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��merchant of London, son of his elder brother Samuel. Thomas Lambert died in 1704, and his son, John Lambert, sold Garratts to his cousin, John Ludlow, whose son Lambert Ludlow died without issue, leaving three sisters and co-heirs. These ladies con- veyed to Isaac Hughes of London, merchant, who married a Buckle of Burgh, and left a son John. The estate passed shortly afterwards to the Ladbrokes, and then to the Clowes, from whom it was bought back by Thomas Lambert of Banstead (see Perrotts) about 1850. He gave the property to his brother, John Lambert, an active magistrate and great bene- factor to the parish, who left one son, Wilmot Lam- bert, after whose death his trustees sold it to the late Mr. F. Lambert. His son, Colonel F. A. H. Lambert, is the present owner. The house has a handsome Queen Anne staircase and some Jacobean panelling. In the chapel is a 15th-century triptych, an ancient crucifix, and some pictures. The house is occupied by Mrs. Davies, and used for a girls' school.

BANSTEAD PLACE (formerly Carpenters) was an estate of the Wilmots early in the I yth century. It passed through an heiress to Elizabeth wife of Gabriel Bestman, and afterwards to her niece, Hannah Wilmot, who married Sir Samuel Prime, a well- known lawyer in the reign of George III. The property passed later to the Westons, and then to John Motteux, of Beachamwell and Sandringham, co. Norfolk, whose trustees sold it to W. S. H. Fitz Roy, from whom it was acquired by John Lambert of Garratts Hall. Is is now the property of the Hon. Mr. Justice Neville.

The WELL HOUSE was a farm which came into the possession of the Lambert family through the marriage of Mary, daughter and co-heir of John Wilmot, with Sir Daniel Lambert. The latter built the present dining and drawing-room, leaving the old house, an early 1 6th-century building, practically in- tact. It is now the residence of the Hon. Mrs. Arthur.

NEWLANDS belonged in the 1 7th century to the family of Harris, who were connected with Winches- ter. Richard Harris, M.D., of Newlands, married a sister of Sir Edward Bysshe, of Smallfield Place, in

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��Burstow, and left a son, Thomas Harris, a secondary of the Court of Exchequer, who married Anne, sister of Sir Timothy Thornhill, bart., and widow of John Wilmot. He died in 1727, and his son John twenty years later. The property subsequently came into the possession of the Aubertins, a Huguenot family, one of whom, the Rev. Peter Aubertin, rector of Chipstead, married a daughter of Mr. Lambert of Banstead. His son, Peter Aubertin, also rector of Chipstead, sold Newlands to Mr. Nisbet Robertson, whose widow is the present owner.

ALL SAINTS' church is a fine build- CHURCHES ing consisting of a chancel 33 ft. 7 in. by 1 3 ft. 4 in. with a north chapel z l ft. 6 in. by 1 3 ft. and a south chapel z i ft. by 1 3 ft. zin., a nave 37ft. loin, by i6ft. Sin. with a north aisle 10 ft. 9 in. wide and a south aisle 1 1 ft. z in. wide, a west tower 14 ft. 4 in. by 14 ft., and to the north of it a vestry. The north and south entrances have porches. The church has been over-restored, but is still of very great interest, the nave and chancel arcades being of a very uncommon type. The nave, as usual, probably retains the plan of a building considerably earlier than any detail now existing, the great height and comparative thinness of its walls suggesting a possible pre-Conquest origin. The arches of the nave arcades and the west arch of the north chapel show distinctive late 12th-century tooling, and are the oldest features to which a date can now be given, and the church must have been brought to its present plan, except as regards the aisles and north-west vestry, somewhere between the years 1 190 and 1220. The north aisle seems to have been widened in the 1 5th century, the south aisle has been rebuilt in modern times, and the vestry is also modern. The south chapel was rebuilt in 1837, and brought to its present form in 1868, and both porches are modern. Cracklow mentions that the chancel was repaired in 1631, and the church beautified by subscription in 1716, and again repaired at a later date.

An old cork model of the church in the vestry shows a 1 3th-century lancet and a 1 5th-century three-light window in the n rth wall of the north

chapel, and the east and south chancel win- dows as of 15th-cen- tury date with three cinquefoiled lights.

At present there are three modern lan- cets in the east wall of the chancel, two in the north wall, partly old, and shown in Cracklow's drawing, and two entirely mo- dern in the south wall. The arcade between the chancel and north chapel is of two bays with a very interest- ing and unusual octa- gonal central column, the faces of which are sunk and hollowed al- ternately, leaving fillets about an inch wide on either side of

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