A HISTORY OF SURREY 



The nave is of three bays. The arcade on the 

 north, of 1 6th-century date, has no responds, the low 

 three-centred arches of two chamfered orders dying 

 into the surface of the east and west walls of the nave. 

 The columns are octagonal with moulded capitals of 

 slight projection and very plain bases. The south 

 arcade is quite modern with octagonal columns, 

 moulded capitals, and four-centred arches of two 

 chamfered orders. The tower arch is plain ijth- 

 century work of the full width of the tower, dying 

 into the walls at the springing. 



The north aisle is built of brick and has three 

 large two-light stone-dressed untraceried windows to 

 the north, with a similar one to the west. At the east 

 is a door leading into a vestibule which has an exter- 

 nal door and a staircase leading to a gallery running 

 round two sides of the aisle. 



The south aisle has two windows to the south, of 

 three lights with tracery 'of late 13th-century detail, 

 and the south door and the entrance of the south 

 porch are designed in a style harmonizing with the 

 windows, with shafted jambs and moulded two-centred 

 heads. In the porch is a small door opening on to a 

 stair, contained in a quarter-octagonal staircase, which 

 leads to a gallery over the west of the aisle. In the 

 west wall are two single trefoiled lights, above which, 

 lighting the gallery, is a circular traceried window. 



The tower is of three stages, the upper being of 

 wood, weather boarded, on which is a small spire 

 covered with lead. In the second and ground stages 

 are small lights of 13th-century date with circular 

 rear arches and wide internal splays. Externally the 

 jambs and head have been replaced with brick, 

 forming square-headed openings with wooden frames. 

 The west door has been similarly treated. 



The font is of early 12th-century date and is in 

 the form of a modified cushion capital. The inverted 

 lunettes of the faces are edged with a cable mould and 

 have panels, in one of which occurs an Agnus Dei and 

 in another a goat. The third has a star, and the 

 fourth a cross with expanded arms and stem. At the 

 angles are small projecting heads, two of which have 

 been defaced. The circular stem has been recut and 

 the base is modern. Under the two-centred arch 

 between the chancel and the north chapel is a curious 

 late 15th-century monument designed to contain two 

 kneeling effigies. It is of two bays, with four-centred 

 openings below a heavy panelled and embattled 

 cornice, and has engaged shafts at the angles and 

 middle of each side. At the north-east angle is the 

 return of a panelled screen, or perhaps doorway, which 

 formed part of the original design, but as the monu- 

 ment is clearly not in position nothing can be said of 

 it. The carved details of leaves and flowers are good, 

 but there is nothing to give a clue to the persons 

 whom it commemorates. 



There are a number of brasses. On the west wall 

 of the north chapel is a plate with an arched head 

 bearing the kneeling figures of a man in armour, his 

 wife, six sons in civilian dress, and twelve daughters. 

 The inscription begins : ' Here resten the bodyes of 

 Erasm' ffbrde Esquyer sone and heyre of Walter fforde 

 sometyme tresorer to Kynge Edward the iiij th in his 

 warres at ye wynnyng of Barwyke ' &c. The inscrip- 

 tion gives the date of his death as 1533 and is also in 

 memory of his wife ' Julyan ' (Salford), who died in 

 1559. The arms are : Three lions rampant crowned ; 

 quartering parted fessewise a lion rampant fretty. 



A second shield shows the same coat impaling a 

 fesse engrailed with three boars' heads thereon 

 between three talbots, and beneath it ' Fforde 

 and Salford,' and a third has the same impaling 

 a cross engrailed within a border, and beneath 

 it ' ffbrde and Legh.' On the north wall of the 

 chancel is a brass to Robert Smyth, 1539, and 

 Katherine (Blounte) his wife, 1 549, who had four 

 sons and three daughters. The arms are a fesse 

 with three martlets thereon between three leopards' 

 heads. Below is a brass to William Notte, 1576, and 

 Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of the above Robert 

 Smyth, 1587. The figures of the father, mother, and 

 of fourteen sons and five daughters are shown. On 

 the east wall of the nave is a brass to John Foisted, 

 1540, and his wife Anne Wheeler, who had four 

 daughters, Anne, Jane, Elizabeth, and Julian, the last 

 of whom erected the monument in 1582. The kneel- 

 ing figures of the father, mother and children are 

 shown, with two shields, one being Foisted, a bend 

 between two molets with three trefoils on the bend 

 and a chief with a pelican wounding itself between 

 two trefoils ; and the second Foisted impaling a 

 camel between three demi-catherine wheels, and on 

 a chief a Catherine wheel (for Wheeler). There is 

 also a brass to the above Julian, 1586, and her 

 two husbands, on the north wall of the north chapel ; 

 the first was Cuthbert Blakeden, 1 540, ' while he 

 lyved Serjeant of the Confectionary to king Henry 

 Theight,' by whom she had four daughters and two 

 sons, the second, John Booth [ob. 1548], 'one of 

 the ordynary gentleman ushers as well to the said 

 King Henry theight ; as to his sonne Kyng Edward 

 the vi,' by whom she had four daughters and one 

 son. The figures are shown standing and the arms 

 are : Ermine three lions rampant in a border en- 

 grailed (for Blakeden) ; and three boars' heads razed 

 palewise (for Booth) ; also Foisted impaling Wheeler. 

 Another brass on the east wall of the north aisle is to 

 John Cheke, 1 590, and his wife Isabel Seilearde, with 

 the standing figures of the father, mother, and six 

 sons. The arms are a cock, impaling (i) a chief 

 ermine ; (2) a cross with a label of five points ; (3) 

 three lions rampant ; (4) a lion rampant with a crescent 

 for difference. There is also an inscription to Anne 

 daughter of William Childe of East Sheen in the 

 parish of Mortlake and county of Surrey, 1607 ; 

 another (in Latin) is to Elizabeth (Hatton), 1608, wife 

 of William Leygh. On the north wall of the north 

 chapel is a marble monument and bust of Colonel 

 Sidney Godolphin, Governor of Scilly and Auditor of 

 Wales, 1732. 



The tower contains six bells, all cast by Thomas 

 Swain in 1753, except the fifth, which was cast in 



1754- 



The church plate consists of a chalice and cover 

 paten of 1637, a paten of 1715 inscribed 'Ex dono 

 Henrici Bridges, 1716,' a large flagon and alms- 

 dish made and dedicated to the church service 

 in 1724, spoon strainer of 1807, and a modern 

 almsdish. 



The first book of registers contains mixed entries 

 between 1663 and 1695, a second book has entries 

 1753 to 1778, a third appears to be a duplicate ex- 

 tending 1765 to 1773. There is a marriage book 

 to 1781 and a printed marriage book, 1781 to 1812, 

 also a book containing baptisms and burials 1781 

 to 1812. 



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