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��the jambs outside have been partly restored with cement.

The south doorway appears to have been renewed in chalk, and has a pointed head and jambs of a single chamfered order. The west window is of two tre- foiled lights with a quatrefoil over in the pointed head, and is entirely modern. Below it is a blocked late 16th-century doorway of two chamfered orders in red brick with a four-centred arch.

In the north aisle is a small 1 3th-century piscina next to the respond with a mutilated round basin. The east window of the aisle is all modern except its inner jambs, which are of chalk ; it has two trefoiled lights under a pointed head inclosing a quatrefoil. On the north side are a doorway and a square window of two lights, and at the west a doorway into the vestry, which is lighted by a north window of two lights and a single west light.

The walling of the nave is of flint and stone, some of the flints in the south wall being set more or less in herringbone fashion, and the masonry has a very early look about it ; this wall has been strengthened by modern buttresses of brick and flint. The chancel walls are also of unbroken flints, and have similar modern buttresses.

The roofs of the chancel and nave are gabled and have open collar trussed rafters, which were formerly plastered on the under side. The aisle has a modern lean-to roof. Above the west end of the nave is a square wood bell-turret supported on posts from the floor of the nave ; the posts against the west wall are old, but the eastern pair are modern ; the turret is covered with oak shingles and is crowned by a four- sided spire, also shingled.

The altar table is a modern one of oak. The altar rails, date from the last half of the I7th century and have turned balusters of good section flanked by

��scrolled brackets. A modern desk in the chancel also contains some pieces of 17th-century carving of a honeysuckle pattern. The pulpit is modern. The font dates from the i8th century and is of stone, with a small cup-shaped bowl on a turned baluster stem.

There are three bells : the treble is a pre-Reformation bell from the Reading foundry, c. 1500, inscribed 'Sancte Toma or' ; the second is by Eldridge, 1679, and the tenor by R. Phelps, 1737.

The communion plate includes an Elizabethan cup and cover paten of I 569, also a cup of 1 66 1 ; a paten of 1776, a standing paten of 1675, of which it is pos- sible that the foot is older than the top, and an electro- plated paten of 1883.

The earliest book of the registers contains baptisms from 1558 to 1707, marriages to 1690, and burials to 1711 ; the second continues the baptisms to 1 754 and marriages and burials to 1787 ; the third has all three from 1788 to 1812. There is also a vestry book from 1591.

The church of East Clandon, ADVQWSQN which is mentioned at the time of Domesday, was, like the manor, held by Chertsey Abbey until the Dissolution. 10 Henry VIII granted it to Sir Anthony Browne with the manor, with which it has descended ever since.

Smith's Charity is distributed as in CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. Greethurst's Charity, consisting of 20, was sup- posed to have been left by a person of the name resi- dent in East Clandon, the name occurring in the registers. The interest was given to the poor.

A convalescent home for children suffering from hip disease, called 'Welcome,' was founded in 1902. It is in connexion with the Alexandra Hospital, London.

��WEST CLANDON

��Clandun (xi cent.) ; Clandon Regis (xiv cent.).

West Clandon is a small parish 4 miles east-by- north of Guildford. It is bounded on the north by Send and Ripley, on the east by East Clandon, on the south by Albury, on the west by Merrow. It measures 2 miles from north to south and rather over half a mile from east to west. It contains 1,003 seres.

The parish meets Albury on the top of the chalk down, and extends over the northern slope of the chalk, across the Thanet and Woolwich Beds, on to the London Clay. The church and village, according to the usual rule, lie just below the chalk, or on its extreme boundary. The village is scattered along a road from north to south with many picturesque old cottages. Clandon Downs, on the chalk, are still partly open common. The Guildford and Epsom road runs through Clandon. It was made a turnpike road in 1758,' and diverted in places out of the narrow ravine into which, as usual, the old unmade road was worn down. The old line can be seen in places in this and the neighbouring parishes by the side of the modern road.

Clandon station, on the Guildford and Cobham

��line, opened in 1885, is at the north end of the village street, and the line passes through the parish.

The old maps mark ' Common Fields ' on the chalk downs. The only inclosures, however, recorded are of the Park (see below).

The Woking Water Works are in West Clandon parish. They draw water from the chalk, and supply not only Woking but the two Clandons, the two Horsleys, part of Merrow, Send, and part of Worplesdon. The works have seriously diminished the flow of springs on both sides of the chalk range.

At the time of

MANORS the Domesday Survey (TEST CL4NDON was held of Ed- ward of Salisbury by a certain Hugh ; Fulcui had held it in the time of the Confessor.*

The later mentions of the overlordship represent it as belonging to the family of Giffard of Brimsfield.*

���GITTABD of Brimi- field. Gules three liont faisant argent.

��*>Wykcham't Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), i, 138.

��1 Stat. 31 Geo. II, cap. 77. V.C.H. Surr. i, 3253.

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��lan Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill, pt. ii
 * >.), no. 75 ; ibid. (Ser. 2], ii, 10.

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