GODLEY HUNDRED 



HORSELL 



his will to trustees for sale, 56 and in 1760 George 

 Gilbourne and Anne, William Whitmore and Mary, 

 Sarah Whitmore, widow, and John Armitage and 

 Jane (evidently the heirs of Bonsey) conveyed the 

 manor to Rowland Thomlinson.* 7 After this date 

 the manor changed hands frequently. According to 

 Manning it was sold in 1774 to Sir Thomas Sewell, 

 whose family sold it in 1795 to Edmund Boehm, 38 

 the owner of Ottershaw (q.v.) in Chertsey. He went 

 bankrupt, and his estates were sold in 1820. At the 

 present time the manor of Twichen is no longer in 

 existence. Two farms, called Scotcher's and Bonsey's 

 farms, lying in the north-east of Horsell and close to 

 Chobham parish probably represent the lands formerly 

 known as the manor of Twichen. 



The church of OUR LADT consists of 

 CHURCH a chancel 29 ft. 8 in. by 1 8 ft. 7 in., with 

 north vestries and a south organ-chamber, 

 a nave continuous with the chancel 5 I ft. 10 in. long, 

 a south aisle 146. 3 in. wide, and a west tower I oft. 

 3 in. square, all measurements being internal. 



There is nothing of earlier date than c. 1320, and 

 to this period belongs the north wall of the nave. 

 The tower was added in the 1 5th century, and the 

 south aisle early in the i6th century, while the rest 

 of the building is quite modern. What the original 

 chancel was like there is nothing left to show, but be- 

 fore 1890 it was of brick, and where the organ - 

 chamber now stands there was a brick vestry. In 

 1890 the whole of the east portion of the building 

 was rebuilt, and a bay added to the nave and aisle. 

 The east wall of the aisle was originally close to the 

 piscina still remaining in its south wall. The tower 

 was entirely recased with the exception of the stair- 

 turret about 1880, and when the east end of the 

 church was rebuilt in 1890 the remainder of the 

 church was restored. 



There are several photographs in the vestry showing 

 different parts of the church before the work of 1890 

 was carried out. 



The chancel has a large five-light window in the 

 east wall and a two-light one to the north, both being 

 of 14th-century style with traceried heads. Op- 

 posite the north window are a modern piscina and 

 sedilia of three bays, each with cinquefoiled ogee 

 heads and pierced spandrels. 



At the south-west is an archway leading to the 

 organ-chamber, and a similar one in the north opens 

 to the vestry. 



There is no chancel arch, but the chancel and 

 organ-chamber are separated from the nave and aisle 

 by modern wood screens. 



The four windows of the north wall of the nave 

 are all of different date, the easternmost being a 

 square-headed 15th-century window of two trefoiled 

 lights, probably inserted to light an altar at the east 

 end of the nave ; while the next, c. 1320, has two 

 trefoiled ogee-headed lights with a quatrefoil over in 

 a two-centred arch. The third window is all modern, 

 and has two lights with tracery over of flowing 

 character, and the westernmost window is of 15th- 

 century date much restored, and has three cinque- 

 foiled lights with a square head and a moulded label. 

 Only the lower part of the jambs and the sill are 

 original. The head was once raised so as to light a gallery 

 at the west end of the nave, which is now removed, 

 and the window has been lowered again. 



The south arcade of the nave is of four bays with 

 hollow-sided octagonal columns and semi-octagonal 

 responds. The three western bays are old, and the 

 columns have octagonal moulded bases and capitals, 

 and the two-centred arches are of two hollow-cham- 

 fered orders. The modern column and respond at 

 the east have bases and capitals of different section. 

 In the south wall of the aisle are three windows ; the 

 first modern, of three lights with intricate tracery In 

 the two-centred head ; the second window, to the 

 west of this, has two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil 

 over, and is a modern copy of the 14th-century win- 

 dow in the north wall of the nave ; while the third 

 window is of 1 5th-century character, like that opposite 

 to it in the north wall, and is of three trefoiled lights 

 under a square head with a moulded label ; a part of 

 the double-chamfered jambs and the inside splays only 

 are old. The west window of the aisle is modern and 

 has three trefoiled lights with tracery over. Between 

 the first and second of the south windows is an old 

 piscina recess with a trefoiled ogee head. The basin, 

 which was apparently large and shallow, has lost its 

 projecting portion. The south doorway is between 

 the second and third of the south windows, and has 

 old plain-chamfered jambs and a two-centred head. 

 The tower is not set centrally with the nave, but 

 considerably to the south, the north face of its pro- 

 jecting north-east staircase-turret being set flush with 

 the north wall of the nave. The stair is entered 

 from the west end of the nave, and to the south of 

 it a pointed doorway opens from the nave to the 

 tower. 



In the north and the south walls of the lower stage 

 of the tower are modern windows of two trefoiled 

 ogee-headed lights with a quatrefoil over, the inside 

 jambs and rear-arches in each case being old. The 

 west doorway of the tower is original, with the ex- 

 ception of a shallow outer order which belongs to the 

 casing, and has heavy hollow-chamfered orders with 

 a large roll between. 



The tower is of three stages, embattled, and with 

 belfry windows like those in the bottom stage ; the 

 nave has old timbers in the open timber roof with large 

 tie-beams, and that to the aisle is similar, but has only 

 one old tie-beam. This roof rests on stone corbels 

 over the nave arcade. 



There are two plain old chests in the tower ; one 

 on the floor above the ringing-chamber has threi 

 iron straps with staples and two curious padlocks 

 one having the initials I.E. and the other 1.11. The 

 covers to the keyholes cannot be opened without 

 pressing aside similar covers on the opposite sides of 

 the locks ; one lock, however, has lost its covers. 



The screen between the south aisle and the organ- 

 chamber has old heads to six of its lights, of cinque- 

 foiled ogee shape with foiled pierced spandrels. 



The oak pulpit is of mid- 17th-century date, and has 

 a moulded cornice and panels carved with a diamond 

 pattern. The double west doors of the nave appear 

 to be mediaeval work, probably contemporary with 

 the tower. 



In the nave are several monuments and slabs. At 

 the east end, on the floor near the screen, is a black- 

 letter inscription in brass as follows : 'Hicjacet tumu- 

 latus John Aleyn Capellan' anime cuius ppiciet deus 

 amen' Near this is a brass to Thomas Edmonds, 

 ' citizen and mr. carpenter to the chamber and one of 



"Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 198. 



Feet of F. (K..S.B.) Surr. HiU JJ Geo. II. 



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"Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 198. 



