A HISTORY OF SURREY 



The tower arch is of two moulded orders, the inner 

 resting on moulded half-octagonal capitals and shafts, 

 the outer dying into the walls. 



The tower is of flint and stone with patched 

 diagonal buttresses. It has a west door, a two-light 

 west window, belfry lights, and a brick parapet, all 

 suggestive of 18th-century work, and appears to have 

 been rebuilt, partly with the old materials. 



The early monuments of interest are one brass to 

 Edward Carleton, 1608, and a tablet of the same date 

 to Lawrence Tomson. 



The bells are eight in number, the treble, second, 

 and tenor by G. Mears, 1859, the last being a bell of 

 1670 recast; the third by R. Phelps, 1730; the 

 fourth by Lester and Pack, 1756 ; the fifth a 15th- 

 century bell from the Wokingham foundry, inscribed, 

 ' Ora Mente Pia Pro Nobis Virgo Maria.' The sixth 

 is by William Eldridge, 1712, and the seventh by 

 Robert Mot, 1588. 



The present plate, consisting of two cups, two 

 patens, a flagon, and an almsdish, was given in 1843 

 to replace a set which was stolen. 



The registers date from 1610. 



ALL SAINTS' Church, Eastworth Road, is of red 

 brick with Bath-stone facings. It consists of a chancel, 

 nave, and south aisle divided from the nave by an 

 arcade with pointed arches. 



CHRIST CHURCH, Longcross, was built c. 1 847 by 

 Mr. William Tringham, the principal landowner in 

 Longcross. The church is of brick and stone, with a 

 turret on the south side. The body was lengthened 

 and a chancel added in 1878. 



HOLT TRINITr Church, Botleys and Lyne, was 

 built in 1 849. It is a small cruciform church of stone, 

 of 13th-century design, with a central tower. Lady 

 Frances Hotham presented the site. 



CHRIST CHURCH, Ottershaw and Brox, was built 

 by the late Sir Gilbert Scott, in 1 4th-century style, of 

 brick and stone, with a tower and spire. The whole 

 cost was borne by SirT. Edward Colebrooke, bart., who 

 further gave 1 ,000 towards the endowment. A ring 

 of bells was also given by Mr. William Edward Gibb 

 of Sheerwater Court, in 1 885, in memory of his father. 



The church ofSr./Vt/L,Addlestone,builtin 1838, 

 is of brick with stone dressings, with a tower, the 

 details of which are quite hidden with ivy. The 

 windows are pointed. It was enlarged in 1857 and 

 restored in 1883. The site was given by Mr. G. 

 Holmes Sumner. 



The iron church of ST. 4UGUSTINE, Weybridge 

 Road, was built in 1891. 



ALL SAINTS', Woodham, is a picturesque stone 

 church in the middle of the pine woods near the 

 confines of Chertsey and Horsell, built in 1893. 



A vicarage of Chertsey, with an en- 



ADVOITSONS dowmentof6 1 3;. 4^., is mentioned 



in the year I2<)l. m The church be- 



longed to the abbot and convent, and remained in their 

 hands until John Cordrey, the last abbot, gave up his pos- 

 sessions in 1 5 3 7. 159 The vicarage was formally ordained 

 in 1331 ; 19 the vicar and his successors were granted 

 the house and certain lands belonging to the vicarage 

 and oblations from the church. He was not required 

 to pay any pension to the abbey, and was entitled to 

 eat in the abbey at the abbey's expense on Rogation 

 days and at Easter. 191 Augmentation of the vicarage 

 was made in 1 402, as the provision made for the vicar 

 was found to be inadequate. He was henceforth to 

 receive tithes of the ' townships ' of Crockford and 

 Woodham, 19 * and, in addition, all tithes from the 

 working artificers and merchandises of the parishioners; 

 tithes of the fishing of the parishioners, unless done in 

 the private waters of the abbey ; tithes of milk, butter, 

 cheese, cream, eggs, and pigeons ; and half tithes of 

 geese, honey, wax, hemp, apples, pears, onions, garlic, 

 and all things titheable if they grew in the gardens of 

 the parish. Various exceptions to the foregoing were 

 made. The vicar was to pay all synodals, martinals, 

 and tenths to the king for the portion of the vicarage. 198 

 The rectory and advowson of the vicarage became 

 vested in the Crown in July 1537.'" In December 

 of the same year the king granted the rectory to the 

 new foundation at Bisham," which, however, was 

 dissolved in six months. It remained in the Crown 

 until 1551, when Edward VI granted it to John 

 Poynet, Bishop of Winchester, 196 who was deprived of 

 his see on the accession of Queen Mary, in whose 

 reign Cardinal Pole appears to have had a grant of 

 this rectory. 197 A lease of it had been held since 1535 

 by Henry Gyle, who held it under the Abbot of 

 Chertsey and the Bishop of Winchester. 198 The lease, 

 renewed by Mary and Elizabeth, 199 expired in 1587, 

 when Elizabeth granted the rectory to Thomas 

 Horsman for three successive leases of twenty-one 

 years each.* 00 Horsman presumably surrendered the 

 leases, as in 1607 James I granted the rectory, in- 

 cluding great and small tithes worth ^14, to Richard 

 Lydall and others,' 01 and again in 1622 to Lawrence 

 Whitaker. The advowson of the vicarage was 

 granted in 1558 to John White, Bishop of Winches- 

 ter,* 03 who was, however, deprived in 1559, when 

 his lands were sequestered.* 04 The advowson was 

 in the possession of Peter Arpe before i624.* 5 It 

 is probable that he acquired the rectory also, as his 

 son held both rectory and advowson in 1 644,** and 

 both were henceforth held together. They remained 

 in the possession of the family of Arpe or Orby until 

 I727,* 07 when General Robert Hunter presented to 

 the church.* 08 He had married Elizabeth Orby, sister 

 and heir of Sir Charles Orby.* 09 Their children pre- 

 sented in 1737, and Thomas Orby Hunter, their son, 

 in 1758." Advowson and rectory were sold in 1764 

 to Sir Joseph Mawbey,* 11 who presented in 1787,"' 

 his son Sir Joseph doing so in 1805."* The advow- 



188 Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 206. 



" Cal. Pat. 1281-92, p. 493 j r.C.H. 

 Surr. ii, 9 ; Exch. K.R. Misc. Bk. vol. 

 25, fol. 39 et seq. ; Valor Eccl. (Rec. 

 Com.), ii, 56 ; Cott. MS. Vitcll. A. xiii ; 

 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 29 Hen. VIII. 



>Exch. K.R. Misc. Bki. voL 25, 

 fol. 39. 



191 Add. MS. 2482, fol. 21. 



1M Exch. K.R. Misc. Bka. vol. 25, 

 fol. 39*. 



l Add. MS. 24827, fol. 21. 



1M Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 19 

 Hen. VIII. 



" L. and P. Hen. fill, xii (2), 469. 

 198 Pat. 5 Edw. VI, pt. vi, m. 26. 

 W Ibid. 8 Eliz. pt. ii, m. 32. 



198 Ibid, i Mary, pt. xi, m. 37. 



199 Ibid. 8 Eliz. pt. ii, m. 32. 



800 Ibid. 36 Eliz. pt. i, m. 7. 



801 Ibid. 5 Jas. I, pt. xx, m. t. 

 808 Ibid. 19 Jas. I, pt. x, m. 9. 



808 Ibid. 5 4 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. iv, 

 m. 6. 



412 



* y.C.H. Hana, ii, 73. 



805 Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



406 Cal. of Cam. for Comf. 3054. 



"W Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.) ; Feet of F. 

 Surr. HiL 32 & 33 Chas. II ; ibid. Div. 

 Co. East. 3 Will, and Mary. 



808 Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



809 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 230. 



810 Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



" Close, 4 Ceo. Ill, pt. v. 

 818 Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 

 " Ibid. 



