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 REIGATE HUNDRED

��NUTFIELD

��the arch is double-chamfered on both sides and has no label.

The 13th-century north arcade of the nave is of three bays with circular pillars, water-moulded bases, and bell capitals ; there is no east respond, the arch dying on the east wall face, but on the north face of the return in the aisle is a short length of chamfered abacus which looks to be of earlier date than the arcade, and may have belonged to an arch opening to a former north transept. The west respond is half- round with a capital like those of the pillars, but the base is buried beneath the floor. The arches are two-centred and of two chamfered orders.

The south arcade is of three bays, and is all modern except the east arch and respond, which has chamfered edges and a moulded capital of 15th-century detail. The pillars are circular with moulded capitals and bases ; the eastern pillar having an attached shaft on its south side to receive the modern arch between the transept and aisle.

All the windows of the north aisle have been modernized outside ; the first and third on the north are of two lights, and the middle one of three lights, all with traceried pointed heads of I Jth- century style ; the inner jambs are old, as are also the rear arches, which are hollow-chamfered, and the west window has two lights of 14th- century character with old inner jambs and arch. A modern arch- way opens from the aisle into the organ chamber.

The south transept has a 15th-century east window of two cinque- foiled ogee-headed lights with old tracery in a pointed head ; the jambs are of two hollow cham- fers, and the window

has a moulded label outside. The south window of the transept has two lights under a geometrical traceried head ; the inner quoins are old, but the outer stonework is all modern. Under the window are two recesses each 6 ft. 3 in. long with four-centred arches, doubtless sepulchral, but now empty; the cham- fered jambs have broach stops at the base. On the outer face of the gable of the transept is a sundial dated 1758.

The south doorway is of the 1 5th century, moved out with the wall, and has moulded jambs and a two-centred arch. The two south windows of the aisle are square-headed, the first of three lights and the second of two ; the west window is of three lights under a traceried pointed head ; all three windows are modern.

The west tower is of three stories, but rises without a break. It is strengthened by diagonal buttresses at the western angles and has a stair-turret at its north-east corner. The arch opening into it from the nave has chamfered jambs and a two-centred arch of two hollow chamfers with a wide hollow between, and

��the west doorway is of two hollow-chamfered orders and has a four-centred head with a modern window of three lights over it. The second story is lighted on the north, south, and west by single trefoiled lights, and the third story by two-light windows with cinquefoiled four-centred heads. The diagonal but- tresses are faced with stone slabs bearing inscriptions, now partly hidden by the cement coating, referring to some late i6th or lyth-century repairs, 139 and the tower is tied by iron rods, on the straps of which is the date 1 740. Later repairs are shown by a small stone panel on the south side below the bell-chamber window bearing the date 1 786,and this date alsooccurs on several rain-water heads. Over the tower is a shingled wood spire changing from square to octagon above the parapet, and crowned by a weather vane with the date 1767. The tower is coated with cement, which has fallen away here and there, showing that the parapet and upper parts of the buttresses have been repaired with brickwork. The north wall of the aisle, in addition to its east diagonal buttress and the two at the western angle, has been strengthened

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��PLAN OF THE CHURCH OF ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL, NUTFIELD

��by raking buttresses of brick between the windows. The south porch is a modern one of wood. Owing to the slope of the ground there are several steps down from the south doorway to the floor level of the aisle.

The roof of the chancel is covered with Horsham (tone slabs and has a modern wood-panelled ceiling ; a moulded tie-beam across the middle appears to be old. The nave roof, also covered with Horsham slabs, is open timbered, a plaster ceiling having been removed ; two of its tie-beams are old. The north aisle has a gabled roof with collar-beam trusses, formerly plastered ; the timbers are old and plain, and the south aisle roof is modern. Both aisle roofs are tiled.

There is a good deal of interesting woodwork in the church.

In the chancel is a seat made up with two old bench-ends with carved poppy-heads, probably of early 16th-century date, and the i 5 th-century rood- screen still stands across the chancel arch. Its door- way has a two-centred pointed head with traceried

��189 Cracklow givrs the date a> 1594, on the north-west buttresses. 227

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