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��Christ Church Shamley Green was built in 1864 as a chapel of ease to Wonersh. It is in the 13th-cen- tury style, of sandstone with a west turret and spire.

On Blackheath is a chapel of ease to the parish church. It is built of stone in Italian Gothic or Romanesque style.

The church of Wonersh was JDrOWSONS formerly a chapel of Shalford, and as such was in the presentation of the king. 47 In I 304-5 Edward I granted it to the Hospital of St. Mary without Bishopsgate and called it a church in his charter. 48 The Prior of St. Mary held the advow- son till the Dissolution, when it came into the hands of the Crown. 49 In 1590 Queen Elizabeth granted it with Shalford rectory to her secretary Sir John Wolley. 50 His son and heir Sir Francis Wolley died holding the advowson in 1609.*' George Duncombe was dealing with it in 1650, Roger Duncombe in 1677, and George Duncombe in 1693." In 1765 George

��Duncombe sold it to Sir Fletcher Norton, whose son, William Lord Grantley, held it in 1808." It was acquired by Lord Ashcombe after the sale of the Grantley estates, and presented by him to Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Shamley Green was formed into a parish from Wonersh in 1 88 1 .** The living is in the gift of Lord Ashcombe.

Smith's charity is distributed as in CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. Mr. John Austen of Shalford left money for poor relief in 1620. Mr. Henry Chennell of Wonersh left land, the produce to be devoted to putting six poor boys to school, in 1672. Mr. Gwynne of London gave land and bank stock, in 1698, to put four poor boys to school and to distribute bread to fifteen poor persons every Sunday after service.

The charities are now (1908) being amalgamated under a scheme by the Charity Commissioners.

��4 7 Maitland, Braetan'i Note Bk. 9135 Cul. Pat. 1116-25, P- 497-

48 Chart. R. 33 Edw. I, no. 49.

49 Egerton MS. 2031, fol. 118; ibid. 2033, fol. 42 j ibid. 2034, fol. 176.

��60 Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. xvii.

81 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxlix, 74 ; ccciv, 60,

M Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1650 ; Mich. 29 Chat. II ; Hil. 4 & 5 Will, and Mary.

��53 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 113.

M Census 1891. Administrative and An- cient Co. i, 350.

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