A HISTORY OF SURREY 



by name | of London in good fame | departyd in his 

 best lust | the XIII th daye of Julye | on whose soule 

 god have mcy | and send hym life Eternall | amongst 

 godf true Elect | to have his prospect | in the place 

 celestyall | .' 



Near the east end of the north wall is a large 

 marble cenotaph to 'Speaker' Onslow, who died in 

 1768 and was buried at Merrow. On the top is the 

 reclining figure of a man in Roman costume. 



On the south wall of the nave is a brass to Maurice 

 Abbot and Alice his wife, parents of the archbishop. 

 She died on 15 September 1606 and he died ten 

 days later. Above they are both represented in out- 

 line together with their six sons, all kneeling. Near 

 this is a large marble monument to James Smythe, 

 who married Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Sir 

 Robert Parkhurst of Pyrford. He died in 1711 and 

 his wife in 1705. 



In 1486 a chantry called Norbrigge's and Kynges- 

 ton's Chantry was endowed in the Lady chapel. 

 From the inscription 16 Henry Norbrigge, formerly 

 Mayor of Guildford, who died in 1512, it appears 

 that he was the chief founder. He was buried in the 

 Lady chapel. Another chantry was founded for the 

 term of twenty years by Sir Richard Weston of Sutton 

 Place in 1 540. 



The iron screen across the entrance of the south- 

 east chapel was erected in memory of Canon Valpy, 

 formerly rector, who died in 1909. The colours of 

 the ' Queen's ' Royal West Surrey Regiment are 

 laid up in the north-east chapel. In 1910 the north- 

 west porch was converted into a baptistery, and an 

 alabaster font has been erected in it. The iron rail- 

 ings between the church and the street, dated 1712, 

 are a fine piece of Wealden ironwork. 



The communion plate includes a cup and paten, 

 both made at Norwich about 15/0, but having no 

 hall mark. Round the cup is engraved ' HALE WES- 

 JEN,' the old name of a village near St. Neots, Hunts. 

 It was sent from there to London to be melted up 

 into a new cup, but the silversmith kept the old one 

 intact and made the new one of entirely fresh metal. 

 After passing through various hands the old one was 

 bought for use at Guildford. The next oldest piece 

 of plate is a silver alms-basin of 1675 ; there is also 

 a silver-gilt paten of 1691 ; a cup and cover paten of 

 1730 ; a silver-gilt flagon of 1757 ; a cup of 1873 ; 

 and two silver-gilt cups and patens of 1888. Besides 

 these there are six pewter plates. 



There are two small wooden collecting boxes with 

 handles measuring over all 9^ in. by 2f in. On the 

 tops is a circle of geometric incised ornament. Simi- 

 lar ones are to be found at Chobham. 



There are five books of registers ; the first con- 

 tains baptisms, marriages, and burials from 1558 to 

 1693 ; the second contains the same from 1693 to 

 1783, but the marriages stop at 1 739. The marriages 

 between the years 1739 and 1754 and from 1758 

 to 1763 were entered in the St. Mary's register 

 owing to the rebuilding of this church ; the third 

 book contains marriages from 1754 to 1812 ; the 

 fourth has baptisms from 1784 to 1794 and burials 

 from 1784 to 1795 ; and the fifth continues the 

 baptisms from 1794 to 1812 and burials from 1 701; 

 to 1812. 



The church of ST. NICHOLAS is a large build- 

 ing comprising a chancel with an apsidal end, 

 tower, north organ chamber, south chapel or extension 

 of the south aisle, vestry, nave, north and south aisles, 

 south-west porch, and a private chapel (called the 

 Loseley chapel) to the south of the chancel aisle and 

 west of the vestry. Excepting the Loseley chapel, 

 the church was rebuilt in 1870-2."' The original 

 building was on a lower level, and was often damaged 

 by floods. It had been much repaired, but was 

 entirely rebuilt in 1836-7 in churchwardens' Gothic. 

 This church was higher than the original, but was 

 still liable to floods. The present is raised still 

 more. The Loseley chapel, which is of the 1 5th 

 century, is closed off from the church by a glazed stone 

 screen, and its floor level (doubtless that of the earlier 

 church) is much below the floor level of the present 

 church. There are two prints hanging in the vestry 

 portraying the two former churches. The earlier, 

 dated 1834, is a north-west view showing two gabled 

 ends, probably of two aisles with a west tower of three 

 stages between them. The second print shows the 

 church after the first rebuilding, with chancel, nave, 

 and aisles and a west tower ; this building was how- 

 ever rendered unsafe by floods from the river and 

 was replaced by the present church in 1872. 



In the churchyard is a 13th-century capital of a 

 pillar, much perished, from the first church. The 

 Loseley chapel has a modernized south window 

 under a traceried head of 15th-century style and a 

 west doorway with a four-centred arch in a square 

 head. It contains many monuments of the More and 

 More-Molyneux family. In the south wall is an 

 altar tomb to Arnold Brocas which has been removed 

 from the north wall of the former chancel. On it 

 lies the effigy of a priest, with feet to the west, in a 

 red cope, or possibly the gown of a bachelor of laws, 

 above his other vestments, which appear to consist of 

 an alb, rochet, and stole. A part only of the original 

 brass inscription remains along the top edge of the 

 base, and reads : ' Hie jacet Arnald(us) Brocas 

 baculari' ut'usqi iuris canonic' lincolfi & welfl & 

 qSdm Rector isti' loci qui obiit vigilia (asstlpcSis be 

 Marie Anno Domini Millesimo ccc nonagesimo 

 quinto) ' : the words in brackets are a modern restora- 

 tion, in paint, of the text. The front of the base 

 has five bays with quatrefoil panelling, each inclosing 

 a shield ; the first or easternmost is charged with a 

 leopard rampant, for Brocas, with the difference of 

 a border engrailed ; the second is Brocas quartering 

 Roches, with a label over all for difference ; the 

 third, in a border a lion ; the fourth as the first ; 

 and the fifth the undifFerenced coat of Brocas. 

 The recess over the tomb has panelled sides and 

 a vaulted soffit divided into three bays by cinquefoiled 

 arches terminating in the two middle ones with 

 carved bosses ; in the two inner angles the vaulting 

 springs from shafts with moulded capitals and the two 

 intermediate main ribs from carved corbels, one repre- 

 senting an angel's head with hair bound by a circlet, 

 from which rises a small cross in front, and the 

 other a bearded man's head also with a circlet, 

 enriched by small flowers ; at the intersections of the 

 vaulting ribs are carved bosses, some as flowers and 

 others as lions' faces with protruding tongues ; the 



** In 1797 the old church was largely reconstructed, having been damaged by floods. The interior arcades were apparently 

 replaced by cast-iron pillars. 



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