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Gaynesfords, Leigh with the Ardernes, Lingfield with the Cobhams, and 

 Merstham with the EUinbrygges. Other good groups of brasses are at 

 Beddington, Camberwell and Thames Ditton. 



Akin to the brasses are the cast-iron grave-slabs, which at one 

 time must have been fairly numerous. A few are to be found in Surrey, 

 among which may be instanced the very curious slab, 1591, to ANE 

 EOR8T(E)R. This bears, besides the inscription, a shroud and four 

 shields with rude kneeling figures and coats of arms thereon. 



There are but few monumental effigies now remaining, and the 

 county would appear never to have been rich in them, a fact somewhat 

 hard to understand, as the easily worked Reigate stone was well adapted 

 for such effigies, and was employed in fashioning many for London and 

 other churches. Only one oak figure has come down to us — the figure 

 of a knight, now lying in a recess in the north quire aisle at St. Mary 

 Overie, Southwark. The series of effigies includes the following : — 



Horley ; a knight, c 1320 : West Horsley ; a priest, c. 1325 : Guildford St. Nicholas; Arnold 

 Brocas, rector, 1395 : Streatham ; a knight, c. 1360 : Lingfield ; Reginald, first Lord Cobham, 

 1361 ; Sir Reginald Cobham and lady, 1446; and the second Lord Cobham, 1403 : Merstham j a 

 civilian, c. 1420 : St. Mary Overie, the poet Gower, c. 1408. 



There is a late type of tomb common to the south-eastern coun- 

 ties, of which Surrey exhibits a number of examples. It is in most 

 cases of Petworth or Purbeck marble, and usually takes the form of a 

 canopied altar-tomb, generally recessed in the wall, and most commonly 

 furnished with brasses. The strong family likeness evident in various 

 groups suggests that the marble masons must have modelled them upon 

 a general design, and kept a stock in hand to supply their customers. 

 The following may be instanced as Surrey examples : — 



Beddington (Sir Richard Carew, 1520) ; Carshalton (Nicholas Gaynesford, c. 1495) ; 

 Cranley ; Croydon (Elias Davey, 1455, and Warham monument, ? 1538) ; Godalming (John 

 Westbroke, 1513); Kingston (several, all late) ; Merstham (John Ellinbrygge, 1473) ; Mickleham 

 (William Wydowson, 1513) ; Peperharrow (Johanna Addirley, 1487) ; Thames Ditton and Witley. 



At Blechingley is an altar-tomb of Renaissance character (1559) to 

 the memory of Sir Thomas Cawarden, the sides of which have en- 

 riched panels and elaborate mouldings. This forms a link between the 

 pre-Reformation altar-tombs and the numerous later sixteenth and early 

 seventeenth century monuments, of which Surrey furnishes a fine series. 

 As is usual in monuments of this class, they are largely composed of 

 alabaster and various coloured marbles, and frequently enriched with 

 colour and gilding. Nearly every church in the county possesses one 

 or more belonging to this period. 



Later monuments, belonging to the Restoration period and to the 

 eighteenth century, are plentiful, but have no special local features. 

 Among churchyard monuments the wooden ' bed-head ' or grave-board, 

 with its simply moulded posts and shaped inscription-board, should be 

 mentioned. These probably have a very ancient pedigree, and must 

 have been the rule rather than the exception in many churchyards of the 



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