BOROUGH OF GUILDFORD 



are square and raked panels of elaborately carved 

 and pierced acanthus scrolls. At the first-floor 

 landing an entrance hall is arranged to the room over 

 the shop. This ante-room is a part of the later work 

 and is treated with arcading against the wall on one 

 side and on to the stair well on another, where is 

 also a range of turned and twisted balusters. The 

 partition wall between this and the room is treated 

 with large bolection-moulded panels. The fourth side 

 retains the original window and iron casements. The 

 furniture of these is extremely ingenious and is 

 beautifully designed. It consists of a combination of 

 a latch and a twisting bolt, the latter engaging with 

 two pins in the sill and transom and drawing the 

 casements tight." The front room is entirely of the 

 later date. It is beautifully panelled with large 

 bolection-moulded panels. The ceiling is of richly 

 modelled plaster and the mantelpiece is a simple 

 continuation of the panelling. The windows are 

 fitted with large double iron casements in wood 

 frames with wood transoms and have leaded glass in 

 large panes. Here again are similar but simpler 

 bolt fasteners. 



No. 1 40 has a good plastered front of late I yth- 

 century date with two overhanging gabled bays. 

 There are sash and casement windows, all in wood, 

 and a good wooden cornice. No. 136 is of about 

 the same date. It has a square projecting bay and a 

 plaster coved cornice. The angles are quoined in 

 plaster. No. 133 retains, in the main, its old front. 

 It has three gables on the street front which over- 

 hang the first floor and have moulded barge-boards. 

 No. 129 shows a very narrow elevation to the street, 

 and is treated on its projecting and overhanging bay 

 with a somewhat elaborate arrangement of plain 

 superimposed orders inclosing the sash windows of the 

 first and second floors. The front is in wood and 

 plaster and is of late 17th-century date. Nos. 127 

 and 128 are perhaps a little later in date. The 

 whole front is plastered with rustications, architraves, 

 pediments, &c., of a purely classical type, and all in 

 plaster. The cornice is fairly heavy and deeply 

 coved. Nos. 40 and 41 are similar in style, but 

 somewhat more elaborately rusticated. No. 125 and 

 No. 121 both belong to the middle of the 1 7th 

 century, but have been a good deal restored. The 

 former has a large gable with deep modillioned eaves, 

 and overhangs at the first and second floors. The 

 front is plastered and the windows are casements. 

 No. 121 has an overhanging bay with a wall ornament 

 of square ba'ustradings, all in wood and plaster. The 

 old post office, No. 56, has a very picturesque front 

 of two gables. At the first floor are two square 

 projecting bays with hipped tile roofs, and between 

 them, but on the second floor, is a circular projecting 

 bay which ties the whole design together in a singu- 

 larly happy manner. At the bottom of the hill is a 

 house of mid- 18th-century date. It is built of red 

 and yellow brick and has flush sashes and a good 

 modillioned cornice with a tiled roof set back from 

 the crown mould. 



On the road to the station and in Mount Street 

 are a number of simple but picturesque cottages in 

 half-timber, plastered and in some cases weather- 

 boarded. There are also several others which have 

 been refronted. In Bury Fields is a row of cottages 



all a good deal restored, but retaining, in the majority 

 of cases, their old iron casements and casement furni- 

 ture. Adjoining these is a house with the remains 

 of an elaborate early 17th-century doorway with 

 small pilasters, lozenged rustications, fantastic capitals, 

 and a moulded cornice. 



In Quarry Street are a number of houses dating 

 from the 1 7th century. Near St. Mary's Church is 

 one of early 1 7th-century date, a good deal disfigured 

 with stucco, with an overhanging gabled first floor 

 on carved brackets of crude renaissance design. 

 Farther south on the west side of the street is No. 6, 

 dating from the end of the 1 7th century, with a 

 panelled plaster front and some casement windows 

 and a wood modillioned cornice. No. 5, a red brick 

 building a little later in date than the last, has a good 

 modillioned wood cornice. No. 19 and Millbrook 

 House, opposite the castle arch, are much restored 

 examples of 17th-century work with overhanging 

 gables, &c. 



Under a part of the Angel Hotel is a sub-vault, 

 possibly of the 1 3th century, consisting of three double 

 bays of plain pointed rib vaulting with circular 

 columns with plain bases, no capitals, and chamfered 

 ribs. It is about 32 ft. by 22 ft., and is entered 

 from the north by a door with a pointed chamfered 

 head. The archway from the street to the yard of 

 the hotel retains some work: of early 17th-century 

 date. The beams over the archway are old but 

 plain, and there is an elaborate door with fantastically 

 rusticated Ionic pilasters in the half-timber walling. 

 Almost exactly opposite, on the south side of the 

 street, is a somewhat similar vault about 19 ft. 6 in. by 

 3* ft. 6 in. ; but having hollow-chamfered wall ribs, 

 plain moulded bases of rather deep profile, and moulded 

 bell capitals. Mr. Simon " has collected notices of the 

 storage of wine in Guildford for the kings, Henry III 

 in particular, who were frequently resident in the 

 castle, and who received large dues of wine from 

 Gascony ; and it is, on the whole, probable that the 

 crypts were from the first, as now, wine cellars. 



On the site of one of the lodges to the Royal 

 Park, north of the station, at the en d of Walnut Tree 

 Close, is an old house of red brick, now divided into 

 two cottages. It probably dates from the 1 7th cen- 

 tury, and runs north and south, with a gabled wing 

 crossing it in the middle of its length. The end 

 gables have been refaced with modern brick and tiles. 

 There is a small amount of old half-timber work on 

 the east front and a modern projecting wing. The 

 roofs are tiled. 



The new gaol has now been removed from Guildford. 

 The keep of the castle was the county gaol for Surrey 

 and Sussex " from 1 202, when \s. were paid for the 

 repair of the gaol in the castle, as late as December 

 1 508," when a deed records the agreement for the 

 maintenance of prisoners, but apparently was not the 

 county gaol under Elizabeth, as the Loseley papers 

 make no reference to it as such, prisoners being then 

 sent to the ' White Lion ' and the Marshalsea in 

 Southwark. In 1 604 a new gaol was built in Quarry 

 Street. It was rebuilt in 1 765, and pulled down 

 and rebuilt on a higher site on South Hill in 

 1822. The new prison was abolished in 1851, the 

 prisoners being removed in April of that year to the 

 newly built House of Correction at Wandsworth. 



See V.C.H. Surr. ii, 479. 



W Hist, oftlu ffinf TraJt in England. 



11 The county gaol for Sussex was es- 

 tablished in Lewes in 1487-8. 



553 



Surr. Artk. Coll. xv, 157. 

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