A HISTORY OF SURREY 



was no chancel arch, and the roof was either continuous over nave and 

 chancel, or the division was marked by a framework of timber and 

 plaster sometimes forming a sort of screen or partition. These simple 

 plans are, however, much more exceptional than in other counties 



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Simplicity 

 of plan is not in 

 itself evidence 

 of early date. 

 The cruciform 

 type was in ex- 

 istence side by 

 side with the 

 plain parallelo- 

 g r am. But 

 there was an- 

 other plan 

 intermediate 

 between these 

 — that of chan- 

 cel, central 



tower without transepts, and aisleless nave. Of this the following 

 churches are, in their original construction, examples : Albury, Betch- 

 worth, Carshalton, Charlwood, Scale and Shere. This plan is essentially 

 an early one, and in all cases, with the exception of Carshalton, which 

 belongs to the beginning of the thirteenth century, the date is either late 

 eleventh or early twelfth century. Godalming has not been included in 

 this list, as, although it seems to have assumed this plan at one stage of its 

 growth, it was not originally so built, and soon developed a cruciform plan. 

 Cruciform churches with central towers are found at Chipstead, 

 Dorking (old church, now rebuilt), Ewhurst, Godalming, St. Mary's 

 Guildford, Kingston and Witley. These are all, with the exception of 

 Kingston (which may be only a later rebuilding on the old lines), earlier 

 than the middle of the thirteenth century. The circumstances which 

 caused St. Mary's Guildford to grow up around a pre-Conquest tower 

 are exceptional. 



The original early naves were very generally enlarged by the 

 addition of aisles on one or both sides ; and these early narrow aisles 

 were commonly pulled down at later dates to give place to wider ones. 

 The twelfth century aisles, only 7 feet wide, remain at Compton and 

 the early thirteenth century south aisle, 8 feet wide, at Limpsfield. 



The apsidal end to chancels and side chapels is almost unknown in 

 Surrey. St. Mary Overie had, besides the apse to the main chancel, 

 others on the east of the transepts ; and probably St. Mary's Guildford 

 was originally finished with an apse ; the north and south chapels still 

 retain them. With the exception of Hascombe (rebuilt in modern 

 times), no other instance of an apse in connection with the smaller type 

 of village church is on record in Surrey. 



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