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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��William Moore, under the description of 'The mansion house and offices of the late Arthur Moore, Esq., dec d ., being a beautifull building from the design of the late Mr. Tollmen, consisting of many rooms on a floor, a large hall and staircase, painted by the late famous -Laguerre, with a saloon and gallery, and several other rooms finely painted by the same hand, particularly one wainscoted with japan, with Tartarian tapestry silk. Together with the gardens and park, containing by estimation about 100 acres, the whole being finely adorned with canalls, basins, statues, vases, iron gates, pallisades, etc., and laid out in the most elegant manner ; with three ponds, containing the space of six acres, in which are several clear and deep springs, which by large engines serve the canalls, basins, reservoirs, etc., and furnish the house with wdter convey'd in strong leaden pipes.' 87 It was purchased by Thomas Revell, agent victualler at Gibraltar and member for Dover in 1734, 1741, and I747, 88 and on his death in 1752 his immense wealth was inherited by his only daughter Jane, who married George Warren, of

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��Poynton, co. Chester, afterwards created K.B. 89 Their daughter and heir, Elizabeth Harriet, in 1777 married Viscount Bulkeley, 90 but in 1788 joined with her father in the sale of this estate to John Richard- son." Shortly after it was sold to Thomas Hankey, a London banker, whose great-grandson, Mr. John Barnard Hankey, holds it at the present day.

The church of ST. MARY consists CHURCH of a chancel z6 ft. by 13 ft. 6 in. at the east, and 1 3 ft. I o in. at the west, at which point it is flanked on the north by a transept 17 ft. 4 in. by 16 ft. 10 in., and on the south by a tower 12 ft. 10 in. by 10 ft. 2 in. ; a nave 33 ft. 7 in. by 20 ft., and north and south aisles jo ft. 2 in. wide. There is also a north-east vestry and a north porch. All the measurements are in- ternal.

The west wall and the upper part of the south and probably of the east wall of an early nave stil] remain, and belong perhaps to the beginning of the nth century, the walls being of plastered flint-work,

��with quoins and dressings of thin red bricks, no doubt Roman, set in wide mortar joints.

About 1 1 50-60 a south aisle was added to the nave, and towards the end of the same century the tower was built. The present chancel dates from the early years of the 1 3th century ; and the tran- sept seems contemporary with it. The north arcade of the nave is work of c. 1 300, of unusual character, but it seems probable that a north aisle was built before that date, perhaps when the transept was added. The tower has been much altered and rebuilt in the 1 7th and 1 8th centuries, and the south aisle became ruinous and was pulled down, not being rebuilt till 1872. The vestry and porch are modern, and a good deal of renewal of stonework has been carried out in modern times.

The east window of the chancel is of 1 5th-century date, with three pointed cinquefoiled lights under a two-centred arch, probably replacing an original triplet of lancets, but the two north windows of the 13th-century work remain, tall narrow lancets with an external rebate. Under the north-east window is a modern doorway to the ves- try, and to the east of it an original locker with rebated jambs and flat head, arranged for two doors, modern succes- sors of which are now fitted to it.

There is only one window on the south of the chancel, and this is modern with three wide cinquefoiled ogee lights under a square head ; below it are three sedilia in modern stonework of 1 3th-century design, with detached shafts having moulded capitals and bases and carrying two-centred arches.

Near the east end of the south wall is a piscina probably of 15th-century date with a. shallow rectangular basin. The flat head and part of the jambs are quite plain, but below a wooden shelf which has been inserted the jambs have been chamfered.

The north transept opens to the chancel by a two-centred arch of two continuous chamfered orders with a chamfered abacus at the springing, and is lighted on the north by a pretty window of two- trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil over, c. 1320. In the east wall are two lancet windows like those in the north wall of the chancel, and between them a wide arched recess with chamfered jambs and dog- tooth ornament on the angles, marking the position. of the altar formerly here.

In the north wall, east of the window, is an aumbry with rebated jambs and a wooden lintel, which was originally taller than at present, and at the south- east of the transept is a piscina which has stop-chamfered jambs and a triangular head with an old wooden shelf at the springing. The basin is very shallow, square at one end and semicircular at the other.

The arch opening to the aisle from the transept is quite plain and has been modernized.

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��8 ? Notei and Queriei (Scr. 4), ix, 307. 88 Braylejf, Hist. ofSurr. iv, 414.

��89 Gent. Mag. 1751, p. 44.

90 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, ii, 74.

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��sl Brayley, Surr. iv, 414.

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