A HISTORY OF SURREY 



two 13th-century piscina drains in a very plain tri- 

 angular-headed recess ; their projecting faces have 

 been cut away. A 1 3th-century archway opens into 

 the north aisle ; its jambs are chamfered and have a 

 moulded abacus, and the arch is pointed and of one 

 chamfered order. The south chapel or organ-chamber 

 is modern, but in its south wall is a re-used 1 5th- 

 century window of three cinquefoiled lights under a 

 four-centred head; the jambs are moulded and there is 

 a moulded label outside ; a modern pointed archway 

 opens to the south aisle. 



Both arcades of the nave are modern and each of 

 four bays ; that on the north side has piers of four 

 clustered shafts with moulded bases and capitals of late 

 13th-century style and pointed arches of two orders ; 

 the south arcade is of a later style with octagonal 

 pillars and pointed arches. The north aisle has three 

 north windows and one at the west, all of three lights, 

 the former doorway was between the first and second 

 windows, but this is now blocked and another doorway 

 inserted farther west. 



The south aisle has three re-used 15th-century 

 windows on the south, all of similar detail to that in 

 the chapel. A 12th-century round-arched doorway, 

 a good deal repaired, has been reset in the south wall ; 

 its jambs are of two orders, the inner with an edge- 

 roll and the outer square with detached shafts in the 

 angles, which have scalloped capitals with hollow- 

 chamfered abaci ; the inner order of the arch has an 

 edge-roll like the jambs, and the outer has a triple 

 band of zigzag ; the label is double-chamfered with 

 billet ornament on the inner splay. The porch is a 

 modern one of wood. 



A doorway in the west wall of the aisle opens into 

 the modern vestry, which has an outer doorway to 

 the south-west and a four-light window in the west 

 wall. 



The east arch of the tower dates from c. 1 1 60 ; its 

 jambs are square and have scalloped capitals with 

 grooved and chamfered abaci, the scallops being small 

 with vertical grooves cut in each, and the arch is 

 round and of a single square order. 



The west doorway of the tower is a 1 5th-century 

 insertion with moulded jambs and a two-centred arch 

 with a moulded label. Over it is a small round-headed 

 window, modern externally, and above this the wall 

 sets in slightly. The second story has a modernized 

 round-headed light in its south wall. The bell 

 chamber windows have been much modernized but 

 are old inside ; each is of two round-headed lights 

 within a round arched tympanum, and between the 

 lights is a round shaft with a scalloped capital ; the 

 material of the walling is of flint with stone dressings, 

 but most of the quoin stones are modern ; above the 

 tower rises an octagonal wooden spire covered with 

 oak shingles. The east wall of the chancel has been 

 coated with cement ; but the walling of the north 

 chapel is exposed, and is built of flint and small pieces 

 of ironstone conglomerate. 



The only old roofs are those of the nave and 

 north chapel ; the nave has old collar-trussed rafters 

 with plaster filling between, and the north chapel has 



collar trusses and tie-beams. All the roofs are tiled 

 except that of the north chapel, which is covered with 

 Horsham slabs. 



The fittings of the church generally, font, pulpit, 

 &c., are modern. 



In the north jamb of the archway between the 

 south aisle and chapel is set a small palimpsest brass, 

 the later figure is that of a bearded man in armour 

 of the time of Elizabeth ; on the reverse is a 1 5th- 

 century priest in mass vestments, holding a chalice 

 and host ; on the chalice is inscribed in black letter 

 ' ESTO M? JHS,' and on the host ' JHS.' The second word 

 on 'the chalice is perhaps MEUS or MIHI. On the south 

 wall of the chancel is a tiny brass representation of the 

 Nativity c. I 500, and there was formerly in the church 

 a plate with the figures of fifteen sons, part of a brass 

 of about the same date. A small brass inscription in 

 the north chapel over the arcade is to Aminadab 

 Cooper, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, 

 died 1618, 'he left behind Dorothy his wife and had 

 issue God-helpe their only son.' 



There are six bells ; the treble was cast in 1687 

 and recast in 1905 by Taylor & Co. ; the second is by 

 Thomas Swain, 1767 ; the third is like the treble ; the 

 fourth by William Eldridge, 1687 ; the fifth by Pack 

 & Chapman, 1773 ; and the tenor by John Taylor, 

 1902. 



The communion plate is modern. 



The registers date from 1562. There is a note in 

 them that they were copied by the Rev. W. Tucker, 

 vicar in 1 700, from an old book. But the marriages 

 and burials are lost from 1564 to 1610, and the 

 baptisms from 1565 to 1610, and from 1628 to 1630 

 inclusive. From 1644 to 1656 the baptisms are 

 imperfect, and from 1646 to 1656 there are no mar- 

 riages or burials. Nor are there any burials from 1678 

 to 1684. 



The advowson belonged with the 

 ADVOWSQN manor to the abbey of Chertsey. 

 Clement III (l 187-91) granted leave 

 to the abbey to appropriate the church on endowment 

 of a vicarage. The bull was recited in 1 292 "but 

 the episcopal registers show the institution of rectors 

 till 1465, when the monks of Chertsey received a 

 licence for the appropriation to them of the church 

 of St. Andrew, Cobham, which was of their own 

 advowson and was held in chief, provided that 

 they endowed a perpetual vicarage there, and dis- 

 tributed annually a certain sum of money among 

 the poor of the parish." At the Dissolution the 

 rectory and advowson passed into the hands of the 

 king, 48 who granted them to his new foundation at 

 Bisham. 49 When the house at Bisham was dissolved 

 the rectory and advowson reverted to the Crown. In 

 1 549 it was leased to William Fountayn and Richard 

 Moyn, M and in 1558 granted to William Hammond, 41 

 who presented in April, 1558. He conveyed ulti- 

 mately to James Sutton," who died in 1594." His 

 son James presented in 1615." According to Manning 

 and Bray his son James settled the rectory on his 

 marriage with Catherine Inwood in l622. M Their 

 only surviving child Catherine married first her cousin 



46 Cal, Pat. 1281-92, p. 493. 

 *' Pat. 5 Edw. IV, pt. ii, m. 21. 

 48 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 29 

 Hen. VIII. 



L. and P. Hen. VIII, xii (2), g. 1311 

 22). An inventory of the church goods 



of Cobham Church in 1549 occurs in 

 MS. of W. M. Molyneux, Hiit. MSS. 

 Com. Ref. vii, App. 6060. 



50 Pat. 3 Edw. VI, pt. v 



61 Pat. 5 & 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. iv. 



68 Winton Epis. Reg. White, fol. i la. 



446 



68 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 736. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccitl, 36. 



M Winton Epis. Reg. Bilson, fol. 42*. 



" She was patron when the Common- 

 wealth Survey was made ; Surr. Arch. 

 Coll. xvii, 210. 



