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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��There is a large modern wooden pulpit and a white marble font, the latter presented in 1902 by the parish clerk.

A print of the old church shows a large building with a central tower ; from it several monuments have been transferred to the present building when the other was taken down.

On the north wall is an alabaster and marble tablet to Richard Kellefet of Egham, 1595, son of George and Margaret Kellefet, and to his wife Cicely. He was ' a most faithful servant to Hir Majestic, chief groome in the removing garderobe of beddcs, and yeoman also of her standing garderobe, of Riche- mount ' A shield over the tablet bears, Ermine, a chief azure, and a talbot passant thereon. On the east wall of the south aisle is a mural brass to Anthony Bond, 1 576, his wife and two sons. He was a citizen and writer of the court letter of London. The arms above the monument are, Argent, two bends sable with a crosslet sable in the cantle. On the same wall is the very interesting inscription recording the build- ing of the old church in 1327. + HEC : DOMUS :

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Over the gallery stairs at the north-west angle of the nave is a monument to Lady Cicely Denham, and Eleanor Moor, first and second wives of Sir John Denham. Their half-figures are shown coloured and in high relief in a circular panel about which is a pilastered and pedimented frame of alabaster and marble. One of the women holds an infant in her arms, and the figure of a boy is shown half out of the frame. The design is very good and effective, but the execution is hardly equal to it. Above are the arms of Denham Gules a fesse indented ermine, im- paling Sable a fesse indented with three molets on the fesse. Over the other stairs to the south-west is a monu- ment to Sir John Denham, without any memorial inscription, with a rather more elaborate architectural treatment and a most curious figure composition of very considerable merit. The plinth, on which is inscribed ' Ex ossibus armati,' has a frieze in high relief of skeletons emerging from their shrouds within a tomb whose sides are breaking up in all directions ; two of the figures, evidently meant for Sir John Denham and his wife, have reassumed their flesh.

Above this in complete relief is the nude and bearded figure of a man rising from his tomb, obviously a portrait of Sir John ; a shroud still partly covers his head and shoulders, and on his coffin is written ' Prae- terita sperno.' Above is an entablature carried by Corinthian columns, on which are two angels blowing trumpets, with the words ' Surge a Somnis.' Another 17th-century monument, to Sir Robert Foster, it hidden by the organ. He was Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and died in 1663. His bust is in a circular frame, with shields of arms above and on either side. The upper shield has the arms of Foster Ar- gent a cheveron between three bugle-horns sable quartered with Argent a bend engrailed sable with three harts' heads cabossed or thereon. The other

��shields bear (l) Quarterly gules and argent four scallops counterchanged, and (2) Quarterly or and gules a bend vair, which are the arms of Burton and Sack- ville respectively. In the chancel are several good modern monuments to the family of Gostling.

The tower contains six bells, cast in 1819 by T. Mears.

The church plate consists of a cup of 1 6 1 8, inscribed in a dotted line as the gift of Adrian Moore and bearing the arms, a fesse, three pierced molets thereon ; a standing paten of the same date with similar inscrip- tion and heraldry but in an incised line ; a cup of 1 793, and a very handsome flagon, in a curiously shaped leather case of 1749. There are also two standing patens or salvers of German or Flemish workman- ship and 16th-century date, the bowls of which are elaborately engraved with figure subjects, one repre- senting David harping, the other Christ in the house of Martha. The latter is signed r}-B.

The first book of the registers contains marriages from 1560 to 1 666, baptisms from 156010 1669, and burials from 1592 to 1651. The second book has all entries from 1653 to 1709 in the case of marriages, and to 1711 for the other entries. The fourth book has all entries from 1 7 1 1, marriages running to 1751, baptisms and burials to 1771. Marriages are sepa- rately continued from 1754 to 1812, and a sixth book has baptisms and burials from 1771 to 1812.

CHRIST CHURCH, Virginia Water, consecratedin 1 838, is cruciform, of brick with pointed arches, a tower and stone spire. The chapel of ease of St. Simon and St. Jude, Englefield Green, was built in 1859. It is of stone in 13th-century style, with a west tower. A cemetery adjoins it.

In 1291 the churches of Chertsey, 4DVOWSONS Egham, and Chobham were together valued at 63 6/. %J., and the vicarage of Egham at ^9 6/. 8</. lss This appears to be the first reference to the church, which must, however, have existed before this date. It was in the hands of the monks of Chertsey from its foundation until the dissolution of the abbey. The vicarage was formally ordained by the abbot in 1333 : the vicar, Robert de Wanynden, and his successors were to have a mansion well and honestly built, with the adjacent croft called Thorpeshull, containing 1 5 acres of arable land, a piece of land called Denacre, a small meadow called Thachmede, pasture called Wynclesworth Parva, and various other small parcels of land. Half the tithes coming from 20 acres of land towards Staines, formerly of Richard Barentin, were also granted to him. 136 Augmenta- tion of the vicarage was made in 1421.'" In the survey of the abbey's possessions, taken in I535, IM the rectory of Egham was valued at 17. Both rectory and advowson were surrendered to the king in I537- 139 The rectory was granted to the new foundation at Bisham in the same year," but reverted to the Crown once more on the final suppression ot Bisham Monastery in July 1538. Edward VI granted the rectory of Egham to John Poynet, Bishop of Win- chester, in 1551,'" and John White, who was bishop in 1558, also rejeived a grant of it, together with the advowson of the vicarage, from Queen Mary. 1 "

��1Ma Pictures show a Norman door to the old church, which was not therefore entirely built in 1327.

Popt Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.}, 206*.

��Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 25, foL 40.

W Ibid. fol. 4.1.

W Palor Bed. (Rec. Com.), ii, 56.

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��" L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xii (2), 4.69. 141 Pat. 5 Edw. VI, pt. vi, m. 26. "" Ibid. 5 & 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. IT, m. 6.

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