FARNHAM HUNDRED 



SEALE 



Chester, the son of Henry Chester, son of Henry 

 Chester and Hetty Billinghurst, sister to William 

 and George above. Henry Chester again settled 

 the estate, devising it to his only children, Henry 

 Chester and Frederick James Chester. Henry 

 Chester the elder died 22 July 1854, ^^^ Y^^^ °^ ^^' 

 succession. His son Henry Chester died by an 

 accident in the Alps, married but without children, 

 in 1869, and Frederick James became sole heir, his 

 brother having settled his moiety of the estate 

 upon him. Frederick James died 1883, and Henry 

 Morris Chester, his only surviving son, succeeded, 

 and is the present tenant for life under the settle- 

 ment of his uncle and his father.*' 



chancel with vestry on the north side, a central 

 tower with north and south transepts, a nave of 

 four bays with north aisle, and a south porch. 

 The walls are of local sandstone and the roofs 

 tiled. The interior work is chalk. The tower 

 was originally comparatively low, and terminated 

 in a pointed tiled roof, but in 1 860-61 it was raised 

 a storey and a spire added. It contains a clock and 

 six bells.«s 



The original church, which was built in the 

 thirteenth century, consisted of the chancel, 

 central tower, and nave,*' and of this date are the 

 lancet windows, one on each side of the chancel ; 

 the lower part of that on the north side has been 



Seale Church. 



Poyle is now the seat of Mr. Henry Morris Ches- 

 ter. The house is the original manor house dating 

 from the sixteenth century, though it was exten- 

 sively altered in the nineteenth century by Captain 

 Mangles. It is finely situated on the north side 

 of the Hog's Back range. 

 mnvpfj The church of Scale " stands on 

 a knoll of the lower greensand in 

 the middle of the hamlet. It consists of a 



taken away by making a door into the vestry. The 

 window in the south wall of the nave, east of the 

 porch, is probably of the fifteenth century. During 

 the eighteenth century a western gallery was added 

 and a small dormer window inserted in the wall on 

 the west side of the porch. In the following cen- 

 tury the church was so much altered and enlarged 

 that it is now difficult to follow the ancient plan. 

 About 1811 ^0 a shallow north transept was added. 



*s Information from the pedigree 

 lent to Mr. Manning by George Wood- 

 roffe, which is now in possession of Mr, 

 H. M. Chester, and is supplemented 

 from his information. See pedigree 

 opposite. 



" The invocation of the church is 

 unknown. 



<8 The bells were recast at Woking- 

 ham in 1606 at a cost of £^ \s. ijd. for 

 work, ^13 6s. 6d. for metal, loj. for 

 carriage, and two payments of gj. 6d. 

 and lit. for entertainment of those 

 who carried them — Churchwardens' 

 Accounts. 



*9 The dimensions in feet of the 

 original church were : chancel, 17 ft. by 

 18 ft. ; nave and tower, 52 ft. by 17 ft. 



60 The work was carried out at the 

 expense of Edward Becston Long. 



Robert Woodroffe d. 1710 



George died 

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Letitia=W. Billinghurst 



The Rev. William Billinghurst 



u 



William died George died 

 s.p 1824 s.p. m. 1854 



Hetty = Henry Chester 



Henry=Anne 



I Higham 



Henry Woodroffe:=Charlotte Morris 

 died 1854 I 



Charles= Charlotte Ellen 

 1 Cobb 



Henry died Frederick James Chester= Ellen Charlotte 



s.p. 1869 died 1883 I 



Henry Morris Chester 



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