A HISTORY OF SURREY 



windows of three lights of sinular date in the north 

 and south walls. The three sedilia are of the 

 fifteenth century, with ogee-arched heads and 

 feathered cusps, finished at the sUl of the 

 south window with a horizontal string ; in the 

 spandrils are open quatrefoils. The piscina with 

 a shelf above is included under a fourth arch 

 ranging with the rest. The altar rails are of fine 

 and elaborate seventeenth century work. On the 

 same line, high up on the north and south waUs, 

 are moulded corbels for a beam running across the 

 chancel. There used to be an altar-piece of the 

 Last Supper by Elmer, a local painter of the 

 eighteenth century, famous for his pictures of game 

 and fruit. The western part of the chancel has 

 walls 3 feet 3 inches thick, and opens to the north 

 and south chapels by two arches on each side, the 

 western pair being of the end of the twelfth cen- 

 tury, with pointed arches of two orders with small 

 chamfers, and half round responds with scalloped 

 capitab and moulded bases. Of the eastern pair 

 that on the north is similar, but has early thirteenth 

 century mouldings in its capital. That on the 

 south has scalloped capitals like those of the 

 western pair, but an arch of two orders with large 

 hollow chamfers, which may date from the re- 

 building of the chancel completed in 1399, or from 

 the general rebuilding of the western part of the 

 church. All four arches are insertions in an older 

 wall, and at the two internal western angles of the 

 chancel are vaulting corbels with carved capitals 

 which belong to the church of circa 1 1 30. Other 

 remains of the same date are the two buttresses 

 outside this wall towards the chapels. That on the 

 north is the better preserved. It is ashlar faced 

 with a roll string, and higher up in the wall beside 

 it is part of a chamfered string giving the probable 

 level of the spring of the original wdndow arches. 

 Both buttresses are defaced with monuments. 

 The chancel arch, being in the east wall of the 

 former central tower, is 4 ft. l in. thick, pointed, 

 of three chamfered orders with half-round re- 

 sponds and scalloped capitals. The stone work 

 is all modern, the arch having been rebuilt in 

 1841. 



The north chapel, 34 ft. by 19 ft. inside, has 

 three tall lancet windows to the east, partly 

 original, and a three-light fifteenth century win- 

 dow to the north. It opens to the north transept 

 by an arch of two hollow chamfered orders with 

 octagonal responds ; a fifteenth century wooden 

 screen runs across the opening. The roof is 

 ancient, perhaps fifteenth century, Vfith tie beams, 

 king posts, and collared rafters. 



The south chapel is of the same size, lighted by 

 three windows with modem fifteenth century 

 tracery. At the west is a wide late twelfth century 

 pointed arch of two chamfered orders, the inner 

 order shafts having scalloped capitals. There is 

 a flat wooden fifteenth century ceiling, and a 

 wooden screen in the western arch similar to that 

 in the north chapel. The buttresses at the 

 eastern angles of the chapek are very massive, and 

 may in their original condition have carried 

 pinnacles. The transepts were lengthened north 

 and south in 1855 (from designs by Mr. B. Ferry, 



architect). In the gable ends are modem windowi 

 of three lights in fifteenth century style with circular 

 quatrefoiled lighu above. 



Of the central tower part of the east wall alone 

 remains. The side waUs are of the date of the 

 rebuilding of the nave, and the west wall is re- 

 moved. 



The nave, including the old tower area, ii of 

 seven bays, without clearstory. •" The arches of the 

 arcades at the east end of the aisles are of two 

 orders with large hollow chamfers, with octagonal 

 capitals, shafts and bases. They belong to the 

 local fifteenth century style, but are largely the 

 result of the restoration in 1855. The aisle walls 

 are very massive, and may be older than the arcade, 

 but material evidence is ' restored ' away. The 

 north doorway was perhaps early thirteenth cen- 

 tury in its original state, and the virindows have 

 modern fourteenth century tracery. The south 

 doorway, now blocked, has a plain pointed arch 

 with a chamfer. The west windows of both 

 aisles are insertions in an older wall, the arched 

 heads of the former windows remaining above 

 them, but all stone work is modernized. At the 

 west end of the north wall is the now blocked arch 

 before mentioned, with the same details as the 

 nave arcades, which possibly opened into a lateral 

 north-west chapel of which no further trace re- 

 mains. Both aisles have fifteenth or sixteenth 

 century roofs, with tie beams and king posts with 

 struts. The wooden south porch is modern. 



The west tower is sixteenth century work of 

 four stages, with square-headed belfry windows of 

 three uncusped lights. A tall belfry with pin- 

 nacles, pierced parapets, and two tracery windows 

 in each face was added in 1865. The tower 

 has octagonal buttresses ; those at the east angles 

 contain vices and project into the church, destroy- 

 ing the west responds of the nave arcades. The 

 details of mouldings are very large and coarse. 



The west doorway has a low four-centred arch ; 

 above is a four-light window restored in 1846. 

 Over this are the remains of three moulded cor- 

 bels with canopies for images. The font is modem. 

 It is octagonal and carved. 



The communion plate consists of two silver 

 chalices with London hall-marks of 1797. They 

 replaced an earlier chalice given by Mr. John 

 Byworth, gent, (died 1623), who presented a 

 silver-gilt chalice of thirty-two ounces weight."* 

 There is a silver paten, weight five ounces, with 

 London hall-marks of 1623, inscribed ' The gyft 

 of Jhon Byworth too the Churchwardens and 

 Parishners of Farneham.' This is the cover of 

 the chalice given by Byworth, the weight of which 

 indicates a chalice with a cover, and an extract 

 from the wall of John Byworth, preserved among 

 the Town Accounts, says that he left a cup with a 

 cover. There is also a silver paten of the same 

 date, but not inscribed. There are two silver 

 patens wdth London hall-marks of 1690 and 1712 

 respectively. The latter is inscribed ' ex dono 



'■" A nave clearstory is said to have been destroyed io 

 the Civil Wars. 



"' Recorded in register of burials. 



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