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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��The font is of 16th-century date, and is one of the very scarce instances of a font constructed of wood ; it is octagonal, each side forming a heavily-moulded panel, and the basin is hemispherical and lined with lead. The stem and base are of modern stone- work.

In the vestry at the east end of the north aisle is a fine old iron-bound chest of uncertain date; two of the iron bands have flour de Us ends, and there are three locks ; the lid is apparently of later date. The hinges of the south door also seem ancient, and in the nave hangs a fine brass chandelier for twelve candles, which bears the names of the vicar and churchwardens and the date 1737. In the chancel is a copy of this, made in 1899.

On the west jamb of the arch between the nave and the south transept is a brass inscription in two lines, the ends of the, lines missing : ' Here lyeth buryed Willm Heith of Chabhm. . . Countye of Surray Esquire who died y* xix November in the yere of our Lorde God MCC. . . ' William Heath was brother of Nicholas Archbishop of York.

��Eldridge, 1597. The sixth is by William Culverden of London, c. 1 5 25, and bears in black-letter with crowned capitals ' Sancta Mergereta ora pro nobis,' with the founder's mark. The tenor is another of Robert Eldridge's bells, dated 1610.

The most interesting piece of the plate is a fine cup of 1562, the straight-sided bowl being alone of this date, while the fluted base and the stem with its knot appear to belong to a secular cup of c. 154.0-50, but have no marks on them.

Beside this there is a paten of 1727, a flagon of 1755, and a large two-handled cup with a cover which was made in 1787. There is also a standing paten of 1840, another small paten of 1897, and a pewter almsdish inscribed ' Chobham Church in Surrey 1712.' ,

The church also possesses two small old collecting- boxes with handles and a circle of geometric ornament on the top.

There are five books of registers, the first two of which have been very carefully restored and bound. The first is of parchment, and contains all three entries

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��Below this is another brass to William Soker, undated, but of the I7th century, with a set of three elegiac couplets in Latin.

In the chancel is a floor-slab to Jane, widow of Samuel Thomas and daughter of Anthony Fenrother, 1638. The arms, as here shown, are : A cheveron between three terrets with three ostriches on the cheveron, in a quarter a man on a tower holding a banner, the whole within an engrailed border.

Another slab is to Sir Anthony Thomas, 1 64 1, and his wife Maria, 1658, and there are several other monuments to the same family.

There is also a copper tablet, fixed in the chancel in 1908, to Nicholas Heath, Bishop of Rochester I S39> of Worcester 1543, and Archbishop of York 1555. He lived at Chobham Park in 1571, '573, and 1574, and died at Chobham or in London in 1578, and was buried in the chancel of this church. There are a number of late monuments to the Cald- well family.

In the belfry are eight bells, the treble and second being by Mears & Stainbank, 1892, and the third by the same firm, 1880. The fourth is by William Eldridge, 1684, and the fifth and seventh by Robert

��from 1654 to 1730 ; the second has the same from 1730 to 1770, and is a paper book. The third con- tains baptisms and burials from 1770 to 1812 ; the fourth marriages from 1754 to 1783 ; and the fifth marriages from 1784 to ;8l2.

The church of ST. SAVIOUR, Valley End, is a small brick building, erected in 1867, and consisting of a chancel with a south vestry and organ-chamber and a nave with a north porch. Over the west gable is a wood bell-turret. The roofs are tiled and all the internal fittings are modern.

The parish church of HOLT TRINITY, West End, is a small building consisting of a chancel conse- crated in 1890, nave consecrated in 1842, and a vestry built in 1906. The material is stone and the style is of the I3th century. Over the west end is a small bell-turret with a square spire. The entrance is at the west end.

There is also the iron mission chapel of St. Luke.

The Domesday Survey records

ADVOWSONS the existence of both a church and a

chapel at Chobham, in the possession

of the abbey of Chertsey. 65 The abbot caused the

chapel to be repaired in 1 3 1 S, 66 but after this there

��*' V.C.H. Surr. i, 310; cp. Surr. Arch. Coll. xxi, 206.

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