BOROUGH OF GUILDFORD 



cornice, partly restored, is moulded and enriched 

 with square flowers. 



Against the east wall is the large altar tomb of 

 alabaster to Sir William More, kt., son and heir of 

 Sir Christopher More, who died at Loseley in 1600, 

 and Dame Margaret his wife, the daughter of Ralph 

 D.miel, who left issue George More, &c. It is 

 divided into bays by pilasters containing marble 

 panels. On it lie the alabaster effigies of Sir William 

 and Lady Margaret ; the former in full-plate armour. 

 The lady wears a tight bodice and full farthingale, 

 and both are very well preserved. The inscription 

 is on a black marble panel in the back above the 

 figures. At the sides are brackets on which are 

 seated cherubs ; on either side of the middle panel 

 are dark coloured marble shafts with gilded Corin- 

 thian capitals, and over the cornice above are three 

 shields with coats of arms ; the middle one is 

 quarterly I and 4, Azure a cross argent with five 

 martlets sable thereon, for More ; 2 and 3, Argent a 

 cheveron between three cockatrices gules, for Mudge ; 

 the north shield has More impaling Dingley, Argent 

 a fesse with a molet between two roundels sable in 

 the chief, the south shield has More and Mudge 

 quartered impaling a coat of seven quarters. 



Extensions or wings were thrown out on either 

 side for other members of the family ; the north 

 wing forms a monument to Sir George More and 

 his wife Anne, but the inscription in the panel 

 behind is to the lady only ; she was one of the 

 daughters and co-heirs of Sir Adryan Poynings, kt., 

 second brother to Thomas last Lord Poynings (who 

 died without issue) and of Mary wife to Sir Adryan, 

 daughter and sole heir to Sir Owen West, kt., 

 brother and heir to Thomas, Lord De La Warr ; 

 she died in 1 590 leaving issue Robert More and others. 

 On the base are the kneeling figures face to face 

 of Sir George and Lady Anne. The south wing 

 has the kneeling figures of two ladies, the first of 

 whom is described in the inscription as Elizabeth 

 daughter of Sir William More ; she was married 

 three times, first to Richard Foisted of Albury, 

 secondly to Sir John Woolley, one of the secretaries 

 for the Latin tongue to Queen Elizabeth, and thirdly 

 to Thomas, Lord Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor of 

 England. She had no issue by the first and third 

 husbands, by the second she had Sir Francis Woolley, 

 kt. The second lady is Anne daughter of Sir 

 William More, married to Sir George Manwaring 

 of Ightfield, Shropshire, and had issue Sir Arthur, Sir 

 Henry, and Sir Thomas, kts., and George Manwaring 

 and two daughters. Over these four last-mentioned 

 figures are their respective coats of arms. 



The monument to Sir Christopher is a much 

 smaller one, affixed to the east wall north of the large 

 tomb ; it is a black marble tablet in a stone setting of 

 Renaissance design with a shield of arms over a large 

 swag of fruit and flowers. He was one of the king's 

 remembrancers of the Exchequer and was twice 

 married ; first to Margaret daughter and heir of 

 William Mudge, by whom he had issue Sir William 

 and five other sons and seven daughters ; the second 

 wife was Constance the daughter of Richard Sackville 

 and widow of William Heneage ; he died in 1549, 

 but the monument is of much later date, c. 1660. 

 On the south wall is a monument, which is an 

 almost exact replica of the last, to Sir Robert More, 

 one' of the Honourable Band of Pensioners to King 



James and King Charles, son and heir of Sir George 

 More, kt. He married Frances (daughter of Sampson 

 Lennard and his wife Margaret, Baroness Dacre 

 daughter of Thomas Fiennes, Lord Dacre, and sister 

 and heir of Gregory Fiennes, last of that name), by 

 whom he had issue Sir Poynings and others ; he 

 died at Loseley in 1625 ; over the monument is a 

 shield of forty-five quarters. A third similar monu- 

 ment is that on the west wall to Sir Poynings More, 

 created baronet in 1642 ; he married Elizabeth 

 daughter of William Fytche of Woodham Walter 

 (Essex) and had issue Sir William and other children ; 

 he died at Loseley in 1649, and Elizabeth in 1666. 

 There are other monuments to later members and 

 descendants of the family. Mr. William More- 

 Molyneux was the last to be buried there in 1907. 

 It is now closed for interments. The chapel has a 

 modern plaster panelled and vaulted ceiling with 

 corbel heads on the walls to the main ribs ; these 

 are also of plaster and are repetitions of the 

 heads of a king and a lady. In the window are 

 twelve modern shields of arms of the More family. 



There was an ancient monumental brass in the 

 former church, but it has now disappeared excepting 

 a scroll in two pieces with the inscription ' Mater 

 Dei memento mei.' The original is mentioned 

 in Aubrey's History of Surrey (1719) as the figure 

 of a priest in vestments with a scroll issuing from 

 his mouth and the inscription below : ' Hie jacet 

 Dfis Thomas Calcott presbyter parochialis istius 

 ecclesiae qui obiit xx die Mensis Julii anno 

 domini MCCCCLXXXXVII cujus anime propicietur deus 

 Amen.' 



In the porch among other monuments is a mural 

 brass inscription to Caleb the son of Philip Lovejoy, 

 who died in 1676 aged seventy-four ; the epitaph in 

 verse was composed by himself. He left a house in 

 Southwark for the benefit of the parish. 



Of the ten bells which hang in the tower, eight 

 were cast by Taylor & Co. in 1 879, and the other two 

 by Warner & Sons, 1 894. 



The communion plate comprises a silver cup of 

 1601, standing paten of 1791,3 large flagon of 1749, 

 two plates of 1835, and a silver spoon probably of 

 Norwegian make ; there is also an electro-plated cup, 

 probably of the 1 8th century. Besides these there 

 are two cups, two patens, and an alms-basin, all of 

 silver-gilt, dating from 187*. 



The registers begin in 15 62; the first book con- 

 tains baptisms, marriages, and burials from that year to 

 1 68 1 ; the second has all three, arranged in columns, 

 from 1682 to 1736 ; the third, the same from 1737, 

 the marriages finishing in 1754, and the others in 

 1812 ; the fourth continues the marriages from 1754 

 to 1812. The register contains the baptism of Arch- 

 bishop Abbot in 1562, and of a son of Robert 

 Devereux, second Earl of Essex, born at Loseley, 

 5 November 1636, who is not mentioned in any 

 peerage. 



The iron church of ST. LUKE in Addison Road is 

 a chapel-of-ease to Holy Trinity. 



The church of the ASCENSION is an iron chapel- 

 of-ease to St. Nicholas's in the district called Guildford 

 Park, near the railway station. 



The advowsons of Holy Trinity 



4DyQWSONS and St. Mary are commonly stated to 



have been granted by William Tes- 



tard to the Prior and convent of Merton in the 1 3th 



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