A HISTORY OF SURREY 



There is a large modern wooden pulpit and a white 

 marble font, the latter presented in 1902 by the 

 parish clerk. 



A print of the old church shows a large building 

 with a central tower ; from it several monuments 

 have been transferred to the present building when 

 the other was taken down. 



On the north wall is an alabaster and marble tablet 

 to Richard Kellefet of Egham, 1595, son of George 

 and Margaret Kellefet, and to his wife Cicely. He 

 was ' a most faithful servant to Hir Majestic, chief 

 groome in the removing garderobe of beddcs, and 

 yeoman also of her standing garderobe, of Riche- 

 mount ' A shield over the tablet bears, Ermine, 

 a chief azure, and a talbot passant thereon. On the 

 east wall of the south aisle is a mural brass to Anthony 

 Bond, 1 576, his wife and two sons. He was a citizen 

 and writer of the court letter of London. The arms 

 above the monument are, Argent, two bends sable 

 with a crosslet sable in the cantle. On the same wall 

 is the very interesting inscription recording the build- 

 ing of the old church in 1327. + HEC : DOMUS : 



EFFICITUR : BAPTISTE : LAUDE : JOHANNIS : || BIS- 

 DECA : SEPTENIS TRECENTIS : MILLE : SUB : ANNIS : 



|| 3^?I : QUAM : STATUIT : ABBAS : EX 



JOHANNA : II DE : RUTHERWYKA : PER 

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TERRAS 



DICTUS I ET : AMPNES. 



Over the gallery stairs at the north-west angle of the 

 nave is a monument to Lady Cicely Denham, and 

 Eleanor Moor, first and second wives of Sir John 

 Denham. Their half-figures are shown coloured and 

 in high relief in a circular panel about which is a 

 pilastered and pedimented frame of alabaster and 

 marble. One of the women holds an infant in her 

 arms, and the figure of a boy is shown half out of the 

 frame. The design is very good and effective, but 

 the execution is hardly equal to it. Above are the 

 arms of Denham Gules a fesse indented ermine, im- 

 paling Sable a fesse indented with three molets on the 

 fesse. Over the other stairs to the south-west is a monu- 

 ment to Sir John Denham, without any memorial 

 inscription, with a rather more elaborate architectural 

 treatment and a most curious figure composition of 

 very considerable merit. The plinth, on which is 

 inscribed ' Ex ossibus armati,' has a frieze in high relief 

 of skeletons emerging from their shrouds within a 

 tomb whose sides are breaking up in all directions ; 

 two of the figures, evidently meant for Sir John 

 Denham and his wife, have reassumed their flesh. 



Above this in complete relief is the nude and 

 bearded figure of a man rising from his tomb, obviously 

 a portrait of Sir John ; a shroud still partly covers his 

 head and shoulders, and on his coffin is written ' Prae- 

 terita sperno.' Above is an entablature carried by 

 Corinthian columns, on which are two angels blowing 

 trumpets, with the words ' Surge a Somnis.' Another 

 17th-century monument, to Sir Robert Foster, it 

 hidden by the organ. He was Chief Justice of the 

 King's Bench, and died in 1663. His bust is in a 

 circular frame, with shields of arms above and on either 

 side. The upper shield has the arms of Foster Ar- 

 gent a cheveron between three bugle-horns sable 

 quartered with Argent a bend engrailed sable with 

 three harts' heads cabossed or thereon. The other 



shields bear (l) Quarterly gules and argent four scallops 

 counterchanged, and (2) Quarterly or and gules a 

 bend vair, which are the arms of Burton and Sack- 

 ville respectively. In the chancel are several good 

 modern monuments to the family of Gostling. 



The tower contains six bells, cast in 1819 by 

 T. Mears. 



The church plate consists of a cup of 1 6 1 8, inscribed 

 in a dotted line as the gift of Adrian Moore and 

 bearing the arms, a fesse, three pierced molets thereon ; 

 a standing paten of the same date with similar inscrip- 

 tion and heraldry but in an incised line ; a cup of 1 793, 

 and a very handsome flagon, in a curiously shaped 

 leather case of 1749. There are also two standing 

 patens or salvers of German or Flemish workman- 

 ship and 16th-century date, the bowls of which are 

 elaborately engraved with figure subjects, one repre- 

 senting David harping, the other Christ in the house 

 of Martha. The latter is signed r}-B. 



The first book of the registers contains marriages 

 from 1560 to 1 666, baptisms from 156010 1669, and 

 burials from 1592 to 1651. The second book has 

 all entries from 1653 to 1709 in the case of marriages, 

 and to 1711 for the other entries. The fourth book 

 has all entries from 1 7 1 1 , marriages running to 1751, 

 baptisms and burials to 1771. Marriages are sepa- 

 rately continued from 1754 to 1812, and a sixth book 

 has baptisms and burials from 1771 to 1812. 



CHRIST CHURCH, Virginia Water, consecratedin 

 1 838, is cruciform, of brick with pointed arches, a tower 

 and stone spire. The chapel of ease of St. Simon 

 and St. Jude, Englefield Green, was built in 1859. It 

 is of stone in 13th-century style, with a west tower. 

 A cemetery adjoins it. 



In 1291 the churches of Chertsey, 

 4DVOWSONS Egham, and Chobham were together 

 valued at 63 6/. %J., and the 

 vicarage of Egham at ^9 6/. 8</. lss This appears to 

 be the first reference to the church, which must, 

 however, have existed before this date. It was 

 in the hands of the monks of Chertsey from its 

 foundation until the dissolution of the abbey. The 

 vicarage was formally ordained by the abbot in 1333 : 

 the vicar, Robert de Wanynden, and his successors 

 were to have a mansion well and honestly built, with 

 the adjacent croft called Thorpeshull, containing 

 1 5 acres of arable land, a piece of land called 

 Denacre, a small meadow called Thachmede, pasture 

 called Wynclesworth Parva, and various other small 

 parcels of land. Half the tithes coming from 20 

 acres of land towards Staines, formerly of Richard 

 Barentin, were also granted to him. 136 Augmenta- 

 tion of the vicarage was made in 1421.'" In 

 the survey of the abbey's possessions, taken in 

 I535, IM the rectory of Egham was valued at 17. 

 Both rectory and advowson were surrendered to the 

 king in I537- 139 The rectory was granted to the new 

 foundation at Bisham in the same year," but reverted 

 to the Crown once more on the final suppression ot 

 Bisham Monastery in July 1538. Edward VI granted 

 the rectory of Egham to John Poynet, Bishop of Win- 

 chester, in 1551,'" and John White, who was bishop 

 in 1558, also rejeived a grant of it, together with 

 the advowson of the vicarage, from Queen Mary. 1 " 



1Ma Pictures show a Norman door to 

 the old church, which was not therefore 

 entirely built in 1327. 



Popt Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.}, 206*. 



Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 25, foL 40. 



W Ibid. fol. 4.1. 



W Palor Bed. (Rec. Com.), ii, 56. 



" FeetofF.Div.Co.Trin.29 Hen.VIII. 



426 



" L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xii (2), 4.69. 

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

 "" Ibid. 5 & 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. IT, 

 m. 6. 



