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��EAST HORSLEY

��between three lions' heads, the whole very rudely carved.

In the east jamb is a piscina of late 1 2th-century date ; it is the square head of a former pillar piscina beautifully carved with leaf ornament ; a rudely pointed arch is cutout of the jamb over. The south doorway is similar to the north doorway and has an old arch with a moulded label, but modern jambs outside. East of it is a portion of a 14th-century holy-water stoup under a pointed head ; the front half of the basin has been cut away. On one of the stones inside are three cuttings which appear to be wide sundials. The westernmost south window has two pointed lights re-tooled or modernized outside. The west window was inserted late in the 1 5th century, and has three cinquefoil lights under a flat segmental arch. It is largely glazed with heraldic glass of the 1 8th century, placed there by an Earl of Onslow.

The walling is of flint with stone dressings ; diagonal buttresses strengthen the angles at both ends ; the one to the north-west of the nave is modern ; in the modern square buttress against the south-east of the nave is a stone on which is cut an early circular sun- dial probably of the I zth century ; it has three circles and is divided in twenty-four spaces by radiating lines ; four dots mark the hour of noon and a small cross that of six p.m.

The south porch has ancient timbers ; it is open at the sides, in which were formerly balusters or posts.

The roof of the chancel is of low pitch and with heavy timbers, and may date from the i^th century. The nave roof is of late 15th-century date, although it appears to have been reconstructed in 1716 ; the wall plate has a handsome embattled cornice fixed to it, probably original.

The font has a bowl of Sussex marble, square, with shelving sides, in which are arcades of shallow circular- headed arches which have been partly chiselled off ; it is of the earliest date of the building ; the stem and base are modern.

In the chancel are preserved, in a glass case, some ancient panels of oak ; it is doubtful whether they belonged to a ' table ' behind an altar or to a rood screen ; but they appear to be of late 1 3th or early 14th-century date ; the figures upon them are un-

��doubtedly those of St. Peter and St. Paul on either side of St. Thomas of Canterbury ; the two apostle* bear their respective emblems, the keys and the sword ; the martyred archbishop between them has his right hand raised in benediction, while the left holds the cross staff; there are traces of gold on the nimbus of each saint, and the figures are coarsely outlined in black. Much of the pewing in the western part of the nave is nicely carved in dark wood imported from abroad by a former Earl of Onslow.

The six bells were all by Thomas Lester, 1741, but the third, fourth, and fifth were re-cast by Mears and Stainbank in 1875. One is inscribed in capitals 'At propper times my voice II raies, unto my bennifactor praise.'

The communion plate includes an Elizabethan cup and cover paten of the date 1569 ; also another paten of 1 7 1 z given by Sir Richard Onslow.

The registers begin in the unusually early year of 1536. In the first book, which is of parchment, the baptisms, marriages, and burials are mixed thence to 1583, then written separately from 1584 to 1699, followed by a short gap, the baptisms continuing from 1700 to 1755, marriages 1701 to 1735, and burials 1700 to 1746. In a second parchment book are baptisms and burials from 1653 to 1663 and mar- riages 1654 to 1657 ; there are also two baptisms of 1675. The third book has baptisms and burials from 1756 to 1807 ; the fourth has marriages from 1778 to 1812 ; the marriages between 1735 and 1778 appear to be missing. The fifth continues the bap- tisms and burials from 1807 to 1812.

The advowson of the church of JDfOirSON West Clandon always descended with the manor.

Smith's Charity is distributed as in CHARITIES other Surrey parishes.

Land was purchased for the benefit of the poor at an uncertain date, and vested in the churchwardens (now not known).

Balcuin left about 25 to the churchwardens for the poor at an unknown date.

William Stovall left money for bread, for the poor, also at an unknown date, and Lord Onslow gave a small piece of land for the same object."

The various charities produce about 30 a year.

��EAST HORSLEY

��East Horsley is bounded on the north by Cobham and Ockham, on the east by Effingham, on the south by Shere and Abinger, on the west by West Horsley. It measures 4 miles from north to south, and three- quarters of a mile from east to west. It contains 1,826 acres. The elongated form is common to it with the other parishes along the northern slope of the Chalk, and like the others it reaches from the crest of the hill across the Chalk, the Thanet and Woolwich Beds, and on to the London Clay. The village is be- low the Chalk or just upon its lower edge. On the sum- mit of the Chalk however hereabouts occurs a bed of clay with frequent flints. The village is compact and well built on the whole. The Guildford and Epsom road and the Guildford and Cobham line run through the parish. East Horsley Station, opened in 1885, is

��nearly a mile north of the village. The station called Effingham Junction is also in East Horsley, and was opened the same year.

Green Dean is the name of a farm in the parish. The name occurs at an early date. John de Grendon held land in East Horsley in 1305,' and Peter de Grendene appears in an inquiry by Christchurch, Canterbury, under Edward III.'

Horsley Towers is a large house standing in a park of 300 acres, the seat of the Earl of Lovelace. The old house was rebuilt about 1745. The present house was built by Sir Charles Barry for Mr. Currie on a new site, between 1820 and 1829, in Eliza- bethan style. Mr. Currie, who owned the combined manors, 1784-1829, rebuilt most of the houses in the village and restored the church.

��Part. Rtt. 1786.

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��9 Manning and Bray, Hist. ofSurr. Hi, 29.

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