A HISTORY OF SURREY 



century). Send, Burstow, Chessington (sixteenth century), Epsom, St. 

 Mary Overie (Elizabethan), and Oxted. 



Smaller details which may be noted are the fragments of alabaster 

 carvings (fifteenth century) found at West Horsley and Chessington, the 

 copper cauldron, called ' Mother Ludlam's Cauldron,' at Frensham, 

 and brass candelabra at St. Mary Overie, East Horsley, and elsewhere. 



The bells of the county have been thoroughly dealt with by the 

 late J. C. L. Stahlschmidt in his Surrey Bells and London Bellfounders. 

 It need only here be noted that the bell in Chaldon church is one of the 

 oldest in use in England. 



The church plate has been published by the Rev. T. S. Cooper in 

 Surr. Arch. Coll., vols. x. to xvi. 



The sepulchral monuments of the county commence with the rude 

 grave-slabs of coarse local sandstone found in some numbers at Titsey, 

 and also at Oxted, Tandridge and Warlingham. These are very thick 

 (6 to 9 inches), and the earliest have a plain Latin cross in relief occupy- 

 ing the whole length and breadth of the slab. With them at Titsey 

 were found others worked in chalk-stone or ' burr,' of more ordinary 

 character, bearing floriated crosses and other ornaments of thirteenth 

 century design. The purpose of all seems to have been to mark the 

 sites of the graves, and they were no doubt merely laid on the surface 

 of the ground. 



Stone and Sussex marble coffin lids are found in many churches, 

 and are usually of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, a few 

 being even older. Examples occur in St. Mary Overie {c. 1180), 

 with the sun, moon and stars grouped within the arms of the cross ; at 

 St. Martha's (or Martyr's) chapel ; at Chipstead, Chaldon, Cranley, 

 Frensham, Mickleham, Stoke D'Abernon, Effingham, and St. Mary 

 Overie. The four last-named have inscriptions incised around the edges 

 in Lombardic letters, and are of thirteenth and early fourteenth century 

 date. At Caterham is a slab with an incised cross and the remains of an 

 undecipherable inscription of fifteenth century character. 



The monumental brasses of the county are a numerous and import- 

 ant series. Mr. Mill Stephenson tabulates them as follows : — 



Ecclesiastics i ^ 



Military figures 26 



Civilians 62 



Ladies alone 26 



Miscellaneous . c 



136 



Among them is included the oldest remaining example of this class 

 of memorial in England— the brass to Sir John Daubernoun (Stoke 

 D'Abernon, 1 277. This church is but one of several noteworthy for a 

 series of the brasses or monuments of particular families. Thus, Great 

 Bookham is associated with the Slyfield family, Camberwell with the 

 Scotts, Cheam with the Fromondes and Lumleys, Crowhurst with the 



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