A HISTORY OF SURREY 



The font is of 16th-century date, and is one of the 

 very scarce instances of a font constructed of wood ; it 

 is octagonal, each side forming a heavily-moulded 

 panel, and the basin is hemispherical and lined with 

 lead. The stem and base are of modern stone- 

 work. 



In the vestry at the east end of the north aisle is a 

 fine old iron-bound chest of uncertain date; two of the 

 iron bands have flour de Us ends, and there are three 

 locks ; the lid is apparently of later date. The hinges 

 of the south door also seem ancient, and in the nave 

 hangs a fine brass chandelier for twelve candles, 

 which bears the names of the vicar and churchwardens 

 and the date 1737. In the chancel is a copy of this, 

 made in 1899. 



On the west jamb of the arch between the nave 

 and the south transept is a brass inscription in two 

 lines, the ends of the , lines missing : ' Here lyeth 

 buryed Willm Heith of Chabhm . . . Countye of 

 Surray Esquire who died y* xix November in the 

 yere of our Lorde God MCC. . . ' William Heath 

 was brother of Nicholas Archbishop of York. 



Eldridge, 1597. The sixth is by William Culverden 

 of London, c. 1 5 25, and bears in black-letter with 

 crowned capitals ' Sancta Mergereta ora pro nobis,' 

 with the founder's mark. The tenor is another of 

 Robert Eldridge's bells, dated 1610. 



The most interesting piece of the plate is a fine cup 

 of 1562, the straight-sided bowl being alone of this 

 date, while the fluted base and the stem with its knot 

 appear to belong to a secular cup of c. 154.0-50, but 

 have no marks on them. 



Beside this there is a paten of 1727, a flagon of 

 1755, and a large two-handled cup with a cover which 

 was made in 1787. There is also a standing paten 

 of 1840, another small paten of 1897, and a pewter 

 almsdish inscribed ' Chobham Church in Surrey 

 1712.' , 



The church also possesses two small old collecting- 

 boxes with handles and a circle of geometric ornament 

 on the top. 



There are five books of registers, the first two of 

 which have been very carefully restored and bound. 

 The first is of parchment, and contains all three entries 



Nave 



South -Aisle 



j ChaJice 



I C- lioo ^ 15'- Cent- 

 d C.-H30 E33 1866 

 Om c-1200 (S3 Rcbiult-1899 



10 3|p 3jO +O 



Scale -of -feet- 



PLAN OF CHOBHAM CHURCH 



Below this is another brass to William Soker, 

 undated, but of the I7th century, with a set of three 

 elegiac couplets in Latin. 



In the chancel is a floor-slab to Jane, widow of 

 Samuel Thomas and daughter of Anthony Fenrother, 

 1638. The arms, as here shown, are : A cheveron 

 between three terrets with three ostriches on the 

 cheveron, in a quarter a man on a tower holding a 

 banner, the whole within an engrailed border. 



Another slab is to Sir Anthony Thomas, 1 64 1 , and 

 his wife Maria, 1658, and there are several other 

 monuments to the same family. 



There is also a copper tablet, fixed in the chancel 

 in 1908, to Nicholas Heath, Bishop of Rochester 

 I S39> of Worcester 1543, and Archbishop of York 

 1555. He lived at Chobham Park in 1571, '573, 

 and 1574, and died at Chobham or in London in 

 1578, and was buried in the chancel of this church. 

 There are a number of late monuments to the Cald- 

 well family. 



In the belfry are eight bells, the treble and second 

 being by Mears & Stainbank, 1892, and the third 

 by the same firm, 1880. The fourth is by William 

 Eldridge, 1684, and the fifth and seventh by Robert 



from 1654 to 1730 ; the second has the same from 

 1730 to 1770, and is a paper book. The third con- 

 tains baptisms and burials from 1770 to 1812 ; the 

 fourth marriages from 1754 to 1783 ; and the fifth 

 marriages from 1784 to ;8l2. 



The church of ST. SAVIOUR, Valley End, is a 

 small brick building, erected in 1867, and consisting 

 of a chancel with a south vestry and organ-chamber 

 and a nave with a north porch. Over the west gable 

 is a wood bell-turret. The roofs are tiled and all the 

 internal fittings are modern. 



The parish church of HOLT TRINITY, West 

 End, is a small building consisting of a chancel conse- 

 crated in 1890, nave consecrated in 1842, and a 

 vestry built in 1906. The material is stone and 

 the style is of the I3th century. Over the west 

 end is a small bell-turret with a square spire. The 

 entrance is at the west end. 



There is also the iron mission chapel of St. Luke. 



The Domesday Survey records 



ADVOWSONS the existence of both a church and a 



chapel at Chobham, in the possession 



of the abbey of Chertsey. 65 The abbot caused the 



chapel to be repaired in 1 3 1 S, 66 but after this there 



*' V.C.H. Surr. i, 310; cp. Surr. Arch. Coll. xxi, 206. 



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68 Exch. K..R. Misc. Bks. vol. 25, fol. 179. 



