A HISTORY OF SURREY 



was put up. Presumably the aisles also fell into 

 decay as, according to Manning and Bray, they were 

 rebuilt in 1729 of brick. The body of the church 

 was 'beautified' in 1681. 



Coming to the modern work : this was begun 

 about the middle of the last century, but not a great 

 deal had been done when the present vicar the 

 Rev. A. S. W. Young was presented to the living ; 

 a new roof had been placed on the nave by Brandon, 

 the west gallery had been removed, and the west 

 wall was being rebuilt but was left unfinished, and 

 some other work done to the windows, &c. Since 

 his induction in 1878 a large sum of money has 

 been spent in putting the building into substantial 

 repair, including the following works : the restoration 

 of the nave and aisles (the galleries being removed 

 and the brickwork of 1729 being replaced with 

 stonework and new traceried windows inserted in 

 place of the former round-headed windows), new 

 west windows and the' finishing of the west wall, 

 including the remodelling of the west doorway, new 

 tracery in the chancel window, rebuilding and 

 lengthening of the north transept and the heightening 

 of both with the insertion of large windows ; the 

 addition of the west aisle to the south transept to 

 match that on the east side, the heightening of the 

 east and west arches of the tower and the addition of 

 a stone vault in the tower, new roofs to the transepts 

 and aisles, three heavy tie-beams to Brandon's nave 

 roof which was thrusting out the nave walls, new 

 seats in the chancel (just finished), and nave, a new 

 organ, and much other work. During the heighten- 

 ing of the tower arches the south-east pier began 

 to show signs of weakness and it had to be taken 

 down and rebuilt ; it was then found that the 14th- 

 century outer skin of ashlar had no bond with the 

 earlier core, which was made up of very loose material. 

 Substantially the building is now in very good con- 

 dition, the only exception being the north-east vestry, 

 which has some much-decayed external stonework. 



The chancel has an east window of five lights and 

 tracery; the inner jambs are of the ijth century, 

 but the rest is modern ; the wall, which was probably 

 of the original 13th-century thickness, has been 

 thinned for the window. It has been cemented 

 outside in imitation of stone ; the buttresses on either 

 side are veneered with thin stone slabs ; the founda- 

 tion of the walls is of brick. The north window is 

 of three cinquefoiled lights under a traceried head ; 

 it dates from the 151(1 century. Below it is a 

 modern tomb-recess. The doorway into the vestry 

 is of the 1 5th century with moulded jambs and 

 pointed arch. The archway opening into the north 

 chapel has plain jambs, the eastern with slightly 

 chamfered edges, the western with chamfered corners 

 excepting on the south side where, to a height of 

 6 ft. 6 in. above the floor, it has an edge roll ; the 

 arch is two centred and has a wide hollow between 

 smaller moulds which die on the jambs. The arcade 

 of three bays dividing the chancel from the south 

 chapel has arch moulds similar to the north arch ; 

 the piers are composed of four engaged round shafts 

 with hollow-chamfered angles between ; the shafts 

 have moulded bases and bell capitals ; the east respond 

 resembles the piers but has also the outer order of 

 the arch carried down ; there is no west respond, the 

 arch dying on the tower buttress ; the arcade is built 

 of chalk. 



The tower has an arch in each of its four sides of 

 two chamfered orders, the inner being carried down 

 in the jambs, the other dying out. The north and 

 south arches are of their original height, but the east 

 and west have been heightened in modern times. A 

 shallow buttress of ashlar serves to rebut the arches 

 outside the wall line at each angle. The axial line 

 of the tower is some 2 ft. to the south of that of the 

 chancel and deflects to the north of it. 



The north-east vestry is the least restored part of 

 the church, its walls are of ashlar much weathered 

 outside ; it has a square-headed window in its east 

 and north walls of two hollow-chamfered orders and 

 with moulded labels all very much decayed ; the lights 

 are now boarded up. In the east wall is a modern 

 doorway. 



The north chapel has a modernized east window 

 of four cinquefoiled lights, and in the north wall are 

 two similar modern windows, each of three lights ; 

 the jambs of all three windows are similar in section 

 to those of the east window of the chancel. Under 

 the second window is a small modern doorway. 



In the east wall below the window is a shallow 

 recess 4 ft. 3 in. wide with moulded jambs and a 

 four-centred arch in a square head. It dates from 

 the 1 5th century and is part of a tomb, but whether 

 it is in its original position is doubtful. It was 

 probably moved from the north wall when the 

 doorway was inserted. In the south wall next it 

 are the remains of a piscina without its basin ; it has 

 a plain four-centred head. In the north wall is 

 another tomb-recess of the same width and almost 

 like that in the east wall, but of more elaborate detail ; 

 the inner parts of the splayed jambs are panelled, the 

 arch is four centred (splayed and panelled as the 

 jambs) and has traceried spandrels under a square 

 head ; the recess retains its base, which is panelled 

 with quatrefoils, each containing a shield. To the 

 east of this tomb-recess is a short length of a large 

 mould of similar character to the side arches of the 

 chancel ; from its position it might almost be inferred 

 that it is part of an archway which opened into a 

 chapel or chamber, still farther north, and that it was 

 abolished and filled in when the tomb-recess was in- 

 serted, but there are no other traces of such a chapel 

 or chamber. 



The walls of the chapel are cemented, excepting 

 a small portion at the west end, where they are 

 seen to be of flint with an admixture of stone. 

 A modern archway through the west wall of the 

 chapel opens into the north transept. South of the 

 archway is the vice to the tower with semi-octagonal 

 outer faces. In the north-west face is an old piscina 

 with a pointed trefoiled head and a mutilated round 

 basin ; the piscina might be of either the 1 3th or the 

 1 4th century, but is more probably the latter ; the 

 vice is entered by a pointed chamfered doorway with 

 broach stops. The transept has a modern north 

 window of six lights and tracery, and, in the west 

 wall, a modern archway replacing a smaller one of 

 the 1 8th century. 



The south chapel has an east window of five 

 cinquefoiled lights and tracery below a two-centred 

 head ; the moulded jambs are similar to those of the 

 chancel windows, and while the outer stonework and 

 tracery are modern the inner jambs may be old. 

 This also applies to the two south windows, which are 

 each of three lights with tracery. The opening of 



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