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��The tower arch is of two moulded orders, the inner resting on moulded half-octagonal capitals and shafts, the outer dying into the walls.

The tower is of flint and stone with patched diagonal buttresses. It has a west door, a two-light west window, belfry lights, and a brick parapet, all suggestive of 18th-century work, and appears to have been rebuilt, partly with the old materials.

The early monuments of interest are one brass to Edward Carleton, 1608, and a tablet of the same date to Lawrence Tomson.

The bells are eight in number, the treble, second, and tenor by G. Mears, 1859, the last being a bell of 1670 recast; the third by R. Phelps, 1730; the fourth by Lester and Pack, 1756 ; the fifth a 15th- century bell from the Wokingham foundry, inscribed, ' Ora Mente Pia Pro Nobis Virgo Maria.' The sixth is by William Eldridge, 1712, and the seventh by Robert Mot, 1588.

The present plate, consisting of two cups, two patens, a flagon, and an almsdish, was given in 1843 to replace a set which was stolen.

The registers date from 1610.

ALL SAINTS' Church, Eastworth Road, is of red brick with Bath-stone facings. It consists of a chancel, nave, and south aisle divided from the nave by an arcade with pointed arches.

CHRIST CHURCH, Longcross, was built c. 1 847 by Mr. William Tringham, the principal landowner in Longcross. The church is of brick and stone, with a turret on the south side. The body was lengthened and a chancel added in 1878.

HOLT TRINITr Church, Botleys and Lyne, was built in 1 849. It is a small cruciform church of stone, of 13th-century design, with a central tower. Lady Frances Hotham presented the site.

CHRIST CHURCH, Ottershaw and Brox, was built by the late Sir Gilbert Scott, in 1 4th-century style, of brick and stone, with a tower and spire. The whole cost was borne by SirT. Edward Colebrooke, bart., who further gave 1 ,000 towards the endowment. A ring of bells was also given by Mr. William Edward Gibb of Sheerwater Court, in 1 885, in memory of his father.

The church ofSr./Vt/L,Addlestone,builtin 1838, is of brick with stone dressings, with a tower, the details of which are quite hidden with ivy. The windows are pointed. It was enlarged in 1857 and restored in 1883. The site was given by Mr. G. Holmes Sumner.

The iron church of ST. 4UGUSTINE, Weybridge Road, was built in 1891.

ALL SAINTS', Woodham, is a picturesque stone church in the middle of the pine woods near the confines of Chertsey and Horsell, built in 1893.

A vicarage of Chertsey, with an en-

ADVOITSONS dowmentof6 1 3;. 4^., is mentioned

in the year I2<)l. m The church be-

��longed to the abbot and convent, and remained in their hands until John Cordrey, the last abbot, gave up his pos- sessions in 1 5 3 7. 159 The vicarage was formally ordained in 1331 ; 19 the vicar and his successors were granted the house and certain lands belonging to the vicarage and oblations from the church. He was not required to pay any pension to the abbey, and was entitled to eat in the abbey at the abbey's expense on Rogation days and at Easter. 191 Augmentation of the vicarage was made in 1 402, as the provision made for the vicar was found to be inadequate. He was henceforth to receive tithes of the ' townships ' of Crockford and Woodham, 19 * and, in addition, all tithes from the working artificers and merchandises of the parishioners; tithes of the fishing of the parishioners, unless done in the private waters of the abbey ; tithes of milk, butter, cheese, cream, eggs, and pigeons ; and half tithes of geese, honey, wax, hemp, apples, pears, onions, garlic, and all things titheable if they grew in the gardens of the parish. Various exceptions to the foregoing were made. The vicar was to pay all synodals, martinals, and tenths to the king for the portion of the vicarage. 198 The rectory and advowson of the vicarage became vested in the Crown in July 1537.'" In December of the same year the king granted the rectory to the new foundation at Bisham," which, however, was dissolved in six months. It remained in the Crown until 1551, when Edward VI granted it to John Poynet, Bishop of Winchester, 196 who was deprived of his see on the accession of Queen Mary, in whose reign Cardinal Pole appears to have had a grant of this rectory. 197 A lease of it had been held since 1535 by Henry Gyle, who held it under the Abbot of Chertsey and the Bishop of Winchester. 198 The lease, renewed by Mary and Elizabeth, 199 expired in 1587, when Elizabeth granted the rectory to Thomas Horsman for three successive leases of twenty-one years each.* 00 Horsman presumably surrendered the leases, as in 1607 James I granted the rectory, in- cluding great and small tithes worth ^14, to Richard Lydall and others,' 01 and again in 1622 to Lawrence Whitaker. The advowson of the vicarage was granted in 1558 to John White, Bishop of Winches- ter,* 03 who was, however, deprived in 1559, when his lands were sequestered.* 04 The advowson was in the possession of Peter Arpe before i624.* 5 It is probable that he acquired the rectory also, as his son held both rectory and advowson in 1 644,** and both were henceforth held together. They remained in the possession of the family of Arpe or Orby until I727,* 07 when General Robert Hunter presented to the church.* 08 He had married Elizabeth Orby, sister and heir of Sir Charles Orby.* 09 Their children pre- sented in 1737, and Thomas Orby Hunter, their son, in 1758." Advowson and rectory were sold in 1764 to Sir Joseph Mawbey,* 11 who presented in 1787,"' his son Sir Joseph doing so in 1805."* The advow-

��188 Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 206.

" Cal. Pat. 1281-92, p. 493 j r.C.H. Surr. ii, 9 ; Exch. K.R. Misc. Bk. vol. 25, fol. 39 et seq. ; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 56 ; Cott. MS. Vitcll. A. xiii ; Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 29 Hen. VIII.

>Exch. K.R. Misc. Bki. voL 25, fol. 39.

191 Add. MS. 2482, fol. 21.

1M Exch. K.R. Misc. Bka. vol. 25, fol. 39*.

l Add. MS. 24827, fol. 21.

��1M Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 19 Hen. VIII.

" L. and P. Hen. fill, xii (2), 469. 198 Pat. 5 Edw. VI, pt. vi, m. 26. W Ibid. 8 Eliz. pt. ii, m. 32.

198 Ibid, i Mary, pt. xi, m. 37.

199 Ibid. 8 Eliz. pt. ii, m. 32.

800 Ibid. 36 Eliz. pt. i, m. 7.

801 Ibid. 5 Jas. I, pt. xx, m. t. 808 Ibid. 19 Jas. I, pt. x, m. 9.

808 Ibid. 5 4 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. iv, m. 6.

412

��* y.C.H. Hana, ii, 73.

805 Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.).

406 Cal. of Cam. for Comf. 3054.

"W Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.) ; Feet of F. Surr. HiL 32 & 33 Chas. II ; ibid. Div. Co. East. 3 Will, and Mary.

808 Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.).

809 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 230.

810 Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.).

" Close, 4 Ceo. Ill, pt. v. 818 Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). " Ibid.

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