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��1669 and was succeeded by his son John. John, clerk to the council, married Penelope daughter of the Earl of Northampton, and died in 1704. He left three sons : Edward, who died unmarried in 1726, John, who left daughters and died in 1742, and William, who succeeded his brother and died in 1749.*" He left West Horsley by will to Henry Weston, son of John Weston of Ockham. 4 ' Weston died in 1759, and was succeeded by his son Henry Perkins. After Henry's death in 1826 the manor passed in turn to his sons Ferdinand Fullerton and Charles Henry Samuel. 60 The latter died in April 1 849,*' leaving his nephew Henry Weston, father of the present owner, as his heir. The manor is now in the possession of Mr. Henry Macgregor Weston, of the ancient Surrey family of Weston of Weston in Albury and Ockham, not to be confounded with Weston of Sutton who held land in West Clandon (q.v.).

West Horsley Place, lately the residence of Mrs. Fielder, is also the property of Mr. H. M. Weston, who himself resides at Cranmere. West Horsley Place used to be commonly known as the Sheep Leze, from the flat meadow in front of it next the road ; but West Horsley Place is the name in the 1 6th century. It is a large red-brick building which has been much altered from time to time. Some parts of the back are of timber, and possibly of 1 6th-century date, but the front was rebuilt in 1 749. It faces south-east, and it has projecting wings at each end, which, however, have been shortened. The west wing originally had a long gallery, which has since been divided up into rooms. The front is of two stories, separated and crowned with large moulded brick cornices. The

��upper story is divided into bays by projecting pilas- ters with moulded bases and Ionic capitals. Over the centre is a large gable, and the wings have smaller and plainer gables. All the windows have square heads and wood frames.

It appears to have been largely rebuilt in the early 1 7th century by the second Lord Montagu, who resided there. The two wings formerly projected farther than they do now : foundations exist outside them. Probably Montagu built the gallery in the west wing. Henry Weston who succeeded in 1749 is said to have made alterations. 51 He probably cut down the wings, destroying the gallery, and built the present 1 8th-century brick fapade. It was again altered in the igth century.

The church of ST. MART THE CHURCH riRGIN has a chancel 31 ft. I o in. by 1 6 ft. 2 in., south vestry, south chapel 1 6 ft. by 1 3 ft. I o in., nave 47ft. 3 in. by 19 ft. 8 in., north aisle 1 6 ft. 6 in. wide, north porch, south aisle 1 3 ft. I o in. wide, west tower 12 ft. loin, square, and a west porch ; all these measurements are internal.

The plan is very irregular and difficult to analyse, the centre line of the tower being about I ft. to the north of that of the nave, which is itself 1 5 in. north of that of the chancel. The tower, which is of the 1 2th century, is built against the west wall of the nave, which is therefore of earlier date than the tower. The length of the nave, and the line of its north wall, probably represent those of an early aisleless nave, and the north wall of the chancel may also stand on the foundations of an equally early chancel.

A north aisle was added to the nave about 1210,

���WEST HORSLIY CHURCH FROM THE SOUTH-WEST

��m Gent. Mag. 1750, p. 43.

<9 Manning and Brty,Hisf.afSfrr. 111,41.

��60 Brayley, Hist. ofSurr. ii, 79.

51 Gent. Mag. (New Sen), xxxi, 66*.

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��61 Manning and Bray, Hist. ofSurr. iii,

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