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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��The second Lord Onslow built the house in 1731 from designs by Giacomo Leoni. The house is of red brick with stone dressings, and has the merits of its style, with large and lofty rooms and good orna- ment.

The second manor in West Clandon, represented originally by the manor of William de Braose, noticed above, is described under Bramley, of which it was part.

On 25 May 1530 Sir Richard Weston of Sutton had licence by charter to impark his land at Merrow and Clandon. The Clandon Park so formed, chiefly in Merrow, was disparked later. In 1 642 a later Sir Richard Weston, the agriculturist and canal projector, sold this land to Sir Richard Onslow, the recusant naturally giving place to the Parliamentarian, who inclosed the park again.

The church of ST. PETER AND ST. CHURCH PAUL has a chancel 24 ft. I in. by 1 8 ft. 5 in.,nave 50 ft. 8 in. by 23 ft. 4 in., north- east vestry, north tower 1 3 ft. 9 in. by 1 3 ft. 6 in. and south porch ; all these measurements are internal.

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��The church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, but of this building nothing is now left.

The earliest portion of the present structure is the nave, which dates from about 1 1 80 ; it is of its original size, but now only retains (of the date) the north and south doorways ; the chancel is a rebuilding of about the year 1200, and may have superseded a small apsidal chancel to the first building, or more probably the wooden chancel of the earlier Saxon building which may have been left standing after the nave was rebuilt in stone ; of this date a lancet window in the north wall remains ; the tower was probably added at the same period, but it has since been re-cased and much altered. Windows were inserted in the south wall of the chancel and in the two side walls of the nave about 1250, and the sedile in the chancel was put in at the same time. The east window of the chancel is the work of about 1330, three original lancets being destroyed to make room for it, and it is probable that the angle buttresses against this wall were work of the same period. The porch, although it has since been reconstructed, may contain timbers of 1 3th-century date. Much restoration of the windows has taken place, and the chancel arch has

��been considerably widened ; the vestry is a modern addition.

The east window it a mid- 14th-century one of three trefoiled ogee lights under a two-centred arch containing cusped net tracery ; it is of two chamfered orders and has a moulded label outside. The tracery has been almost wholly restored with clunch and the jambs partly, in Bath stone. To the north and south of it in the same wall are the remains of the original lancet windows. In the north wall is a complete original lancet modernized outside ; under it is a plain square recess with rebated edges, all of chalk ; it has the holes for the hinge staples and bolts, and another deep hole in its head. To the west of these are the modern doorway and archway to the vestry and organ chamber.

In the south wall are two ancient piscinae ; the eastern has a plain round head chamfered like the jambs and a half-round basin ; it is also set higher in the wall than the other, which is shallower and of a square shape with chamfered edges and a three- quarter round basin. Both basins have three groove* in the bottom radiating from the drain ; the sedile west of these is of mid- 13th-century date and has an engaged shaft in each jamb (between two hollow chamfers) with moulded base of three rounds and moulded bell capital with a scroll mould abacus ; the arch is of two hollow- chamfered orders and has a head and scroll mould label with mask stops. The first of the two south windows is a lancet, inserted or en- larged about the same time, whilst the other lancet in the same wall was also replaced by the present tre- foil headed light. The chancel arch is modern and is pointed.

The vestry has a two-light window in its north wall and a doorway to the east ; a modern arch opens into it from the tower through the east wall of the latter. The tower has its north angles strengthened by modern square buttresses and a vice rises in its south-west angle. The arch opening into it from the nave is of chalk in two chamfered orders without imposts in capitals ; the chamfers are finished with pyramidal stops a short distance above the floor. In the north wall of the tower is a modern window of three lights and tracery ; there was formerly a lancet in the east window, now removed for the vestry arch ; the stone portion of the tower has been heightened and recased in modern times and has a modern cornice over which is a timber bell-chamber with an octagonal spire. The north doorway of the nave has a round head of two chamfered orders continuous with the jambs ; they are now modernized outside in chalk with stone bases. The only window north of the nave is a 13th-century lancet either re-cut or modernized outside.

The first window in the south wall of the nave is of three ogee trefoiled lights with intersecting tracery and a two-centred arch with a moulded label ; the tracery is of modern stone and the label in chalk. On a keystone in the external arch is a curious shield carved with the arms of the Westons : a cheveron

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