A HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX 



estate lies on the borders of the neighbouring parish 

 of Staines, and perhaps represents that part of the 

 manor which originally lay in that parish. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey, the Count 

 of Mortain held two hides in Laleham. 100 This 

 land had been in the time of Edward the Con- 

 fessor in the possession of the abbey of West- 

 minster, under whom it was held by the bailiff of 

 Staines, who could not sell it out of the soke of 

 Staines without permission from the abbey.' 01 

 The Count of Mortain gave it to the abbey of 

 Fecamp, and the abbot still held lands and rent 

 in Laleham in 1 1 34, which he exchanged for other 

 lands in France with Nigel son of William, nephew 

 (ntpoi) of Robert, Earl of Gloucester. 10 ' There is 

 no further trace of this land, but it is probable 

 that it came again into the hands of Westminster 

 Abbey, and that it was then merged in the manor 

 of Laleham. 



The church of ALL S41NTS, a 

 CHURCH little ivy-grown brick-faced building, 

 though containing some I zth-century 

 work in the nave, has been so altered and rebuilt 

 that little really old work is left ; at the present 

 time it consists of a brick-faced chancel 21 ft. 6 in. 

 by I 5 ft. 4 in., a north chapel belonging to the Earls 

 of Lucan, 21 ft. by 13 ft. 9 in., faced with I 7th- 

 century brickwork, a nave 34 ft. by 1 5 ft. 4 in. of the 

 1 2th century, which had north and south aisles, of 

 which the latter has been pulled down and the 

 former rebuilt in modern times, and at the west 

 end of the north aisle an 1 8th-century brick tower, 

 covered with ivy, having a west doorway and 

 round-headed windows. 



There is no east window to the chancel, the 

 space being occupied by a large picture of our 

 Lord walking on the water with St. Peter ; this is 

 lit by a skylight above. On the north side the 

 wall has been cut away towards the Lucan chapel, 

 which is lit on the north and east by square-headed 

 cut brick windows of three four-centred lights. 

 On the south side of the chancel is a modern 

 Gothic doorway. 



The chancel arch is slightly pointed, of one 

 chamfered order, with a chamfered abacus, all so 

 covered with colour wash that it is impossible to 

 be sure of its age The nave has arcades of three 

 bays of late 12th-century date, with edge-cham- 

 fered pointed arches on massive round columns 

 with scalloped capitals ; all the arches have cham- 

 fered labels, except the east arch of the north 

 arcade. The label of the middle arch of this 

 arcade has billet ornament on its label, re-used 

 material from an arch of different radius. In 

 the blocking of the south arcade are two 

 modern two-light windows in ijth-century style, 

 and in the western bay a doorway which looks 

 like 14th-century work, leading into a red brick 

 porch. At the west end of the nave is a gallery 



containing an organ, which hides a modern three- 

 light window. 



The north aisle has three modern two-light 

 north windows like those on the south of the nave ; 

 at the west end is a gallery, and the east end opens 

 to the Lucan chapel by a plain chamfered pointed 

 arch. 



In the chancel is a monument to George Perrott, 

 baron of the Exchequer, who died 1780, and his 

 wife Mary, 1784, and there are others of the 

 1 9th century. The font, at the west end of the 

 north aisle, is modern, in 1 2th-century style. 



There are three bells by William Eldridge, 

 1663, and a set of eight tubular bells. 



The plate consists of modern chalice, paten and 

 flagon, and a standing paten, the gift of Samuel 

 Freeman, 1767. 



The registers date from 1538. Book (i) contains 

 baptisms 1538 to 1690, burials 1538 to 1682, and 

 marriages 1539 to 1643 ; (ii) baptisms 1690 to 

 1692, marriages 1682 to 1683, 1643 to 1690 ; 

 (iii) printed marriages 1754 to 1789 and 1801 to 

 1 8 1 2 ; (iv) burials 1 804 to 1812, baptisms 1 804 to 

 1 8 1 2 ; (v) marriages and baptisms 1 789 to 1 80 1 , and 

 burials 1789 to 1802, having threepenny stamps. 



Laleham was from the earliest 

 JDrOJfSON times a chapelry of Staines, 10 ' with 

 which it was probably appropri- 

 ated, but until the I5th century it was served 

 by a separate vicar appointed by the Abbot 

 and Convent of Westminster, patrons of the 

 mother church. 104 By an order made by William, 

 Bishop of London, however (probably between 

 1426 and 1431), the vicar of Staines was in 

 future to appoint curates to the chapels of that 

 church, but it was provided that if there were any 

 vicar who had been canonically appointed to any of 

 the chapels, he should remain there during his life- 

 time. 105 Apparently the order came into force at 

 Laleham during the latter half of the I5th century, 

 for the last institution to the vicarage took place in 

 December 1439, and in 1492 Laleham is men- 

 tioned as a chapel in the institution to the vicarage of 

 Staines. 106 At the Dissolution the patronage of the 

 latter fell to the Crown. In 1542 the advowson of 

 Laleham was separated from that of Staines, and was 

 granted to the dean and chapter of the Cathedral 

 Church of Westminster, 107 but there is no mention of 

 an institution to the vicarage, and in 1550 Lalehnm 

 appears again as a chapel of Staines in the presenta- 

 tion of that living which was then the gift of the 

 Crown. 108 In 1560 the queen granted the vicarage 

 and free chapel of Laleham to the newly-founded 

 Collegiate Church of Westminster, 109 but again 

 there is no record of any institution. 110 In 1612 

 the advowson was given with the manor to Sir 

 Henry Spiller, 111 from whom it descended to Sir 

 Thomas Reynell, 1 " who presented immediately 

 after the Restoration and again in 1662 and 1663. "* 



100 Dem. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i, 129. 

 ll Ibid. 



101 Round, Cal. of Doc. France, 41. 

 108 Pc^ MY*. Tajf. (Rec. Com.), 17 ; 



Doc. in custody of the D. and C. of 

 Wcstm. press 5, shelf 2, no. 16782, 

 16811 ; Feud, Aidt, ii, 378. 



lw Newcourt, /Je/r/. i, 683 ; Ca/. 

 Pr. 1313-17, p. 459 ; I38J-5. p. 

 395- 



05 Lond. Epis. Reg. Gilbert, fol. 



108 Newcourt, Repert. i, 683. 



W i. aw-* ". #M. *V/7, xvii, p. 395. 



400 



108 Newcourt, op. cit. 



10 Pat. 2 Eliz. pt. xi, m. 19. 



110 Newcourt, op. cit. 



111 Pat. 10 Jas. I, pt. vii, no. 18. 

 Ila See manor. 



" Int. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



