. 17 Chas. I. 



M Ibid. 29 Chas. II. 



380 



M Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr, iii, 

 no. M V.C.H. Surr. i, 328* 



K Cat. Chart. R. 1226-57, P- 39 1 - 

 * Col, Pat. 1327-30, p. 459. 

 7 Cal. of Close, 1346-49, p. 566, 



