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�� ��design. The inside jambs, however, appear to be old in each case. Below the sill of the eastern of these windows is a small splayed recess in the wall with a square head and remains of colour on the jambs, and on the outer face of the wall below the second window are a few stones of what seems to be the east jamb of a destroyed doorway. The existing south doorway is of late 15th-century character, with moulded jambs and four-centred arch under a square head with a heavy moulded label. The modern porch has quatrefoiled side lights and a south entrance with moulded jambs and two-centred arch.

The tower rises one stage above the ridge of the nave roof, this stage being now mostly of brick, only a few of the old stone quoins remaining. One of the 1 3th-century lancets, however, still remains in the west face above the roof line, and the jambs of another in the same face and of one window in each of the other three sides of the tower may still be seen on the inside, though they are now blocked up. The top stage has a modern window in each face consisting of two trefoiled lights under a square head, and is furnished with a modern stone parapet. The date 1653 is shown on the west parapet of the tower in Manning and Bray's illustration.

The walls of the north aisle and west front are of flint with stone dressings, and the main body of the other walls is also faced with flint, but in the older work the mortar joints are larger. All the roofs are modern and are covered with tiles.

Across the east arch of the tower is set a good 15th-century screen, with three cinquefoiled lights on each side of the central opening, and a moulded cornice on which is fixed an 18th-century carved wooden achievement of the royal arms of England.

The pulpit and reading desk are of late 1 6th-cen- tury date and have moulded panels, and ornamental pilasters and rails and a dentil cornice.

The font is of 14th-century date and has a large octagonal bowl, each side having a shallow sunk panel filled with tracery patterns, all different. It stands on a circular stem with moulded base.

In the south windows of the south transept are some small pieces of late 1 3th-century glass with figures of St. Peter and St. Paul, and in the east window of the chancel some fragments of 15th-century glass, among modern imitations.

There are also some old quarries in the windows of the south aisle.

On the north wall of the chancel is a small tablet to ' Christopher Shawe Citizen of London embro- dorer,' who died in 1618.

In the churchyard, near the porch, is a coffin slab with a double hollow-chamfered edge, and on the top are traces of a raised cross, now almost defaced. Out- side the east end of the south aisle are two fragments of another large coffin slab on which was a raised flowered cross with a stepped base.

The tower contains a ring of five bells : the treble and second by John Hodson, 1658 ; the third by

��William Mears, 1785; and the fourth and tenor by Robert Eldridge, 1607 and 1595.

The plate comprises a cup of 1664, with a stand paten of 1714, and a silver mounted flagon.

There are six books of registers, the first containing baptisms from 1656 to 1804, the second marriages from 1663 to 1754, the third burials from 1656 to 1 804, the fourth baptisms from 1 804 to 1812, the fifth marriages from 1805 to 1811, and the sixth burials from 1805 to 1812.

The churchyard is large and contains several elm trees, and a large yew on the north side. There is an entrance on the west side with a lych-gate.

The advowson of the church of ADVOWSQN Chipstead has generally followed the descent of the manor. Towards the end of the I3th century Ralph de Monthermer, who had married Joan widow of Gilbert the Red, and in her right was called Earl of Gloucester, presented to

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��Chipstead Church. 81 At the beginning of the follow- ing century it was in the gift of Hugh de Audley, Earl of Gloucester, 8 * through his marriage with Margaret de Clare, and from their daughter Margaret the right de- scended with the manor to the Earls of Stafford. 84 In 1402 it seems to have been leased to John Norton and his wife Joan, and in the following year to John Frem- ingham. 85 In 1422 it was mentioned amongst the right and possessions of Sir Hugh Stafford. 86

Sir John Bourchier presented in I 519," John Ledes and Agnes his wife in 1552. M In 1558 Thomas Matson conveyed the advowson in mortgage to Thomas Copley, 8 * in the next year selling it to William Frank. 80 It was then held in turn by the Sackvilles " and by William and John Poyntz. Edward Scott presented in 1571, Lord St. John and Winifred his wife in 1573, and Lord Dacre in 1586. The advowson was conveyed in 1613 to John Huntley. After the resale of the property in 1615 the right of presentation no longer belonged to the lord of the manor. In 1658 it was owned by George Moore," and in 1664 was still held by his wife Margaret, then a widow." The Crown presented in 1678, and Thomas Middleton in 1740. Anthony Nott had the advowson in 1747 and 1753. William Jolliffe bought it about 1790 and his descendant Lord Hylton now holds it. Anne Aubertin pre- sented in 1808 by agreement with Col. Hylton Jolliffe. 95

��81 Index Winton Epit. Reg. Egerton MSS. 2031-4, i, foL 61, 62; G.E.C. Peerage, Gloucester.

88 Ibid. ; Index Winton Epi. Reg. Egerton MSS. 2031-4, ii, fol. 46, 47.

84 Ibid. ; ftyke/iam't Reg. i, 232 ; Cal. Pat. 1467-77, p. 543.

85 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 4 Hen. IV, 65 ; Wykebam't Reg. i, 241.

��88 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Hen. VI, n.

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87 Winton Epit. Reg. Fox, iv, fol. 3*.

88 See Chipstead Manor, and Winton Epit. Reg. Poynet, fol. 40.

" Feet of F. Surr. Eatt. 4 & 5 Phil, and Maiy. 90 Ibid. Hil. I Eliz. " Ibid. Trin. 13 Eliz.

��M Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. rvi, m. 36 ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1 1 Jat. I.

beth MSS. Cert. vol. 21, fol. 5.
 * Parl. Surv. of Surr. Livings, Lam-

Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 1652; Recov. R. Trin. 16 Chas. II, rot. 135.

95 Intt. Bki. (P.R.O.), and informa- tion tupplied by Lord Hylton.

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