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��under a round arch on twisted shafts with volute capi- tals ; the spandrels are filled with foliage, and there are bands of foliage around the top and bottom edges. In each bay is the seated figure of a saint, each fourth figure repeating. Three out of each four have books, but there is no distinctive feature to show whom they are intended to represent. In two places on the top are the attachments for the staples of the cover. The font stands on a modern stone base at the south-west of the nave. Opposite to it is a desk made up of I yth and 18th-century carved woodwork, on which is a large chained Bible ; the chain is an old one brought from Salisbury Cathedral, but the Bible dates only from 1795, having been given to the church in 1803. All other fittings of the church are modern, except that in the south-east window of the nave are some fragments of old glass, including a seated figure of St. Augustine in late 1 5th-century white and gold glass. The rest is chiefly I 7th- and 1 8th-century work, and is said to have been dug up when the excavations were made for the new north aisle. There is a shield: Argent a saltire sable, on which is an escutcheon Argent a cheveron between three voided lozenges sable ; a crescent for difference. A second has Party cheveronwise azure and gules three covered salts argent, the arms of the Sailers' Company ; and a third, Azure a cheveron ermine between three scallops argent im- paling a doubtful shield. There are small panels with the Creation, the Last Judgement, the Works of Mercy, and part of the story of the Prodigal Son. In the south-west window of the nave is a shield bearing the arms of Dacres: Argent a cheveron sable between three roundels gules, each charged with a scallop argent.

��WALTON-ON- THE-HILL

There are three bells, the treble by William EUridge 1 68 1, the second blank, and the tenor by Robert Mott 1591.

The communion plate includes a cup of 1568, a standing paten of 1905, two plated salvers, and a copper-plated flagon.

The first book of the registers contains baptisms from 1581 (a parchment copy of 1618), but the first four pages and some of the entries for 1585 have been cut out; they end in 1702. The marriages and burials begin in 1631 and run to 1701.

The second book' contains mixed entries from 1700 to 1754, and thence baptisms and burials to 1802 ; there is a hiatus from 1743 46, when no entries were recorded; the third book has marriages from 1754 to 1812, and the fourth baptisms and burials from 1804 to 1812.

Walton Church is said to have ADVOWSOK been founded by John de Walton in the first half of the 1 3th century," and the right of presentation has always belonged to the lord of the manor until the latter part of the 1 9th century. 60 In 1880 the advowson came into the possession of the Rev. H. J. Greenhill, who is the patron at the present day.

In the Taxation of Pope Nicholas Walton Church wasratedat 13 61. 8</. 61 In 1428, when the church paid a subsidy of l 6s. %d. to the king, the yearly value was the same. 6 * Under Henry VIII the living was estimated to be worth 12 6s. $\d., including a house with 30 acres of land. 63

Smith's Charity is distributed as in, c ,

other Surrey parishes.

��69 Inscription in Walton-on-the-Hill Church, but the inscription is of no authority.


 * Chan. Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. I, no. 23 ;

��15 Hen. VI, no. 27; Index Winton Epis. Reg. Egerton MS. 2031-4, &c.; Inst. Bks. P.R.O. ; Clergy Liits, &c.

��61 Pope Nick. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 208.

M Feud. Aids, v, 114.

M V&lor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 37.

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