A HJ STORY OF SURREY 



Harding," who thus acquired the whole. Hence- 

 forth it descended as Claygate in Ash (q.v.). 



In 1290 William of Wyke was reported to have had 

 without charter, from time immemorial, assize of bread 

 and ale and view of frankpledge in the manor of Wyke. 65 

 The church of ST. MARY consists 

 CHURCHES of a chancel 42 ft. I in. by I 5 ft. 7 in., 

 with a north chapel 28 ft. 5 in. by 

 1 4 ft., a modern north-east vestry and south chapel ; a 

 nave 41 ft. 4 in. by 21 ft. 6 in. with north and south 

 aisles 9 ft. 4 in. and 6 ft. 8 in. wide respectively ; 

 a western tower 14 ft. by 16 ft. 9 in., and a 

 south porch. The nave and tower are faced with 

 Heath stone, the north and south chapels with 

 flint, and the former has, like the chancel, some iron- 

 stone conglomerate in its walls. The whole church 

 has been much over-restored, and in consequence 

 it is now almost impossible to assign a date for the 

 oldest part of the church. The chancel, however, is 

 probably of fairly early 13th-century date, and the 

 north chapel seems to be of about the same time. 

 The nave arcades and aisles appear to date from the 

 middle of the same century ; and about the middle of 

 the 1 5th century the west tower was built and the 

 clearstory added. The porch, though much restored, 

 is more than a century later, the date 1591 being 

 still faintly discernible. In the middle of the 1 7th 

 century the whole church was re-roofed, and in modern 

 times the north vestry and south chapel were added, 

 a new chancel arch inserted, and the arcade between 

 the north chapel and chancel built. 



The east window of the chancel is of late 14th- 

 century style with modern tracery of two cinquefoiled 

 and one trefoiled light, with a two-centred head and 

 flowing tracery. On the north is a modern arcade of 

 three bays opening to the north chapel, and on the 

 south, at the east, is a window of two cinquefoiled 

 lights under a square head which, though much 

 restored, is of 15th-century date. West of this are 

 three modern sedilia and a modern doorway and an 

 arcade of two bays. 



The north chapel is lit on the east by a lancet of 

 which a few quoin stones are old, high up in the wall, 

 two modern north windows of 15th-century detail, 

 and a 1 3th-century lancet on the west, partly blocked 

 by the aisle roof. In the north wall are two ogee- 

 headed tomb recesses, now empty, of mid- 14th-century 

 date. Between the chapel and the north aisle is a 

 plain chamfered arch with a few old stones in its jambs. 



The south chapel is entirely modern with a two- 

 light window on the east and on the south two 

 two-light windows and one single light. 



The nave is of three bays and has arcades with 

 round columns and half-round responds, moulded 

 capitals and bases of curious profile, the mouldings 

 having been much cut down, and two-centred arches 

 of two chamfered orders. Like all internal work here 

 they are of chalk ; the plaster edges towards the nave 

 are finished in scallop pattern, after an early fashion, 

 but are here modern. 



The tower arch is of two hollow-chamfered orders 

 with a moulded capital at the springing line and 

 shafted and moulded jambs, very fine and massive work 

 in chalk. On a stone set in the north side of its east 

 face is an inscription in 15th-century letters : 

 richarde exford made 

 xiv fote of yis touer. 



The clearstory has, on either side, a single trefoiled 

 light between two two-light windows, all under square 

 heads. 



Both aisles have two two-light windows in the side 

 walls, with square heads, perhaps 15th-century work 

 renewed, and in the west wall of the north aisle is a 

 modern lancet. 



A sketch of the church made in 1774 by William 

 Cole shows these windows as apparently of late 14th- 

 century date. At the south-east of the aisle is a plain 

 pointed piscina. Between the windows is the south 

 door with a plain modern four-centred head. 



The south porch is a plain open timber one, 

 a good deal restored. On the tie-beam over the 

 entrance are faintly visible the royal initials E.R., 

 the date 1591, and also the initials H.T. The 

 sides are filled with modern arcading of 14th-century 

 style. 



The tower is of three stages built in Heath stone 

 with an embattled parapet, and is surmounted by a 

 small open lantern of 18th-century date, said to have 

 been brought there from the rectory stables, and 

 absurdly out of proportion. The belfry windows are 

 of two cinquefoiled lights under a four-centred head. 

 The west window is of 15th-century date, much re- 

 stored, of five lights with sub-mullions and smaller lights 

 over and a wide hollow external reveal. The west 

 door, of the same date, and also much restored, has 

 moulded jambs and head in two orders, the inner 

 being four-centred and the outer square. The tower 

 has a turret staircase on the north-east and diagonal 

 buttresses. 



The fittings of the church are largely modern. The 

 font is of marble and of 18th-century date with a 

 very graceful outline. The 18th-century notes re- 

 ferred to above, however, contain a sketch of a square 

 font on angle shafts with an arcade on the bowl of 

 pointed arches, apparently of 13th-century date. 



The roofs are all apparently of the same date, 

 except those which are modern, and on the moulded 

 wall-plate of the north chapel is carved ' R.R. I.C. 

 C.W. 1650. R.K.' They are all open and quite 

 plain. The seating is all modern, but there is an 

 extremely fine pulpit of late 1 7th-century date with 

 moulded and raised panels and acanthus enrichment. 

 This is said to have come from Eton College. 



In the windows of the church is a quantity of 

 stained glass mainly of 15th-century date, but some 

 earlier. In the windows of the north aisle are 

 two small 14th-century figures under contemporary 

 canopies, and a kneeling priest in a cassock, ovei 

 which is a red cloak and a brown hood. This is 

 of the 15th-century, but the head of a bishop here 

 is a piece of 14th-century work. In the same window 

 are two shields : Argent three gimel bars gules im- 

 paling azure a cross argent ; and Gules a fret or on a 

 chief azure a lis or probably three lis originally. 



In the south aisle are the following : the arms of 

 King Henry VIII impaling the augmented arms 

 granted on her marriage to Anne Boleyn, which are : 

 Quarterly of six; I. Lancaster; 2. Angoule'me ; 

 3. Guienne ; 4. Butler quartering Rochford ; 

 5. Brotherton ; 6. Warenne. Another shield is that 

 of Robert Bennet, Bishop of Hereford 1602-17: 

 Argent a cross gules between four demi-lions gules 

 quartered with paly or and vert. This last is dated 

 1633. England quartered with France also appears, 



M Feet of F. SUIT. Mich. 26 & 27 Eliz. 



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