A HISTORY OF SURREY 



by 29ft. 1 1 in., south aisle 1 2 ft. 8 in. wide, south 

 porch, and west tower 1 2 ft. 9 in. square all inside 

 measurements. 



The earliest part of the building dates from the 

 beginning of the 1 2th century, at which time it con- 

 sisted of an aisleless nave, the present one, and a chan- 

 cel ; the latter was probably smaller than the present 

 chancel, which is a rebuilding of about a hundred and 

 twenty years later. The lower part of the existing 

 tower was also added in the 1 3th century, about 1 240, 

 and may have had a timber upper stage until the pre- 

 sent stone addition over it was built about 1340. 



The east window of the chancel is an insertion of 

 the second quarter of the 1 4th century, and is a fine 

 example of the style ; it is set rather to the south of 

 the axial line of the chancel, and this may have been 

 a piece of subtlety on the part of the builders to make 

 it appear central with the nave, as it will be noticed 

 that the centre line of the nave passes through that of 

 the window, which it would not have done had it 



The 14th-century east window is one of three trefoiled 

 lights under a two-centred arch filled with flowing 

 tracery, now modern ; it has two chamfered orders 

 outside and a scroll-mould label ; the inside jambs 

 are old and the pointed rear arch is chamfered. In 

 the north wall is a plain square locker, partly restored ; 

 the 1 3 th-ceotury lancet in this wall has its glass two 

 inches from the outside, but a groove in the jambs 

 shows that it had formerly been set farther in. On 

 the south side are two original lancet windows like 

 that opposite. Below the first is a modern arched 

 recess with an old sill having a piscina drain in the 

 west half, and a plain surface on the east, while be- 

 tween the windows is a blocked doorway not visible 

 outside owing to the modern coating of cement ; it 

 has a segmental arched head inside of square section 

 like the jambs, and is probably contemporary with the 

 windows. At the west end of this wall is a low 

 window of a single trefoiled light with much deeper 

 chamfered jambs outside ; it has been a good deal 



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FLAN OF WOKING CHURCH 



been in the middle of the wall. The large window 

 in the north wall of the nave is of the same period, 

 but has modern tracery. At the beginning of the 

 1 5th century the south aisle was added, with the 

 present arcade, and at the same time the chancel arch 

 was widened to its utmost limits. Soon after this the 

 rood loft was set up and a passage way pierced through 

 the wall above the east respond, the bases of the 

 chancel arch being cut to accommodate the screen. 

 Two other windows were inserted in the north wall 

 in the same century, the easternmost evidently to 

 light the north nave altar. 



The west gallery was put up in 1622, and the 

 south porch was probably added at the same time ; 

 when the modern vestry was built the 1 3th-century 

 lancet, displaced by the organ arch, was reset in its 

 east wall. A certain amount of necessary restoration 

 to several of the windows has been carried out and 

 other work done to put the building in good repair. 

 The only entrance to the church (a fairly large one) 

 besides the small door in the vestry is that in the west 

 wall of the nave, approached through the tower. 



knocked about, but is probably a 14th-century 

 insertion. 



The vestry has a three-light window in its north 

 wall, the reset 13th-century lancet already mentioned 

 in its east, and a doorway to the west. In the 

 vestry are preserved two bases of small shafts contem- 

 porary with the early nave, and one 13th-century 

 base. 



The chancel arch has semi-octagonal jambs with 

 moulded bases and capitals of a heavy section, the 

 latter with ogee abaci ; the wall above is evidently of 

 the date of the arch and not older work pierced, and 

 the arch is of three chamfered orders, the inner order 

 considerably wider than the others. 



The first of the four north windows of the nave is 

 a 15th-century insertion of two trefoiled lights under 

 a square head with sunk spandrels ; the window is set 

 low in the wall and the wall below the sill thinned 

 to form a recess for the nave altar. The second 

 window is a large 14th-century insertion of three 

 lights ; the outer order of the double chamfered 

 jambs is old, but the tracery is modern ; the inner 



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