A HISTORY OF SURREY 



ing from attached wall shafts which rise from the 

 floor of the chancel. These are formed of three 

 shafts, the middle one keeled, with moulded bases and 

 plain bell capitals with moulded abaci. The main rib 

 against the east wall is carried on pairs of shafts of a 

 similar type with two shafts supported on pointed 

 corbels. The ribs at the western end are also carried 

 on corbels. The diagonals have a hollow chamfer 

 between two rolls, the hollow in those of the western 

 bay being filled with dog-tooth ornament. The 

 chancel arch is pointed. The north and south tower 

 arches are round, with chamfered labels on the sides 

 toward the chapels. Each of these arches cuts into 

 a double-splayed 1 1 th-century window above, that 

 on the north side being almost in the middle of the 

 wall, and that on the south, east of the middle. On 

 the outer face of either wall are four pilaster strips 

 of flint masonry, the middle pair of each being inter- 

 rupted by the archways. The western archway is 



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PLAN OF ST. MARY'S, GUILDFORD 



contemporary with the arcades of the nave, and will 

 be described with them. 



The apse of the north chapel has three windows. 

 That to the south is an original lancet ; the middle one 

 is of three lights, and the northern of two lights ; 

 both are of 14th-century date. The arch at the 

 entrance of the apse is pointed, of a single order, with 

 roll edges. The south jamb has been cut away, and 

 the arch springs on that side from a plain corbel 

 supporting a grooved and hollow-chamfered abacus 

 similar to that of the north jamb, which runs to 

 the ground. 



The early 14th-century north window next to the 

 apse is of three ogee lights, cinquefoiled and having 

 quatrefoils over, in a square head. Opposite the east 

 face of the tower the wall thickens from z ft. 8 in. to 

 3 ft. z in., giving evidence of the earlier transept. In 

 this wall is a mid- 14th-century window similar to 

 that just described. The tracery is restored. Both 

 these windows have wooden lintels. A half-round 



string-course runs round the apse below the windows, 

 broken by the first three-light window and dropped 

 below the other. 



The apse of the south chapel, St. Mary's Chapel, is 

 lighted by two lancet windows restored outside 

 the east lancet is original, and the south shows a 

 13th-century heightening. The head of a third 

 appears above the round-headed doorway to the vice 

 in the angle of the apse with the chancel. The 

 vaulting of this apse is of similar detail to the 

 other, but the three bays are equal in size. On 

 the south side of the apse is a small 14th-century 

 piscina, now much damaged ; it has an ogee trefoiled 

 head, a projecting half-round basin, and an intermediate 

 shelf ; below the windows is a half-round string-course, 

 continuing along the south wall to the west arch of 

 the chapel. 



The two south windows of the chapel are 

 modernized outside, but were probably inserted in the 

 1 4th century. Each is of 

 three trefoiled lights under 

 a square head. Below the 

 first window is a modern 

 doorway. 



The nave has an arcade 

 of four bays on either side ; 

 the pillars are circular. The 

 responds are half-round, as 

 are also the jambs of the 

 archway from the nave to 

 the tower. All the capitals, 

 including those to the tower 

 arch but excepting the 

 middle one of the north 

 arcade are square, and 

 carved with scallop ornament 

 enriched in various man- 

 ners, some having spirals at 

 the angles and others nail- 

 head or tooth ornament ; 

 the abaci are grooved and 

 hollow chamfered. The 

 middle capital on the north 

 side has been mutilated by 

 being cut back in order, it 

 is said, to enable an occu- 

 pant of the former west gal- 

 lery in the north aisle to see 

 the pulpit from his seat ; it is now moulded and 

 of round plan ; the corners of the arches have been 

 chamfered off also to find a seating. The arches are 

 all pointed and of a single order with a small keeled 

 edge roll towards the nave and a small hollow chamfer 

 on the other side ; the label on the east side of the 

 tower arch is chamfered ; that on the west side, and 

 those on either side of each arcade, are grooved and 

 hollow chamfered. Over the north jamb of the tower 

 arch is a late 15th-century doorway to the rood-loft 

 from the tower ; it was evidently approached by a 

 wood stair or ladder in the tower. 



The west doorway, which is restored throughout, 

 has jambs of two chamfered orders and a two-centred 

 arch ; the rear arch has a double-ogee mould, which 

 is old. The window over is all modern excepting 

 the inner stones of the jambs and arch ; it is of five 

 uncusped lights under a traceried head ; the jambs 

 are moulded inside and out with a wide hollow. 

 The archway from the north aisle to the chapel 



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