ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE 



chancels of Egham and Great Bookham, for in both churches contem- 

 porary inscribed stones recording the fact still remain. According to 

 these the dates of rebuilding were respectively 1327 and 1341, and the 

 graceful windows in the chancel at Great Bookham can thus be 

 accurately dated. It is hardly hazarding too much of a guess to con- 

 jecture that Byfleet church owes its 

 early fourteenth century windows and 

 piscina to the same munificent abbot 

 or his immediate predecessor. But 

 we must look to an older generation 

 for the chancel of Coulsdon, in which 

 are to be seen some of the most beauti- 

 ful mid-thirteenth century mouldings 

 in Surrey or elsewhere. In Chip- 

 stead, Cobham and Bisley churches 

 we find work of the early part of the 

 thirteenth and the latter half of the 

 twelfth century, doubtless due to 

 previous generations of the same 

 abbey's masons. 



The prior of Merton held the 

 advowson of Effingham from an early 

 period, and the chancel was rebuilt, 

 in all likelihood, by William de 

 Brokesbourne, prior from 1307 to 

 1335, In particular two small early 

 fourteenth century windows are 

 ascribed to him. Carshalton church 

 probably owes some of its earlier 

 features to this priory, to which the 

 advowson was given in the reign of 

 Henry II. 



A few monastic bodies outside 

 Surrey owned lands and advowsons in the county. Thus the fine church 

 of Shere probably derives some of its thirteenth and fourteenth century 

 features from Netley Abbey. Battle Abbey had a holding in Limpsfield, 

 and we may perhaps look to it for the interesting early thirteenth century 

 chancel. It is, of course, often the case that more than one religious 

 house held land in a particular parish,' so that it is open to question 

 which may have been responsible for its architectural features. But 

 where we find, as in the case of St. Martha's Chilworth, and Bramley 

 and Wonersh churches, that they were in the hands of bishop Odo of 

 Bayeux, or that, as at East Horsley, the bishops of Exeter possessed a 

 manor, it seems highly probable that these patrons caused to be built 

 some work still existing in the churches. 



I As, for example, Tooting, where among the landowners were Westminster Abbey, St. Mary Overie, 

 Chertsey Abbey and the canons of Bayeux. 



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