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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

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��Field Place, a small manor-house, shows a most delightful collection of roofs of all sorts of pitches and dispositions, and two good chimneys, one of which has crow-steps to the breast below. Part of the house is built of brick and stone.

GRAFFHAM GRANGE was an old house held by the abbey of Waverley of Roger de Clare, c. 1238, and inhabited by a family who took their name from it. About that year Walter Giffard, Abbot of Waverley, (1236-51), granted all the rights of the abbey in Graffham to Walter de Graff ham for a rent of 1 6s. a year, still paid to Markwick, a former possession of the abbey, in 1808."

Elias of Graffham owned a mill in Shalford in the 13th century. 45 About 1325 Eleanor widow of John of Graffham signed a bond at Graffham. 46 In I 367 John of Graffham resigned Graffham to his son Hugh. 47 Thomas of Graffham, lojuly 1445, granted all his land in Dunsfold and elsewhere to John Provys and Thomas George. 45 John Elliot died seised of a messuage called ' Graffam ' in 1 640." It passed from the Elliots to the Mellersh family, from whom Mr. Richard Eager bought it in 1803. He sold it to Mr. James Stedman of Guild- ford in 1832. Mr. J. C. McAndrew was the late owner, and it now belongs to Mr. F. A. Shepherd.

HIGH LOXLET, a farm near Park Hatch, in Has- combe, was in the possession of the Hull family in the 1 6th and I 7th centuries." Thomas Hull conveyed it to John Machell, who sold it in 1682 to John Child ; " his grand- son Charles Child is said to have succeeded to it and to have left it to his niece Martha Searle (see Tangley, in Wo-

nersh). It was purchased in 1770 by Peter Flutter, whose daughter carried it in marriage to John Martyr."

SMITHBROOK Manor was a possession of the Knights of St. John, 53 and was an appurtenance of their preceptory of Poling, co. Sussex. 54 Queen Elizabeth granted the manor to Edward Wymarke, 65 who appears to have sold it to George Austen of Shalford. 56 George Austen died seised of it in 1621. w From that time it descended with the rectory manor of Shalford (q.v.).

The church of ST. MART AND CHURCHES ALL S4INTS stands remote from the village on a hillock well elevated above the surrounding country. To the east of the church is the rectory-house, a picturesque gabled and tile-hung structure, probably dating from the 1 5th century.

The churchyard, approached from the east, is large,

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��and has been extended down the slope of the hill to the south during recent years. Besides other trees it contains two yews, one of which, with a hollow trunk, close by the south porch, is probably one of the most ancient trees in the county.

The walls are constructed of Bargate stone rubble, of a bright yellow colour in places, with dressings of the same stone, and the mortar joints of the walling are galleted with chips of ironstone in parts ; but this, although an ancient local fashion, may only date from recent restorations, when large parts of the walls were re-faced or re-pointed and some rebuilt. In Crack- low's view they appear as plastered externally. A border of Horsham slabs, with which the entire church was roofed originally, remains on the nave and north transept roofs, but they have mostly been re- placed by tiles. The timber bell-turret, at the west end, and its square spire, are covered with oak shingles.

Its cruciform plan follows a favourite local type, Cranley, Ewhurst, Witley,Godalming,and St. Martha's chapel being neighbouring examples of cross churches. But in these cases the plan seems to have grown to the cruciform shape, whereas here it would appear to have been designed from the first. The nave is 47 ft. long by 20 ft. 9 in., the chancel (the axis of which inclines to the north) 3 1 ft. 6 in. by 1 6 ft. 3 in., and the transepts, which vary in width between 1 2 ft. 2 in. and 12 ft. 10 in., have the shallow projection of 8 ft. internally. There is a spacious porch on the south of the nave coeval with the church ; and on the north of the chancel vestries and an organ-chamber have been built in modern times. There are original buttresses, two at each angle, except on the east side of the transepts. The west respond of the south transept arch is an entire octagonal column, the obvious assumption being that the intention of the builders abandoned during the progress of the work was to build an aisle on this side instead of a transept. The timber turret at the west end is carried on four huge oak baulks with arched braces, and is probably a 1 5th-century addition.

The date of the entire church is between 1270 and 1290, and it is remarkable for being practically all in the one style. If there were an earlier building the place itself is not named in Domesday no trace of it remains in the stonework. About 1304 the advowson, which was (as it now is) in the hands of the Crown, was given by Edward I to the hospital of St. Mary at Spital without Bishopsgate, and to this circumstance is doubtless due the erection of the church, and the exceptional beauty and regularity of the work. 58

The chancel is of two bays, each with a two-light window, in which the lights have trefoiled cusping with a circle over containing a pointed trefoil ; the whole within a pointed inclosing arch, and worked with mouldings on three planes, some parts being exceptionally delicate and rich for country work. This

��** Deeds formerly in possession of Mr. Mellersh of Godalming, quoted by Man- ning and Bray, op. cit. ii, $9. Possibly the rent was included in the advowsons, &c. in Dunsfold belonging to the abbey at the Dissolution. The advowson did not be- long to it.

Feet of F. Surr. 32 Hen. Ill, 53.

4 * Deeds quoted by Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, $9.

��4 ' Ibid. Ibid.

49 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), mcci, 147.

Com. Pleas D. Enr. Mich. 23 Chas. I.
 * Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 20 Jas. I ;

61 Recov. R. Trin. 14 Chas. II, m. 137; R. of West Bramley quoted by Manning and Bray.

M According to Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 60.

M Cott. MS. Claud. E. 6, fol. 143.

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��" Ibid. fol. 281.

65 Pat. 30 Eliz. pt. vii, m. I.

w See Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 59.

" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxcvii, 90.

68 There are points of resemblance be- tween this work and that in Trotton Church, Sussex, and in the transepts of North Stoke Church in the same county, both somewhat elaborate work of about the same date.

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