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��stone vault ; the vault must therefore have been removed by this time if it was ever completed at all. The window consists of three lancets separated by wide rebated and chamfered mullions, all under one two-centred rear arch ; the two jambs inside have a deeply undercut roll with a somewhat formless base, and stopped out below the springing. The two north windows are original, and have round heads with shallow rebated outer jambs, and wide inner splays with engaged shafts at the angles, which have scalloped capitals with grooved and chamfered abaci. The two south windows are contemporary with the east window ; the first is restored outside, but has an inner edge roll like that of the east window ; the other has plain angles. West of the latter is a 1 5th or 1 6th-century priest's doorway, now opening from the modern vestry. The vaulting shafts divide the chan-

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eel into two bays ; the middle pilaster is a foot wide and projects about seven inches, and has an engaged half-round shaft on its face, flanked by detached round shafts 5 in. in diameter, and similar detached shafts stand in the angles at the east and west ends of the chancel ; they all have good moulded bases with pro- jecting spurs at the corners of the square sub-bases; the capitals are richly scalloped and have hollow cham- fered square abaci. The richest detail of the whole chancel is the elaborately carved string-course running round the chancel below the windows ; it is large and half-round in section, ornamented with interlacing spiral bands filled in with diamond-shaped leaves ; the string is carried round the vaulting shafts and finishes against the chancel arch. The eastern angles of the chancel have shallow clasping buttresses, and there are shallow buttresses behind the intermediate shafts ; the two side walls are about 2 ft. 8 in. thick and the east wall about 3 ft., the walling is flint mixed with conglomerate with chalk dressings, and all the dress- ings inside are of chalk.

The chancel arch and the nave generally are modern, excepting perhaps the rear arch of the north doorway which appears to be of the I3th century ; it is of chalk and has a pointed edge roll with deep hollows on either side of it and another small roll on the outermost edge. Three lancet windows pierce

48 Dugdale, Mm, vi, 383. Wyktham's Reg. (Hanu Rec. Soc.), i, 36, 66, &c.; Egerton MSS. 2031, fol. 268,

��the north wall, the doorway with a pointed head coming between the second and third. An arcade of four bays divides the nave from the aisle ; it has round pillars and pointed arches of 13th-century character. The east wall of the aisle is pierced by a traceried circular window, and the south wall has four windows each of three lights under traceried heads. At the west end of the nave is a pointed doorway be- low an organ gallery, and on the west wall is a bell- cot in which hangs a small modern bell.

The roofs are all modern, as are the altar, pulpit, font, &c.

There are no ancient monuments, the earliest being two gravestones in the chancel, one to Nicholas and Elizabeth Fenn, 1705, and the other to Burleigh Fenn, who died in 1 708.

The communion plate comprises a silver cup and stand paten of 1 846 and a plated flagon and paten.

The older registers are incorporated with and kept at the mother parish of Send.

The advowson of the church of JDPOWSON Send was granted to the Prior of Newark by Ruald de Calva." It remained with the priory until the Dissolution," when it was granted with the manor (q.v.) to Sir Anthony Browne. It has followed the descent of the manor from that time.

The chapel at Ripley was granted to Newark Priory by Ruald de Calva." Its advowson descended with the manor of Send after the Dissolution, when the Newark possessions were granted to Sir Anthony Browne.

The chapel was included as a chantry chapel at the time of the Commissions of Edward VI, and a revenue of 6 was confiscated as a chantry founda- tion. The building survived and was made the church of an ecclesiastical parish in 1878.

A table in the church records CHARITIES Smith's Charity, distributed as in other Surrey parishes ; and the follow- ing benefactions :

A house near the church which was exchanged with General Evelyn for a house at Three Ford, 177*, for the use of the poor. It was probably the old parish workhouse.

William Boughton gave 40*. a year from the rent of a house called Keep House.

Sarah Hale gave 20, the interest to be for poor widows. A return of 1786 says that this was lost by a defaulting churchwarden.

Dame Anne Haynes gave 300 to bind poor chil- dren as apprentices. This property is now worth 50 a year.

Mrs. Lcg.it gave 2.00, the interest to be devoted to poor widows not receiving regular relief.

General Evelyn gave 201. a year for the repair of his monument, the surplus for the poor on Christmas Day.

1 01 d. ; 2032, fol. 74 d. ; 2033, fol. 39 d., 63, 69 ; 2034, foL 58 d, 87 d., 171. M Dugdale, MM. Angl. vi, 383.

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