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��runs round the south wall as far as the vestry, break- ing up to form labels over a trefoiled piscina and a single chamfered sedile, both being modern. Above is a single trefoiled window in new stone. The arcade to the chapel is of three bays with pointed arches of two chamfered orders with hollow labels, and has been reworked and in part rebuilt. The pillars are round, with moulded capitals and bases. In the east wall of the chapel are three 13th-century lancets with chamfered rear arches, and in the north wall three similar lancets, but with external rebates. At the west end of the north wall is a small modern porch over a doorway which has a pointed arch of two orders with a label, the inner order having a raised zigzag moulding. The outer order has jamb-shafts with foliate capitals and shafts, one capital and per- haps a little of the label being late 12th-century work, but all the rest is modern or reworked. It is clearly not in its original position. In the west wall of the chapel is a lancet with an external rebate like those on the north.

There is no chancel arch. On the south side the nave wall sets back a few inches at the east, but a few feet down the nave regains its original I zth-century thickness, though setting back here and on the north side a little below the windows. Of these there are three in the north and south walls, short and narrow round-headed lights set high in the wall. They date from the beginning of the I2th century, but have been a good deal repaired. The south wall has at the east a late 15th-century square-headed win- dow of three trefoiled lights, inserted to light an altar, and the south door is in modern 13th-century style. There is a blocked round-headed west doorway show- ing internally only, and above it a modern three-light window of 14th-century style.

The organ chamber on the south side of the chancel has an arcade of one sub-divided bay. In the south wall are two modern lancets ; the vestry adjoining it has an outer doorway, a modern lancet opening from the chancel, and another on the external wall. The chancel and north chapel roofs are modern, but that of the nave is old, with canted sides, boarded, and with simple beaded fillets, perhaps of 1 7th-century date. The font at the west of the nave is modern, in I 3th-century style ; and the fittings are all modern except the altar table, which has some carving appar- ently of 18th-century date.

There are three bells ; two bear the inscription ' William Eldridge made mee, 1 674 ' ; the third

��was recast by Mears and Stainbank in 1880, but was probably originally of the same date as the others.

The plate consists of a silver cup, with cover paten, a plate, and a flagon, all with the London hall-mark of 1 736. They are inscribed, ' The gift of the Countess of Dongall and the Earl her son.' There is a brass almsdish presented in 1880 by Miss M. A. Roe.

The Registers date from 1599.

At Forest Green, a common with scattered houses about it, in this district, 3 miles to the south, for- merly an outlying part of Ockley, is a small church consisting of a nave and chancel, in brick with, stone dressings, built by Mr. Ernest Hensley, of Sprats- ham on the borders of Wotton and Abinger, in 1897, in memory of his son who died by an accident.

There is no mention in Domes- 4DPOWSONS day Book of a church in Abinger ; no record of it has been found until a presentation by Adam de Gurdon at some date between 1282 and I3O4. 95 In the I4th century the church appears as the parish church of Abinger alias the parish church of Paddington ; " and the fact that it served the spiritual needs of both manors probably accounts for alternate presentation by either lord. Accordingly, between 1305 and 1316, Thomas de Jarpenvill presented to the church ; 9S and about the same time his son Roger occasioned grave scandal by laying violent hands upon the rector. The next pre- sentation was made by one Henry de Somerburie ; the living, however, once more fell vacant before 1316, and presentation was then made by Roger de Jarpenvill. 96 It is possible that the more intricate succession to the manor of Paddington may account for the tenants' apparent carelessness in taking their turn at nominating ; at any rate, the next presenta- tion was again made by a member of the Jarpenvill family. Some time before 1366 Thomas de Syndle- sham, the Paddington tenant, took advantage of his turn, and shortly afterwards Thomas de Jarpenvill presented. 97 About this date we find a pronounce- ment of the union of the two halves, 98 and from that time the advowson, with an occasional variation, remained in the hands of the lords of Abinger, and is now in the gift of Mr. Evelyn. The exceptions to be noted are a presentation by the Crown in 1638 ; by one Henry Herbert in 1683 ; and by Joseph OfHey in 1685."

Smith's Charity is distributed as in

��CHAR11T

��other Surrey parishes.

��CAPEL

��The parish of Capel is bounded on the north by Dorking, of which it was formerly a part, on the east by Leigh and Newdigate, on the south by the county of Sussex, on the west by Wotton and Ockley. A part of Capel lying across the north of Ockley sepa- rates that parish from Dorking. The body of Capel parish is 4 miles from north to south and \\ miles east to west, but this projecting tongue makes the breadth at the north end 3 miles. It contains 5,680 acres of land and 1 5 of water. The soil of

��93 Egcrton MS. 2031, fol. i.

94 De Banco R. 574, m. 379 d.

��the greater part is Wealden Clay, but the north-west part abuts upon the high Green Sands of Leith Hill and Coldharbour Common, rising to 900 ft. above the sea. In this part of the parish there was a land- slip in the reign of Elizabeth, recorded by Camden and Aubrey, when the sand slipped upon the under- lying clay and made a precipitous scar in the side of the hill, even now visible for many miles from the southward. The place was called Constable's Mosses ; Constable resided at a farm still called Mosses. The

��Ibid. m. 46.

96 Egerton MS. 2033, fol. I.

'34

��"7 Ibid. 98 Ibid.

��99 Inst. Bk. (P.R.O.).

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