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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��Cranleigh between Wonersh and Shamley Green. It is built in the Italian Renaissance style, and will accommodate over one hundred students as well as the teaching staff.

On Blackheath is a Franciscan monastery with accommodation for students, built in 1892 ; this is

���WONERSH : THE POST-OFFICE, SHAMLEY GREEN

a. handsome building with a chapel of stone in the Renaissance style.

The churchyard is closed to interments. The cemetery, between the village and Blaclcheath, was given by Mrs. Sudbury of Wonersh Park in 1900. Burials previously took place in the new churchyard at Shamley Green.

There is a Liberal club in the village.

Among the many interesting old cottages and houses in the village are two or three with very perfect half-timber fronts, having projecting upper stories showing the ends of the floor-joists, with boldly-curved brackets, or jutty-pieces, at intervals, ogee-curved braces, and in one case a recessed centre flanked by projecting wings, of which one has been removed recently. Several good chimneys of various patterns are noteworthy. On the eastern side of the village is a good example of early 18th-century archi- tecture with hipped roof and sash windows.

Shamley Green, an outlying hamlet, contains a most interesting collection of old houses and cottages, some of which have evidently seen better days. The post-office 6 presents a charming study in roof-lines,

��and has a fine pair of chimneys and a timber-framed gable of very sharp pitch, filled in with brick. This gable possesses a good foliated barge-board of early character, very like one in the rear of West Horsley Place and another at Alfold. At the top of the Green is another good timber house with a projecting gable with a moulded bressummer on brackets and a barge-board of tracery work in the form of small quatrefoils pierced through the solid board. There is a good chimney, rising from the ground, with moulded brick bases to the shafts of the flues. More interesting still is a house with a half-timber front, a good projecting window, and a fine chimney. On the left side of the front is a wing of rubble and brick with tile-hung gable ; the centre braces and a gable on the right are framed in squares, with braces cut into ogee curves. 7 The gable is framed on a bressummer, and has a bold projection on spurs or brackets, the soffit being coved in plaster with moulded wooden ribs. The curved braces occur in the gable-end also, and the gable is framed with a rich barge-board of pierced quatrefoils set in moulded circles, re- sembling that in the before-mentioned example. In the apex of both gables is a clever arrangement for concealing the junction of the two sides of the barge-board. The story beneath this gable rests upon an elaborately moulded joist-board or bressummer. The ground story has been built out in brickwork. This house may date from about 1500.* Wonersh Park is a beautifully-tim- bered park through which runs a small stream. It formerly belonged to Richard Gwynn, who died in 1701, aged seventy- two. 9 His heiress was Susan Clifton, whose daughter and heiress Trehane married in 1710 Sir William Chappie, serjeant-at-law in 1723, who became a judge of the King's Bench in 1737 and died in 1745. He probably rebuilt the house. Sir William's eldest son, William, is said '"to have been unmarried. In the Wonersh Registers his mar- riage is entered, but is erased with such success that though his name and parentage are legible that of the lady is entirely gone, and the details of the probable mesalliance are consequently lost. All Sir William's sons died without issue, except one, whose two daughters prede- ceased him. His surviving daughter Grace therefore be- came his heiress, and married in 1741 Fletcher Norton of Grantley in Yorkshire, who was Solicitor-General in 1761, Attorney - General in 1763, Speaker of the House of Commons 1770, being then M.P. for Guildford, and was

���NORTON, Lord Grant- ley. Azure a sleeve er- mine tvitll a bend gules over all.

��' Illustrated by Mr. Nevill in his Old Cottage and Domestic Architecture in South- ivest Surr.

1 A common fashion in half-timber

��houses, at e.g. in a small house at Lin- 8 Old Cottages and Farmhouses in Surr.

sted, Kent ; at East Mascalls, Sussex ; and by Davie and Green, has good photographs in cottages in Wonersh, West Horsley, of this house. 9 Parish Registers.

��and East Clandon, Surrey. 122

��10 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, ill.

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