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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��by 29ft. 1 1 in., south aisle 1 2 ft. 8 in. wide, south porch, and west tower 1 2 ft. 9 in. square all inside measurements.

The earliest part of the building dates from the beginning of the 1 2th century, at which time it con- sisted of an aisleless nave, the present one, and a chan- cel ; the latter was probably smaller than the present chancel, which is a rebuilding of about a hundred and twenty years later. The lower part of the existing tower was also added in the 1 3th century, about 1 240, and may have had a timber upper stage until the pre- sent stone addition over it was built about 1340.

The east window of the chancel is an insertion of the second quarter of the 1 4th century, and is a fine example of the style ; it is set rather to the south of the axial line of the chancel, and this may have been a piece of subtlety on the part of the builders to make it appear central with the nave, as it will be noticed that the centre line of the nave passes through that of the window, which it would not have done had it

��The 14th-century east window is one of three trefoiled lights under a two-centred arch filled with flowing tracery, now modern ; it has two chamfered orders outside and a scroll-mould label ; the inside jambs are old and the pointed rear arch is chamfered. In the north wall is a plain square locker, partly restored ; the 1 3 th-ceotury lancet in this wall has its glass two inches from the outside, but a groove in the jambs shows that it had formerly been set farther in. On the south side are two original lancet windows like that opposite. Below the first is a modern arched recess with an old sill having a piscina drain in the west half, and a plain surface on the east, while be- tween the windows is a blocked doorway not visible outside owing to the modern coating of cement ; it has a segmental arched head inside of square section like the jambs, and is probably contemporary with the windows. At the west end of this wall is a low window of a single trefoiled light with much deeper chamfered jambs outside ; it has been a good deal

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��been in the middle of the wall. The large window in the north wall of the nave is of the same period, but has modern tracery. At the beginning of the 1 5th century the south aisle was added, with the present arcade, and at the same time the chancel arch was widened to its utmost limits. Soon after this the rood loft was set up and a passage way pierced through the wall above the east respond, the bases of the chancel arch being cut to accommodate the screen. Two other windows were inserted in the north wall in the same century, the easternmost evidently to light the north nave altar.

The west gallery was put up in 1622, and the south porch was probably added at the same time ; when the modern vestry was built the 1 3th-century lancet, displaced by the organ arch, was reset in its east wall. A certain amount of necessary restoration to several of the windows has been carried out and other work done to put the building in good repair. The only entrance to the church (a fairly large one) besides the small door in the vestry is that in the west wall of the nave, approached through the tower.

��knocked about, but is probably a 14th-century insertion.

The vestry has a three-light window in its north wall, the reset 13th-century lancet already mentioned in its east, and a doorway to the west. In the vestry are preserved two bases of small shafts contem- porary with the early nave, and one 13th-century base.

The chancel arch has semi-octagonal jambs with moulded bases and capitals of a heavy section, the latter with ogee abaci ; the wall above is evidently of the date of the arch and not older work pierced, and the arch is of three chamfered orders, the inner order considerably wider than the others.

The first of the four north windows of the nave is a 15th-century insertion of two trefoiled lights under a square head with sunk spandrels ; the window is set low in the wall and the wall below the sill thinned to form a recess for the nave altar. The second window is a large 14th-century insertion of three lights ; the outer order of the double chamfered jambs is old, but the tracery is modern ; the inner

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