ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE 



early twelfth century apse. Alfold, Godalming, Lingfield, Tandridge, 

 Titsey, and a few other instances of encaustic tiles might be cited ; but 

 they pale before the unrivalled collection from the site of Chertsey 

 Abbey (dating from the thirteenth century), and now dispersed between 

 several museums and private collections. The late excavations on the 

 site of Waverley Abbey have brought to light a great variety of tiles, 

 mostly of thirteenth century date, but a few perhaps somewhat older. 



From the remains that have come down to us it is easy to see that 

 Surrey must at one time have been singularly rich in mural paintings ; 

 as it is, she boasts perhaps the most interesting in England in the 

 remarkable painting at Chaldon. The following is a list of paintings 

 now or formerly existing in the county, of which a record has been 

 preserved : — 



Eleventh century. — Guildford, St. Mary's Church ; the Sacrifice of Isaac. 



Twelfth century. — Chaldon ; the Harrowing of Hell, and the Ladder of Salvation : Godal- 

 ming ; decorative colouring : St. Mary's Guildford ; a Doom, and scenes from the miricles of our 

 Lord and the life of St. John : Pirford ; the Manna in the Desert, Moses bringing water from 

 the Rock, the death of Jezebel : Wisley ; decorative patterns : Witley ; large indistinct figure 

 subject. 



Thirteenth century. — Byfleet ; figure of king seated : Charlwood ; legends of St. Margaret, 

 St. Nicholas, and St. Edmund : Godalming ; St. John Baptist : I.impsfield ; masonry pattern : 

 Oakwood ; figure and pattern subjects, among them perhaps St. George and the Visitation : 

 Stoke D'Abernon ; masonry pattern and part of a Majesty ; a crucifix on a pillar. 



Fourteenth century. — Great Bookham ; pattern decoration : Charlwood ; the Three Dead 

 and Three Living : Dunsfold ; the same subject ? : Ockham ; decorative patterns : Reigate ; 

 painting on roof : Shere ; vine pattern : Tatsfield ; patterns. 



Fifteenth century. — Albury ; St. Christopher : Blechingley ; arabesque pattern : Dunsfold ; 

 uncertain subject at west of nave : Kingston-on-Thames ; St. Blaise : Leigh ; traces of 

 colouring : Merstham ; figure of bishop, our Lady and Child, and ? Martyrdom of St. 

 Thomas of Canterbury : Warlingham ; St. Christopher. 



Later paintings. — East Moulsey ; Time and Death. 



Of the many destroyed paintings the following may be mentioned : 



Alfold ; Crucifixion, lily pots, roses, fifteenth century (whited over) : Beddington ; Scourg- 

 ing of our Lord, Carrying of the Cross, Crucifixion, c. 1400 : Cranleigh ; paintings over chancel arch 

 and nave arcade : Croydon ; Sts. George and Christopher : Dunsfold ; the Fall of Man, Nativity, 

 Coronation of our Lady, St. Christopher, and perhaps St. George, late thirteenth century : 

 Fetcham ; Coronation of our Lady, the Three Dead and Three Living, Extreme Unction, 

 Purgatory : Horley ; many traces of colouring : Kingston-on-Thames ; paintings destroyed 

 183s : Leatherhead ; Moses and Aaron, and royal arms, temp. Charles H. : Lingfield ; St. 

 Cyprian ?, St. Clement, St. Margaret, St. Michael, fifteenth century : Newdigate ; St. 

 Christopher, diaper patterns, c. 1470 : Putney ; masonry patterns : Worplesdon ; St. Chris- 

 I topher, Moses and Aaron over chancel arch. 



Less important remains exist at Capel, Caterham, Chipstead, East Clandon, Coulsdon, El- 

 stead, Mickleham, Reigate, and Woking. 



Of ancient oak doors and their ironwork not many examples sur- 

 vive. That at Woking (west door), c. i loo, of exceptional size, has 

 hinges and scroll work on the ancient oak, both apparently coaeval with 

 the stonework of the doorway. So also at Merton, the doorway on 

 the north of the nave, which can be dated with some degree of certainty 

 to 1 121, still retains the original door, covered with scrolled straps and 

 nails, and with C shaped hinges. The priest's door in the same 

 church also has ancient hinges. At Merstham, in the early thirteenth 

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