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��EAST HORSLEY

���AGMONDESHAM. Ar- gent a cAeveron &%wt be- tween three boari 1 headi table <witfi three cinqfoilt or on the cheveron.

��his wife, 40 by which the manor was united to the other manor of East Horsley.

The origin of the so-called manor of ROW- BARNES (Ruebern, Rughberne) in East Horsley is somewhat obscure. In 1215 Ralph de Kameis (Camois) and Matilda his wife claimed land in Rowbarnes of Peter de Rowbarnes. 41 Ralph de Camois held Wotton," and Rowbarnes still pays quit-rent to the manor of Wotton.

In 1229 Walter de Rowbarnes granted to Matilda de Kalcham half a virgate of land in Horsley. 4 * Ac- cording to the pedigree of the Agmondesham family, given in the Vliitationi of Surrey," Ralph, great-grand- son of Walter Agmondesham, who lived in the time of Henry III, gained possession of Rowbarnes Manor by his marriage with one Isabel, whose parentage is unfortunately not stated. This family was still at East Horsley in 1411 when the jurors at the archbishop's court declared that the highway was liable to be flooded owing to the de- fault of Philip Agmonde- sham. 1 * Philip, according to the pedigree, was the son of Ralph and Isabel.

Another Ralph, grandson of Philip, died seised of Row- barnes in 1498, leaving a son and heir John, then twenty- three years of age. 4 * John died without issue, 47 and the manor passed to his brother Thomas, who survived him only for a few years. The inquisition taken at Thomas's death states that he left an infant daughter Barbara, 48 but it seems probable that she died soon after her father, since the Agmondesham pedigree represents him as dying without issue. In any case Rowbarnes came into the possession of John son of Thomas's brother Henry, 4 ' who also obtained the archbishop's manor by a grant from Queen Elizabeth. 50 From that date the two manors have the same descent.

Gervase of Canterbury mentions a convent of Black Nuns at Horsley. By a process of elimination, because Canterbury and Exeter held the rest, this has been supposed to have been at Rowbarnes, but there is no other record of it.

The church of ST. M4RTIN consists

CHURCH of a chancel 296. 3 in. by 156. gin.,

a nave 49 ft. 8 in. by 1 6 ft., with a north

aisle I oft. 4 in. wide, a west tower 1 6 ft. 2 in. by

10 ft. 4 in., and a south porch.

Much repair and rebuilding has obscured the history of the building, but before 1869 the chancel was of 1 3th-century date, and the nave, which was not entirely rebuilt, is probably older. The west tower is so covered with plaster that little can be said of its history ; it opens to the nave by a modern arch, above which is a blocked pointed arch, presumably of 1 3th- century date. A third arch, now quite covered up, is said to exist above the pointed arch, and on the strength of thisa pre-Conquest date has been claimed for the tower. It would be interesting if any proof could be obtained. The windows of the tower are small lancets, in great measure modern, but in the west wall is what looks like a round-headed window opening,

��the lower part of which has been destroyed by the insertion of a west doorway late in the 1 3th or 141)1 century. The plan of the tower is unusual, being much wider from north to south than from east to west.

The north aisle seems to have been originally of two bays, and the chapel east of it, which now is thrown into the aisle, must have existed in some form from the I3th century, though it seems to have been rebuilt in the 1 5th. The aisle was probably widened in the I5th century, and the chapel was entirely rebuilt in 1 869. The chancel and nave are practically of equal width, a fact which suggests a rebuilding of the former in the 1 3th century round an older chancel, while the nave has preserved its original plan. The difference of axis between nave and chancel points in the same direction.

In the east wall of the chancel is a triplet of lancets with diapered inner splays, while the north wall con- tains two and the south wall three lancets, all being repaired and reset in new walls in 1869. There was formerly a third lancet on the north and a north doorway.

To the west of the north windows is a shallow modern recess for the organ, the arch opening to it having attached shafts with moulded bases and capitals. The three east windows are recorded to have been of equal height before 1869.

The chancel arch has re-tooled 1 3th-century jambs with attached semi-columns having original moulded capitals but modern bases. The arch has been rebuilt and is two-centred and of two chamfered orders.

The north arcade of the nave is of four bays with octagonal columns which have splayed bases, of which only one is original, and heavy hollow-chamfered square-edged abaci. The arches are two-centred and are of two orders, the inner hollow-chamfered and the outer with a plain chamfer. Only the two western bays of the arcade are old, the other two dating from 1869 ; so that no evidence of the former history of this part of the church remains. The old work is in chalk, of very broad and plain detail, and in spite of its square-edged abaci is probably not earlier than the middle of the 1 3th century, the section of the arches being by no means of early character.

The south wall of the nave has three pairs of lancet windows under inclosing arches dating from 1 869, and replacing two-light windows of 1 5th-century style ; between the second and third of these windows is the south doorway, which is also modern and has plain chamfered jambs and a pointed arch in Bath stone. The porch of 1 869 is of timber construction and replaces one which was apparently ancient, and had a roof of Horsham stone slabs.

The east window of the north chapel, now forming the east end of the north aisle, is modern, of 14th- century design, and the north window is a modern copy of a 15th-century original, of three lights with a transom under a square head : west of it is a modern copy of a 1 5th-century doorway. Further west in the same wall, in the aisle proper, are two late 1 5th- century windows, each of two cinquefoiled lights under a square head, and in the west wall is a similar window with a moulded label.

Some of the features of the tower have been already noted. A modern lancet has been cut in its south

��40 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. Hi, I.

41 Feet of F. Surr. 1 5 John, no. 97. 48 Testa de Nevil! (Rec. Com.), 219.

��Feetof F.Surr.Eat.i3 Hen.III,no.69.

44 Harl. Soc. Publ. iliii, 53.

45 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. bdlc. 18, no. 6. 44 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xiii, 67.

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��4 ? Harl. Soc. Publ. xliii, 54.

48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xzii, 32.

Harl. Soc. Publ. xliii, 54.

60 Pat. 2 EUz. pt. v.

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