A HISTORY OF SURREY 



century doorway of the tower, are peculiarly elegant strap-work 

 hinges, nail heads and key-scutcheon on oak doors of contemporary 

 date. Some of the scrolls terminate in a sort of dragon's head. Crow- 

 hurst has a door of early thirteenth century date, with its original hinges 

 of plain design, on the south of the nave ; and Dunsfold, late in the 

 century, retains a massive oak door with large plain hinges and straps, 

 together with an arched border fillet round the head, a closing ring, 

 key-scutcheon, etc. The south door of Send church has some good 

 late ironwork and a massive lock-case. 



In screen work the county is not very rich. The best examples 



are 



c. 1180, Compton (a balustrade rather than a screen) in the chapel over the chancel. Late 

 fourteenth century : Farnham, Cranley, and Beddington. Fifteenth century : Alfold, Great 

 Bookham, Chipstead, Elstead, Gatton, Godalming, Hascombe, Horley, Home, Horsell, West 

 Horsley, with return stalls on its east face, Leigh, Lingfield, Merstham, Nutfield, Reigate, Send, 

 with the returns of parcloses, Shere, Thursley, Wanborough, and Witley. Sixteenth century : 

 Charlwood and Chelsham. Seventeenth century : Compton. 



Chancel seats with misericords remain at Beddington, Lingfield, Nutfield, Ockham, West 

 Horsley, and Worplesdon. 



Ancient seating at Dunsfold (late thirteenth century with scalloped tops), Witley (four- 

 teenth century), Woking, Send, Alfold, Nutley, Pirford (fifteenth century), Chessington, Pirford, 

 Croydon, Whitgift's Hospital (sixteenth century). 



Surrey possesses two pulpits for which a pre-reformation date may 

 be claimed — those of Crowhurst and Nutfield. Later specimens are to 

 be found at Beddington and Charlwood (Elizabethan), Compton {c. 1600), 

 Byfleet and West Moulsey {c. 1620), Woking (1622), Newdigate (1627), 

 Pirford, Send and Stoke D'Abernon, also at Chaldon (1650), and there 

 are many eighteenth century examples. 



Pulpit hour-glasses, with wrought-iron stands, remain at Bleching- 

 ley and Stoke D'Abernon. 



There are two mediaeval lecterns in Surrey, a brass eagle at Croydon 

 and one of oak at Lingfield, both of fifteenth century date. The latter 

 bears a black-letter chained Bible. 



One or two of the fine western galleries of the early part of the 

 seventeenth century have managed to survive the changes and chances 

 of ' restoration.' Of these may be cited the examples at Send, Woking, 

 Walton-on-Thames and Newdigate. 



Surrey possesses an interesting series of church chests, the earliest 

 of which appear to be the rude gouged-out, roughly squared tree-trunks, 

 bound round with iron straps, as at Newdigate and Betchworth. This 

 type is of great antiquity, and would be perpetuated for practical reasons 

 long after the skill of the carpenter had evolved a chest of posts, rails and 

 panels such as the thirteenth century example at Stoke D'Abernon, which 

 retains its sht and tray for money-offerings. It belongs to a family of 

 about a dozen in various parts of the south of England, a few orna- 

 mented, but mostly of plain design, except for the scrolled ends to their 

 iron straps. Shere, Godalming and Chobham churches possess similar 

 chests, but of plainer character. Later chests exist at Charlwood (fifteenth 



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