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in its apex, is incorporated in the west wall of the central tower of Godalming church.' But 

 far more interesting are the richly-carved stones, with interlaced and other patterns, now in 

 the south chancel, discovered at the restoration of the church in 1879.2 



The tower of St. Mary's church, Guildford, is the most important structural work of this 

 period remaining to us in Surrey. The present church has been built round it, so that the 

 tower is now central, but originally the ground story was external on the north and south and 

 possibly the west, as is proved by the original double-splayed windows and rude pilaster strips 

 or buttresses in the north and south walls. These buttresses appear above the roofs in the 

 upper stage of the tower, and are noteworthy as being constructed entirely of flints without 

 any stone quoining. The windows of the ground story are also built in this manner.' 



The principal evidence of the pre-Conquest date claimed for Stoke D'Abernon Church 

 is the general character of the walling, and in particular some herring bone work of Roman 

 brick, re-used material to which the Roman brick mortar still adheres in places, in the south 

 wall of the chancel, while a window of peculiar character, possibly also pre-Conquest, together 

 with more fragments of Roman brick, is to be seen high up in the south wall of the nave. In 

 the same wall is a sundial with a projecting face, for which the same early date is claimed. 

 The height of the wall in which this is 

 built is another evidence of its pre-Con- 

 quest origin. The bases of the pillars at 

 Albury old church are formed of parts 

 of Roman columns said to have been 

 brought from Farley Heath. 



In Betchworth church a small frag- 

 ment remains, which undoubtedly be- 

 longs to this period. It is a capital or 

 base of a shaft, circular in form, and 

 composed of a number of narrow square- 

 edged bands, projecting one beyond the 

 other, and is now built into a modern 

 window in the tower. 



FROM c. 1070 TO c. 1 1 20. 

 Of work executed in the last thirty 

 years of the eleventh and the first twenty 

 of the twelfth century a few examples 

 may be cited. The north and south 

 arches of the ground-story of the tower 

 at St. Mary's, Guildford, belong to this 

 period, and perhaps also the chancel, with 

 remains of two blocked windows. 



Abinger. — ^Walls and windows of nave, 



c. 1080. 

 Addington. — A blocked window in south 



wall of chancel, c. I080. 

 Alford. — Font, c. iioo. 



Betchworth. — An arch in the tower (shifted), c. 1080. 



Charlwood. — Central Tower, north and west walls of nave, with one window, c. 1080. 

 Chobham. — Windows in nave, above later arcade, c. 1080. 

 CoMPTON. — ^Tower, c. 1075. 

 EwHURST. — Parts of nave, c. iioo. 

 Farley. — Nave, with west door, c. 1075. 

 Hambledon. — Font, c. iioo. 

 MiCKLEHAM. — West door of nave, c. 11 20. 



» See Welman's Parish and. Church of Godalming, 1900, where the facts relating to the author's dis- 

 covery of this early work are very fully and ably set forth. The same writer gives the dimensions of the 

 foundations discovered in ' the minster field ' at Tuesley, near Godalming, of a very early Saxon church 



2 In a hard shelly limestone, similar to that found in the Isle of Wight, and much used m many of 

 the churches of pre-Conquest date in Sussex. 



3 There are traditions of a still older church at Albury (? Romano-British), the SUe of which used 

 to be pointed out, 



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