A HISTORY OF SURREY 



hospital certainly existed in the reign of Henry III ; 

 but in the licence for its suppression in 1436 the 

 foundation is attributed to an unknown Bishop of 

 Winchester. 08 It is quite possible that the land had 

 been part of the Wateville manor of Esher. It extended 

 into Walton on Thames, Thames Ditton, and West 

 Molesey. 



In 1436 the hospital became so impoverished that 

 it could no longer support itself, and was therefore 

 united, with all its possessions, to the hospital of 

 St. Thomas the Martyr, Southwark. 6 ' The rolls of 

 the courts held by the master of St. Thomas's 

 at Sandon in 1467-8 are extant. 70 In 1538 the 

 master and brethren of the hospital conveyed the 

 manor of Sandon and parsonage of Esher to the 

 king in exchange for other parsonages, lately monastic 

 property. 71 The manor remained in the hands 

 of the Crown, and was, leased by Queen Elizabeth 

 to Elizabeth Nolle in 1577, under the name of 

 the manor of Sandon Chapel. 7 ' In 1603 James I 

 granted the manor to John Earl of Mar, 73 but five 

 years later the king resumed it, granting the earl other 

 lands in exchange. 74 Charles I in 1630 granted San- 

 don Manor to Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester," 

 who died in l632. 76 From him it descended to his 

 nephew Sir Dudley Carleton, who with his wife Lucy 

 and his elder brother Sir John Carleton, the heir-at- 

 law of the viscount, conveyed the manor to William and 

 Gerard Gore as the manor of Sandon and the manor 

 of Sandon Chapel. 77 Courts were held by William and 

 Gerard Gore till 1 640, and by William Gore only 

 till 1659. In 1665 and 1675 John Gore appearsas 

 lord, in 1768-9 courts were held by John and Gerard 

 Gore, in 1684 and 1692 by John Gore only. 78 In 

 1694 Sir William Gore, Benjamin Dolphin and 

 Tabitha his wife, daughter and heiress of Gerard 

 Gore, conveyed to John Gore, 79 whose wife Joanna 

 sold it in 1715 to Charles Earl of Halifax, 80 who had 

 become Lord Lieutenant of Surrey in the previous 

 December, but died in May 1715, about the time of 

 the completion of the sale. He was succeeded by his 

 nephew George, second Earl of Halifax, who entered 

 'into a contract for the sale of Sandon to George 

 Tournay, then a resident at Esher. Tournay died 

 before the purchase was completed, and after some liti- 

 gation the estate was conveyed in 1740 to Marsh 

 Dickenson and Henry Laremore in trust for the 

 co-heirs of Tournay. A partition of the property 

 was made, the manor falling to the share of Na- 

 thaniel Bateman, and the old buildings and Sandon 

 Chapel to Mrs. Catherine Jen- 

 kin. In 1741 the manor was 

 bought by Arthur Onslow, 

 Speaker of the House of Com- 

 mons, who died in 1768. In 

 1780 his son and heir George, 

 Lord Onslow and Cranley,sold 

 it to Sir John Frederick, bart., 

 of Burwood Park, from whom 

 it passed to his second son and 

 successor,Sir Richard Frederick, 

 who died without issue in 

 1873." 



FREDERICK, baronet. 

 Or a chief azure <with 

 three do-vet argent therein. 



Sandown House, the seat of Mr. J. P Currie- 

 Blyth, J.P., belonged in 1870 to Mr. Spicer of Esher 

 Place. The Sandown Park Racecourse Company, 

 which held its first meeting in 1875, has acquired 

 some of the land. 



The property is described as consisting, at the time 

 of Lord Dorchester's death, of the manor of Sandon, 

 and houses, chambers, &c., in the manor, belonging at 

 the time of the Dissolution to the hospital of St. Thomas 

 of Southwark, called ' le Master's lodgings,' to wit, a 

 parlour and a chamber built above it, a small kitchen, 

 and a garden, and the two chambers above the said 

 chapel.' " 



CHRIST CHURCH is a completely 

 CHURCHES modern structure, built in 1853-4, 

 and consists of a chancel with north 

 vestry and organ chamber and a south chapel or pew 

 belonging to Esher Place ; a large nave with north 

 and south aisles and porches, and a west tower sur- 

 mounted by a broach spire. The whole church is 

 in 13th-century style, and contains no old work of 

 any sort except one monument brought from the old 

 church. This is on the wall of the south aisle and is to 

 Richard Drake, who died in 1603, who was ' one of the 

 Queries (i.e. Equerries) ofOur late Soverane Elizabets 

 Stable.' He married Ursula Stafford, and had one 

 son, Francis. Above are three shields. In the centre 

 a shield of seven quarters, arranged four and three ; 



(1) Argent a dragon gules for Drake ; (2) Argent on 

 a chief gules three molets argent ; (3) Gules on a 

 fesse argent two molets gules ; (4) Ermine on a fesse 

 indented azure three crosslets argent ; (5) Ermine 

 three bars azure ; (6) Azure six lions rampant or, 

 three, two, and one ; (7) Argent a cheveron azure. 

 On the dexter side is a shield of six quarters ; (i) and 

 (6) Or a cheveron gules with a canton ermine ; 



(2) Party fessewise gules and azure a lion rampant 

 or; (3) Azure, two bars or with three molets gules 

 on each ; (4) Azure a cross argent ; (5) Or ermined 

 sable a fesse azure. On the sinister is the first shield 

 given above impaling the second. The crest over the 

 first shield is a clenched hand. The monument 

 itself is in the form of a small Corinthian order in- 

 closing an arched recess in which is the kneeling effigy 

 of a man in complete armour with ruffs at the neck 

 and wrists. In the north aisle is a wall monument to 

 Leopold Duke of Albany, died 1884, with his arms 

 of England with the difference of a label of three 

 points argent having three hearts gules thereon, and 

 the arms of Saxony in pretence. In the tower is 

 another modern monument, erected by Queen Victoria 

 to Leopold King of the Belgians, 1865, 'in memory 

 of the uncle who held a father's place in her 

 affections.' 



The tower contains eight modern bells. The 

 church plate is also modern and consists of two 

 chalices, two small and two large patens, a flagon, an 

 almsdish and a spoon, all silver-gilt. 



The first book of the registers is of paper and con- 

 tains marriages from 1691, burials from 1678, and 

 baptisms from 1684, all entries running to 1695. 

 The second book is in part a duplicate of the first and 

 contains marriages from 1688 to 1754, burials from 



68 Pat. 14 Hen. VI, pt. i, m. 4. Ibid. 



" Ct. R. Surrey, portf. 205, no. 4. 



7 1 Close, 30 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, no. 9. 



'" Pat. 20 Eliz. pt. i. 



7 Pat. i Jas. I, pt. xiii, in. 10. 



74 S.P. Dom. Jas. I, xxxiv, ji. 



7* Pat 5 Chas. I, pt. v, m. 14. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxv, 89. 



Tl Feet of F. Surr. East. 12 Chas. I ; 

 Close, ii Chas. I, pt. xxi, no. I. 



" Ct. R. quoted by Manning and Bray, 

 op. cit ii, 749. 



450 



7 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 6 Will, and 

 Mary. 



80 Ibid. East. I Geo. I. 



81 Brayley, Hist. Surr. ii, 432, 433. 



811 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxv, 

 89. 



