ELMBRIDGE HUNDRED 



1678 to 1812, and baptisms from 1682 to 1812, and 

 there is a printed marriages and burials book from 1 754 

 to 1812. 



The church of ST. GEORGE, known locally as 

 Sandy (i.e. Sandon) Chapel, consists of a chancel, 

 nave, north aisle, projecting bay on the south with 

 private pews above a vault, a south vestry, and a shin- 

 gled bell-turret on the west gable. 



The chancel and western part of the nave are built 

 of stone ; the rest is in red brick. There is now no 

 evidence of any work earlier than the 1 6th century, 

 and the interior was till 1 909 an interesting example 

 of 18th-century fittings and arrangement. 



The windows all have wooden frames, there being 

 three in the chancel and north aisle ; in the south 

 wall of the nave is a pointed window with stone jambs 

 and above the west door is a square light. 



Galleries extend round three sides of the church, 

 and at the west end is a second at a higher level. A 

 framed painting of our Lord hangs above the altar 

 against a panelled reredos. There is no chancel arch 

 or division between nave and chancel, and the north 

 aisle is separated from the nave by wooden pillars 

 carrying a beam. The opening to the bay on the 

 south is filled by Corinthian columns and pilasters 

 carrying a pediment cornice ; there are several pews 

 in the bay, two of which have small fireplaces, and 

 steps leading to an external door. There is a small 

 marble font. The church was fitted throughout with 

 box pews, but in 1 909 the decay of the floor necessi- 

 tated their removal, when the floor was relaid. The 

 roof has collars and wind braces, but is partly 

 plastered, and over the nave is pierced with a large 

 skylight. 



On a beam at the west end of the chancel are the 

 arms of George II. 



There are some late 17th-century and many i8th- 

 century monuments to families of the neighbourhood, 

 as well as several funeral hatchments. 



The single bell which now remains is by John 

 Warner & Son, 1799. 



There is now no plate belonging to the church. 



The church of Esher is not men- 



ADVOWSON tioned in Domesday. There was a 



church there at the end of the 1 3th 



century, when the advowson belonged to the Bishop 



of Winchester, 83 and it seems probable that the advow- 



EAST AND 

 WEST MOLESEY 



son was purchased with the manor of Esher from the 

 monks of Croix St. Leufroy by Peter, Bishop of 

 Winchester. 84 It was included in the grant of 

 the manor made by the Abbot of Netley to William, 

 Bishop of Winchester, in 12^. K In 1284 the king 

 quitclaimed to the bishop all right to the advowson 

 of Esher. 86 Soon after this the advowson seems to 

 have become separated from the manor and to have 

 been in the hands of the hospital, for in 1535 the 

 rectory of Esher formed part of the possession of the 

 hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr, Southwark. 67 

 In 1538 the master and brethren conveyed 

 it to the king in exchange for other parsonages, 

 lately monastic property. 88 In 1620 it was granted 

 by James I to Sir Henry Spiller, kt., and others. 69 

 George Price held the advowson with the manor in 

 I635, 90 and it descended with the manor till 1714," 

 when John Latton vested it in trustees for the benefit 

 of Wadham College, Oxford, to the founder of which 

 he was related," and restored the impropriate tithes of 

 the rectory. Under Latton's gift the patronage was 

 vested in 1726 in Thomas Trevor, 93 and in 1744 in 

 Henry Pye. 9 * These trustees were bound to appoint 

 a kinsman of the founder of Wadham College before 

 any other person, if there were any such of that 

 college and in Holy Orders at the time of the decease 

 of the incumbent of Esher. The college is now patron. 

 Smith's Charity is distributed as in 

 CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. Lady Lynch, 

 widow of Sir Thomas Lynch, gover- 

 nor of Jamaica, who died in i682, 94 gave 100, one 

 third to the clergyman for a sermon annually, 5/. to the 

 clerk, the rest to the poor people ; also 3 \ acres of 

 land for the repair of the church. 96 



In 1789 Mr. Nathaniel George Petree left 850 

 to the rector and churchwardens for the support of 

 the Sunday school, also a library of religious books for 

 the parish and 100, the interest to go to the school- 

 master for acting as librarian and to the poor in bread. 



National Schools were fitted up by subscriptions in 

 the disused workhouse in 1837 ; but in 1779 John 

 Winkin left 6 yearly to educate three children, so 

 presumably a school existed then. A new school 

 (National) was built in 1858 and enlarged in 1891. 

 West End Infants School (National) was built in 1879 

 by Mrs. Bailey of Stoney Hills in memory of her 

 husband. 



EAST AND WEST MOLESEY 



Molesham (xi cent.) ; Mulesey (xiii cent.), Mole- 

 seye (xiv cent.). 



The two Moleseys, East and West, are two small 

 parishes, which consisted in 1086 of three manors, all 

 called Molesham. Parochially they first appear as 

 two chapelries, which later became parishes, and 

 now form one urban district under the Act of 1894. 

 West Molesey, 3 J miles west of Kingston, is bounded 

 on the north by the Thames, on the east and south 



by East Molesey, on the west and south by Walton- 

 on Thames, of which it was a chapelry. Its extreme 

 measurements are a mile each way, and it contains 

 656 acres of land and 81 of water. The parish was 

 agricultural till the recent building of suburban or 

 country houses in the Thames Valley. The soil is 

 the gravel and alluvium of the Thames and Mole 

 valleys ; the latter partly bounds the parish. Dun- 

 stable Common is open ground south of the village, 



88 Cal. Pat. 1272-81, p. 378 ; 1281-92, 



P- 5- 



84 See above, under manor of Esher. 



85 Cal. Pat. 1313-17, p. 676. 

 Chart. R. 12 Edw. I. m. 5. 



"7 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 60. 



88 Close, 30 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, no. 9. 



89 Pat. 1 8 Jas. I, pt. xxi, no. 5. 



90 Feet of F. SUIT. Trin. 1 1 Chas. I. 

 In the following year the rectory wa 

 leased to Michael Hudson for 31 years. 

 Pat. 1 1 Chas. I, pt. i. 



91 For references see above, under 

 manor of Esher, and Inst. Bks. P.R.O. 

 1689 and 1701. 



91 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr, ii, 



752- 



98 Inst. Bks. P.R.O. 1726. Afterwards 

 second Baron Trevor. 



Ibid. 1744. 



94 Monument in church. 



94 Willi' Visitation, 1724. 



