ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE 



and the door in the west wall of the transept has a triangular head. These triangular heads 

 are found also in the piscina in the north transept at Fetcham, and in a double piscina in 

 the North Chapel at Cobham, and it has been suggested that as Cobham and Chipstead 

 churches belonged to Chertsey Abbey, the same architect was employed on both Another 

 theory, originated by the late Mr. Street, is that Chipstead, Merstham, Gatton and Merton, 

 in Surrey, and Cliffe-at-Hoo and Brasted churches in Kent were all the work of the same 

 architect. Certainly they have many features in common, such as quatrefoil openings in the 

 clearstories, double chamfered hood-mouldings and string courses, capitals and arches of 

 similar sections and doorways of kindred design. At Merstham, Merton, Clifle and Brasted 

 there are, or were originally, blind arches rising from the floor to the wall plate in the chancel, 

 transepts or tower, forming in some cases a continuous arcade, in which windows were pierced. 

 The details of these are precisely similar, and there can be no doubt that the period of execu- 

 tion is the same.' There is also a curious resemblance in the trefoiled and segmental forms of 

 the door heads at Merstham, Chipstead and Cliffe. 



There is a peculiar feature in the work of this period at Banstead which merits special 

 notice — the little firestone column belonging to the two arches dividing the chancel from 

 the north chapel. The actual shaft is only 4 ft. 8 in. by i ft. 4J in., and in plan it is octagonal, 

 but the sides are alternately hollowed and sunk flat, with chamfered angles. The capital 

 is moulded and square, with the angles canted, and springing from them knots of stiff foliage 

 like an elaborated volute. The whole design is unlike anything else in Surrey, and bears a 

 close resemblance to some of the shafts in the chapter house and other parts of Lincoln Cathe- 

 dral. It dates, like the work at Lincoln, from the very beginning of the thirteenth century. 



FROM c. 1220 TO c. 1260. 

 To the next forty years belong the following : — 



Barnes. — East triplet (modernized). 



BiSLEY. — Fabric generally. 



Blechingley. — Blocked windows in south chapel, arcade and lancets in chancel and south and 



west doors, c. 1220. 

 BooKHAM, Little. — East window, with marble shafts and fohaged capitals, resembling those in the 



east window of Ockham, c. 1230. 

 Caterham. — ^Windows and door in chancel, chancel arch and north aisle of nave. 

 Chaldon. — South chapel, south aisle of nave, with arcade, piscina, etc. 

 Chelsham. — ^Windows, south wall of chancel, piscina in east wall, c. 1250. 

 Chessington. — Parts of nave, etc. Base of font. 

 Chiddingfold.— Chancel and north chapel, south door and porch. Fine groups of lancets and 



coaeval roof to chancel, c. 1 230. 

 Clandon, East. — Chancel. 



Clandon, West. — Lancet windows, sedile, piscina and aumbry. 

 CouLSDON. — Nave, north aisle, chancel, c. 1260. 

 EwHURST. — Windows in transepts. 



Farley.— Eastern part of chancel. The east wall has two lancets, instead of the usual triplet. 

 Fetcham. — Chancel arch, possibly heightened at restoration. 

 Godalming.— Triplet in south wall of south chapel, separated by muUions, and with detached 



marble shafts on inside, c. 1260. 

 Guildford. — Lancets, and door in north aisle. 

 HoRSLEY, West. — East window, triplet. 

 LiMPSFiELD.— Chancel and north chapel, c. 1230. Two-light window, with circle over, in tower 



ground-Story (restored), c. 1250. 

 Newdigate. — Chancel, two-light window with circle over. 

 NtJTFiELD. — Lancet and double recess or aumbry, north wall of chancel. 

 Oakwood. — Fabric generally, with lancet windows and doors. 



1 There are similar constructional arches in the ground-story of the towers of Cliffe-at-Hoo and St. 

 Mary Cray Church, Kent, both of this date. These blind arcades— as distinguished from the ordmary 

 wall arcading— comparatively lofty and forming frames for windows, are a feature fairly common in Kent 

 and other counties. Hartlip ' church has one of late twelfth century date on each side of the chancel. 

 They are found also in Horton Kirby, Dartford, Rainham, Upchurch, Newington and Sittingbourne 

 churches, all in Kent, and all belonging to the early part of the thirteenth century. Teynham churcL 

 Kent, has many points in common with this series. The remarkable blind arcades m the chancel of 

 Coulsdon Church, Surrey, are a later development. 



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