A HISTORY OF SURREY 



another, perhaps earlier, existed at Chiddingfold, but was replaced by 

 a modern copy ; while the wholly timber porches of Elstead, West 

 Horsley and Merton date from the latter half of the fourteenth century. 

 Hascombe and East Clandon porches were probably even older. Fifteenth 

 century timber porches occur at Albury, Pirford and West Clandon ; 

 Send church has a porch of the early half of the sixteenth century. 

 Stone porches of the earlier periods are rare in Surrey ; those of Wotton 

 and Chiddingfold are probably thirteenth or fourteenth century. But 

 several remain of fifteenth century date, as at Croydon, Beddington, 

 Blechingley, Merstham and Oxted. 



Thirteenth and fourteenth century manorial chapels are exception- 

 ally numerous in Surrey. They are nearly as large as the chancels to 

 which they are attached. Abinger, Banstead, Chaldon, Chiddingfold, 

 Cobham, Merstham, Nutfield, Witley and Wotton are a few instances. 



Low side windows are found in about twenty churches, as at Send, 

 Wisley, Compton, Chiddingfold, Wanborough, St. Mary's Guildford, 

 Wotton, East Clandon, Great and Little Bookham, Limpsfield, Tatsfield, 

 Warlingham and Addington, mostly of the first half of the thirteenth 

 century, but instances occur as late as the fifteenth. 



Crypts and charnel-houses are practically non-existent in Surrey. 

 In some few cases there may be a crypt whose existence has been for- 

 gotten. There is a crypt of fifteenth century date under the chancel of 

 Lingfield church, with an external door and windows. 



The Anchorite's cell was probably at one time a fairly common 

 feature in Surrey. We have remains of the cells, or traces of their 

 former existence, in at least five churches — Blechingley, Chessington, 

 Compton, Leatherhead and Shere — mostly on the north side of the 

 chancel. 



The ancient roofs of oak remain in the following churches : — 



Banstead, north chancel (thirteenth century) ; Great Bookham, south aisle {c. 1390) ; Chal- 

 don ; Charlwood ; Chessington (thirteenth century and later) ; Chiddingfold, with moulded 

 tie-beams and plates (thirteenth century) ; Cobham ; Compton (f late twelfth century) ; Crow- 

 hurst ; Dunsfold (fourteenth century) ; Fetcham (parts thirteenth century) ; Horsell (fourteenth 

 century) ; Limpsfield (thirteenth century) ; Send (fifteenth century) ; Shere ; Thursley 

 (? fifteenth century) j and Witley, transepts (c. H90). 



The group of more ornamented, and generally later, roofs includes 

 the following : — 



Beddington, Blechingley, Carshalton, Farnham, Godalming, St. Mary's Guildford, Ling- 

 field, Merstham (north chapel), Merton, Ockham, Pirford and Reigate. 



These belong to the fifteenth century for the most part. 



Ornamental plastering must occasionally have found its way into 

 the churches, as at Elstead, where the Pelican — the cognizance of Bishop 

 Fox — alternating with the jleur-de-lys and cross fleury^ were modelled on 

 the plaster ceiUng of the chancel. The roof of the Lumley chapel at 

 Cheam has a plaster ceiUng, dated 1592, richly ornamented with 

 quatrefoils and popinjays, the crest of that family. 



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