BOROUGH OF GUILDFORD 



has semi-octagonal jambs with modern bases and 

 moulded bell capitals ; the detail of the north capital is 

 earlier than that of the south capital ; the arch is 

 pointed and of two chamfered orders. In the gable 

 above the arch is a lancet window (with its rear arch 

 to the east) which formerly helped to light the chapel 

 before the aisle was widened. The easternmost 

 window of the aisle is a i^th-century insertion, but 

 wholly restored outside ; it has three trefoiled lights 

 with quatrefoils above in a two-centred arch ; below 

 it is a square aumbry rebated all round. The second 

 window is a wide lancet with widely splayed inner 

 jambs ; this also is restored outside. The north door- 

 way is a fine one of the 1 3th century ; the jambs are 

 of three orders with Sussex marble shafts in the angles ; 

 the shafts have double roll bases and moulded bell 

 capitals ; the arch is moulded with a series of rolls and 

 hollows ; of the two principal rolls one is triple filleted 

 and the other keeled, and the label is also moulded ; in 

 the jambs inside are two small sinkings for draw-bars. 

 The wood porch protecting the doorway is modern. 

 The third light in the north wall resembles the 

 second. Below the windows is a round string-course, 

 which is interrupted by the three-light window, but 

 continues over the doorway. The west window is old 

 inside and restored outside ; it is of three trefoiled 

 lights with tracery. Below it is a small plain square 

 window, now all modernized, the use of which is said 

 to have been to hold a light to guide travellers across 

 the ford of the River Wey, from which it is little more 

 than 200 yds. distant. It is not, however, opposite 

 the ford. The archway between the south aisle and 

 chapel differs from the corresponding arch on the 

 other side ; it has half-round jambs with modern bases 

 and moulded capitals ; the arch is of two chamfered 

 orders. Over it is a lancet window which lighted the 

 chapel. North of the arch in the east respond of the 

 arcade is a small mutilated piscina with a square basin 

 in a square recess ; probably it dates from the ijth 

 century and may have been set here when the I ^th-cen- 

 tury piscina in the south wall was inserted. The latter 

 piscina is now much mutilated, but was originally a 

 fine example ; it is semi-hexagonal in plan and vaulted; 

 it was formerly moulded and crocketed on the 

 face, but this is now all cut away. The first south 

 window, above this piscina, is modern outside like the 

 rest in this wall, but has old inner quoins and moulded 

 rear arch ; it was probably a late 14th-century inser- 

 tion of three trefoiled lights under a square head. 

 The other three windows are wide lancets with old 

 inner jambstones and splayed rear arches. Below 

 the third window is a blocked doorway of which only 

 the segmental rear arch and inner jambs are visible. 

 An early 1 8th-century plan shows a porch outside it. 

 The west window of the aisle is of four ogee trefoiled 

 lights under a head filled with net tracery ; the inside 

 jambstones and arch are the only old ones remaining. 

 Below, and to the south of this window outside, is a 

 curious niche with a cinquefoiled head ; its jambs are 

 skewed to the north. 



The whole of the exterior of the walling (excepting 

 that of the tower and the east wall, which is of chalk) 

 has been encased with flint, and all the buttresses are 

 modern except one ; the south wall has been strength- 

 ened by seven buttresses and the west by four ; the 

 north wall has a buttress at the west end and one 

 rebutting the cross arch, both modernized ; against 

 the entrance to the chapel apse is a small original 



buttress in which is a stone carved with a panel 

 having a feathered trefoiled head ; probably it formed 

 the back of a lamp niche and had a bracket. 



The tower, built of rough flint, can be seen above 

 the roofs on all four sides ; the shallow I ith-century 

 pilasters, two on the west face but four on each of the 

 others, are all of rough flints ; a few tiles have been 

 mixed with the flint-work. The chamber immediately 

 above the church is lighted only by a small modern 

 window on the north side and is approached through 

 the space above the chancel vaulting from the east 

 vice. The bell-chamber is lighted by six windows ; 

 of the two in the north wall the east and lower has a 

 trefoiled and square modern head and partly restored 

 jambs, the west and higher is a lancet, modernized 

 outside ; on the east side is a large modern lancet, on 

 the west side is an old lancet, and on the south a long 

 narrow lancet and a trefoiled light. The former has 

 an older half-round rear arch evidently belonging to a 

 former and much wider window. At a line roughly 

 about J ft. below the parapet string-course the walling 

 is later and composed of flint and stone ; the string 

 is modern, as also is the embattled parapet. 



Above the chancel vaulting is a gabled wood roof 

 covered with tiles. The two chapels have open- 

 timbered gabled roofs which appear to be old ; the 

 rafters lean over considerably to the west. The nave 

 roof is also open-timbered with collar-beam trusses. 

 The space below the tower has a modern flat wood 

 ceiling. The aisle roofs are both gabled and open- 

 timbered ; they have moulded tie-beams with traceried 

 spandrels to the struts below them. These trusses are 

 supported on curiously carved stone corbels, all of late 

 1 5th-century date; one (in the north-east corner) shows 

 a grotesque beast gnawing a bone. The corbel over 

 the re-cut north capital is plain and apparently modern. 

 All the roofs are tiled. 



The altar table is a light one of polished mahogany 

 with square fluted legs and fluted rails. 



The font is entirely modern ; it has a square bowl 

 of clunch with scalloped under-edge, resting on a 

 chamfered square stem and four small stone shafts 

 with scalloped capitals and moulded bases. 



The pulpit is a modern one of stone and marble ; 

 it replaced a igth-century stone pulpit, the successor 

 of one of ijth-century date, abolished because of its 

 extreme decay. 



Forming a part of the organ-case, in the south 

 chapel, are the remains of a late 15th-century screen, 

 part of which formerly closed off the apse of the 

 south chapel and formed the backing to an altar ; 

 there are eight bays, of which two have plain 

 depressed three-centred arches and another a four- 

 centred arch with trefoiled spandrels ; these three 

 evidently formed doorways on either side of the 

 altar and to the stair. The other five heads are 

 cinquefoiled ogees and have plain tracery over. The 

 posts between are double hollow-chamfered and have 

 buttresses with moulded offsets ; the cornice is also 

 moulded. 



On the vault of the apse of the north chapel are a 

 series of I zth-century paintings. The upper portion 

 of the series contains a version of the favourite medi- 

 aeval subject, the ' Doom ' or ' Last Judgement.' In 

 the centre is a ' Majesty ' or figure of Christ seated in 

 judgement within a vesica-shaped aureole ; on the 

 right hand of Christ is St. Michael with outstretched 

 wings, holding the balance, one scale of which a 



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