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��Inside the tower is an early 17th-century pulpit, with ornamental arched and square panels, but spoilt by being grained and varnished. Amongst other slabs on the floor is one to Margaret Craydon, 1690.

There is an old print in the vestry of the new church which shows the original building to have been a small, plain structure. There was a 15th- century south window with a flat head to the chancel, and there was a south porch.

The new church of ST. MART is built not far to the north of the old one, and dates from 1848. It is in 14th-century style, and consists of a chancel with a south vestry, nave of five bays, north aisle which is extended eastwards, and has a north organ-chamber and quire-vestry, and at the west end of the aisle is a tower ; there is also a south aisle with a south porch, and a new porch lately buih at the west end of the nave.

The material throughout is grey stone with ashlar dressings and the roofs are tiled.

There are several fittings inside which came from the old church. The altar is a Jacobean wood table, dated 1612, and has large carved legs, and the chancel- screen is of late 15th-century date with cinquefoiled, ogee-headed lights, and a moulded cornice with leaf cresting. The solid panelling at the base has been pulled out, and modern pierced work substituted.

The font is also 15th-century work from the old church. It is octagonal, each side of the bowl having quatrefoiled panels inclosing square leaf ornaments, and there are similar ornaments on the moulded base of the bowl, while the stem has narrow, trefoiled panels on each side.

In the chancel are several mural monuments from the old church, the most important being a large one to Sir William Lewen, who died in 1721. On the same tablet his nephew Charles and his wife Susannah are commemorated. Below is a recumbent figure of Sir William.

At the west end of the south aisle are several old brasses on stone slabs, placed on the walls. The first on the south wall has the following inscription in black letter : ' Pray for me lady Jane Iwarby sutyme wife of S r John Iwarby of Ewell Knyght dought' of Johfi Agmondeshm sutyme of ledered in Surrey sqer which Jane dyed the viii day of May in y e yere of oure lord m'v c xix of home Jhu have m'ci.' Above is her figure kneeling in prayer, with a kennel head-dress and a heraldic mantle with the arms of Agmondesham. On one side of her is a scroll bearing the words ' lady helpe me and you ' ; the scroll on the opposite side is missing. Above are two shields, the first bearing the arms : Quarterly (l) Argent a cheveron azure be- tween three boars' heads sable with five cinquefoils or upon the cheveron (Agmondesham) ; (2) Party with a lion countercoloured ; (3) A cheveron with three millrind crosses thereon ; (4) A cheveron be- tween three martlets with five cinquefoils on the cheveron.

The other shield has Agmondesham impaling the second coat.

The next brass has the black letter inscription :
 * Hie jacet Margeria Treglistan nup' censors Johannis

Octobris Anno Domini m'Vxxi" cujus anime propicie- tur deus Amen.' Above is a figure of a lady wearing a long, loose head-dress and gown with fur cuffs.
 * Treghistan que quidem Margeria obiit xxiii die |

On the west wall is the following brass black-letter

��inscription : ' Of your charite pray for the soule of Edmond dows gentilmS oon of the clerkf of the signett with Kyng harry the vii whiche decessed the xiiii day of May the yere of our lord god m'ccccc and x on whose soule Jhu have mercy Amen.'

On the return wall of the north side of the aisle is a large stone slab on which are several brasses. Near the centre is an inscription in black letter as follows : ' Here lyeth the lady dorothe Taylare widow and Edmonde | Horde her seconde sonne the which Edmond deceassed the 29 day of October A 1575, and she beinge ye dawghter of Thomas Roberdf of Wylesdon in Mydellsexe Esquyre late the wyffe of Syr Lawrence Taylare of doddington in ye countye of Huntington Knyght and before wyffe unto Allen Horde of ye myddle Temple esquire and bencher ther, ye yeres of her age was Ixx and deceased ye xi' of Maye A 1577.' Above is her figure with her five sons and five daughters, with their names above them : Thomas, Edmond, Alyn, William, and John, and Ketheren, Elizabeth, Mary, Dorothe, and Ursula. All the children are named Horde. Near the top of the slab are two shields, both bearing the same arms : three pheons, and in chief a greyhound collared (Roberts). Near the bottom of the slab are the figures of a man and his wife. Beside the man are three boys, with their names, Arthur, Alyn, and Edmond, and the initial ' f) ' after each ; and by the woman is an indent of three girls, with part of the name-plate over. When complete the three names were Dorothe, Elizabeth, and Anne. Between the man and the woman is a shield : Quarterly (l and 4) Argent on a chief or a raven sable ; (2) Gules a cheveron between three leopards' heads or with three molets sable on the cheveron (Perrell) ; (3) Azure a lion with a forked tail or (Stapylton) ; over all a fleur de lis for difference.

A brass, now lost, of which a rubbing is preserved in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries, was inscribed : ' Hie jacet Johes Tabard et Johanna ux9 e'fl q aiab} fpicief dt.9 ame9.'

There is a ring of eight bells in the tower, the treble and second being by Mears & Stainbank, 1890. The third and fifth are dated 1767, and, together with the fourth, which is probably of the same date, are by Lester and Pack. The sixth is by T. Mears, 1 767, and the seventh and eighth are re-casts from old ones, by Mean and Stainbank, 1890. All the old bells came from the tower of the old church.

The oldest piece of plate is a standing paten of 1764. All the rest, consisting of two chalices, two patens, three standing patens, a flagon, and a spoon, date from 1 844.

There are four books of registers, the first contain- ing baptisms, marriages, and burials, from 1604 to 1641. There is one baptism of 1597 and one of 1600, and between 1604 and 1608 there is a gap. There are also a few Kingswood marriages and bap- tisms for 1638. The second book contains baptisms and burials from 1669 to 1723, and marriages from 1697 to 1723. The third book has all three entries from 1723, the marriages to 1754, and the other entries to 1812. The marriages are continued on printed forms in the fourth book from 1754 to 1812.

The parish church of ST. ANDREW, KINGS- WQQD, is a building of flint and stone, built in 1848-52, in the 14th-century style, by Mr. Thomas

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