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��succeeded by Sir Timothy Shelley, whose eldest son, Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, was drowned in 1822. Sir Timothy, at his death in 1844, was therefore suc- ceeded by his grandson, Sir Percy Florence Shelley. 110 HOLILOND. The family of atte Holilond was settled in Nutfield in the early 1 3th century. In an inquiry concerning their lands, made in the reign of Edward III, it was stated that during the reign of King , John Denise de Monchensey '" had alienated to Regi- . nald de Holilond a messuage, 42 acres of land, 8 acres of meadow, 10 of pasture and I of wood in Nutfield, parcel of the manor of Nutfield, to hold to him and his heirs at the rent of the true value. 1 " This alienation was made in 1202-3, the charter being en- rolled ' in a certain missal ' of Battle Abbey, the abbot i of which, Richard atte Holilond, was brother to Reginald." 1 The property was afterwards held by Robert son of Reginald, and John son of Robert." 4 Johnatte Holilond in 1349 obtained a pardon from the Crown for having entered into thesaid premises without licence from the king ; both his father and grandfather had been similarly in fault. 1 * 5 The name of Thomas atte Holilond appears as witness to a deed in 1359,'* and in 1400 John atte Holilond held land in Nut- field. 1 "

The subsequent ownership of these lands is not ap- parent, but they clearly had given their name to the family which held them so long, and the present Hol- land House, or Hall Land House, in Nutfield is the survival of the name.

The church of ST. PETER and ST. CHURCH PAUL stands on a site with a steep northerly slope, close to the road, in a very pretty and well-planted churchyard, and some way below the crest of the ridge on which the village is built. It consists of a chancel 36 ft. 4 in. long by 1 7 ft 4 in. wide, north vestry and organ chamber, nave 40 ft. z in. by 22 ft. 3 in., north aisle 12 ft. 9 in. wide, south transept loft. 3 in. deep by 14 ft. 1 1 in wide, south aisle 1 5 ft. 5 in. wide, south porch and a west tower 1 4 ft. I in. by 13 ft. wide. All these dimensions are taken within the walls.

The plan of the nave doubtless dates from the 1 2th century, but the oldest architectural details are to be found in the chancel, which inclines southward from the axis of the nave, and seems to have replaced the 12th-century chancel early in the I3th century. It was about 26 ft. long originally, but was lengthened 10 ft. early in the 1 4th century.

A north aisle was added to the nave about 1230 ; the arcade still remains, but the aisle walls have been removed at a widening of the aisle in the 1 5th century. The chancel arch was widened to its utmost limits early in the 141(1 century. A south transept was added in the I 5th century, about 1450, and the west tower is the work of the latter half of the same century. The south aisle was built in 1882, and the north vestry and organ chamber are also modern. The tower has been repaired at different times, the upper part being much rebuilt late in the 1 8th cen- tury ; in recent years a great deal of restoration work

��has been undertaken, with the result that nearly all the window tracery has been renewed.

The east window of the chancel has three cinque- foiled lights with tracery under a pointed head of I 5th- century style, but all of modern stonework. The north-east window is of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefbil in the head under a two-centred arch, but only the inner jambs and hollow-chamfered rear arch are old. Just west of the window is a straight joint in the wall, which has been stripped of it plaster, marking the line of the east wall of the 13th- century chancel. In the 13th-century walling is one complete lancet, tall and narrow, with a plain chamfer on the outer face, now looking into the vestry, and close to it on the west the head of a second lancet of dif- ferent detail, with an external rebate, and perhaps of earlier date. It is evident that the complete lancet was the eastern one of a pair, the springing of the rear arch of the second window being yet visible, but the window head just noticed is too near it to allow for a splay of equal angle, which would be natural in a pair of contemporary windows, and has either been moved eastward at the insertion of the modern arch to the organ chamber, or belongs to an older arrangement. As at present set, it is accurately half-way between the chancel arch and the east wall of the 1 3th-century chancel, a fact which suggests that it is in position, and that the complete lancet is a slightly later addition. This is also possible from the way in which the sill of the complete lancet breaks into the head of a recess in the sill below, which though now much altered was originally a locker with two arched openings, the east- ern of which is now represented by it sill only, while the western has lost its inner order and is masked by a modern memorial brass hinged to serve as a door to it. Two cinquefoiled arches, one large and one small, open into the modern vestry and organ chamber.

Only the lower part of the 13th-century south wall of the chancel remains, the upper part having been rebuilt when the chancel was lengthened, with three windows, two of a single trefoiled light and one at the south-east of two cinquefoiled lights. Only the east jamb of the western of the two trefoiled lights is left, the window having given place to a two-light 15th-century window, but both the other windows preserve their old jambs and rear arches, the external masonry being modern. Below the south-east window is a 15th-century piscina with a shallow half-round basin in the sill and a shelf. Below the middle window is a 14th-century tomb recess with jambs of two chamfered orders, broach stopped, with a two-centred arch, dying on the chamfer of the jambs ; in the recess is a contemporary slab with a floriated cross in low relief, and on its hollowed edge a partly destroyed inscription : 'SIRE THOM[AS DE R]OLEHAM GIST ici DEU DE SA ALMK

EYT MERCI." 1 *

The chancel arch is a 14th-century insertion, having half-octagonal jambs with broach stops at the base, and moulded bell capitals with scroll-moulded abaci ;

��150 Brayley, Hiit. of Surr. iv, 332.

UI It seems quite impossible that this can be the Denise, Anestie's daughter who died in 1304. It can scarcely have been her mother, Denise, wife of Hubert de Anestie. It is very difficult to account for, as it seems to connect the Monchen-

��seys with Nutfield before the marriage of Denise with Warin de Monchensey. Perhaps the inquisition is wrong in its dates, but Richard was abbot 1215-35.

1M Cat. Pat. 1348-50, p. 288; Inq. a.q.d. file 288, no. 3.

1M Chan. Inq. p.m. z Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 4.

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��134 Ibid. ; Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 24 Edw. I.

1K Cat. Pat. 1348-50, p. tit; Aktrtv. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com), ii, 204.

IM Add. Chart. 23615.

W Feet of F. Surr. 2 Hen. IV, no. II.

118 The complete inscription is given in Manning and Bray, op. cit.

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