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��his will to trustees for sale, 56 and in 1760 George Gilbourne and Anne, William Whitmore and Mary, Sarah Whitmore, widow, and John Armitage and Jane (evidently the heirs of Bonsey) conveyed the manor to Rowland Thomlinson.* 7 After this date the manor changed hands frequently. According to Manning it was sold in 1774 to Sir Thomas Sewell, whose family sold it in 1795 to Edmund Boehm, 38 the owner of Ottershaw (q.v.) in Chertsey. He went bankrupt, and his estates were sold in 1820. At the present time the manor of Twichen is no longer in existence. Two farms, called Scotcher's and Bonsey's farms, lying in the north-east of Horsell and close to Chobham parish probably represent the lands formerly known as the manor of Twichen.

The church of OUR LADT consists of CHURCH a chancel 29 ft. 8 in. by 1 8 ft. 7 in., with north vestries and a south organ-chamber, a nave continuous with the chancel 5 I ft. 10 in. long, a south aisle 146. 3 in. wide, and a west tower I oft. 3 in. square, all measurements being internal.

There is nothing of earlier date than c. 1320, and to this period belongs the north wall of the nave. The tower was added in the 1 5th century, and the south aisle early in the i6th century, while the rest of the building is quite modern. What the original chancel was like there is nothing left to show, but be- fore 1890 it was of brick, and where the organ - chamber now stands there was a brick vestry. In 1890 the whole of the east portion of the building was rebuilt, and a bay added to the nave and aisle. The east wall of the aisle was originally close to the piscina still remaining in its south wall. The tower was entirely recased with the exception of the stair- turret about 1880, and when the east end of the church was rebuilt in 1890 the remainder of the church was restored.

There are several photographs in the vestry showing different parts of the church before the work of 1890 was carried out.

The chancel has a large five-light window in the east wall and a two-light one to the north, both being of 14th-century style with traceried heads. Op- posite the north window are a modern piscina and sedilia of three bays, each with cinquefoiled ogee heads and pierced spandrels.

At the south-west is an archway leading to the organ-chamber, and a similar one in the north opens to the vestry.

There is no chancel arch, but the chancel and organ-chamber are separated from the nave and aisle by modern wood screens.

The four windows of the north wall of the nave are all of different date, the easternmost being a square-headed 15th-century window of two trefoiled lights, probably inserted to light an altar at the east end of the nave ; while the next, c. 1320, has two trefoiled ogee-headed lights with a quatrefoil over in a two-centred arch. The third window is all modern, and has two lights with tracery over of flowing character, and the westernmost window is of 15th- century date much restored, and has three cinque- foiled lights with a square head and a moulded label. Only the lower part of the jambs and the sill are original. The head was once raised so as to light a gallery at the west end of the nave, which is now removed, and the window has been lowered again.

��The south arcade of the nave is of four bays with hollow-sided octagonal columns and semi-octagonal responds. The three western bays are old, and the columns have octagonal moulded bases and capitals, and the two-centred arches are of two hollow-cham- fered orders. The modern column and respond at the east have bases and capitals of different section. In the south wall of the aisle are three windows ; the first modern, of three lights with intricate tracery In the two-centred head ; the second window, to the west of this, has two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil over, and is a modern copy of the 14th-century win- dow in the north wall of the nave ; while the third window is of 1 5th-century character, like that opposite to it in the north wall, and is of three trefoiled lights under a square head with a moulded label ; a part of the double-chamfered jambs and the inside splays only are old. The west window of the aisle is modern and has three trefoiled lights with tracery over. Between the first and second of the south windows is an old piscina recess with a trefoiled ogee head. The basin, which was apparently large and shallow, has lost its projecting portion. The south doorway is between the second and third of the south windows, and has old plain-chamfered jambs and a two-centred head. The tower is not set centrally with the nave, but considerably to the south, the north face of its pro- jecting north-east staircase-turret being set flush with the north wall of the nave. The stair is entered from the west end of the nave, and to the south of it a pointed doorway opens from the nave to the tower.

In the north and the south walls of the lower stage of the tower are modern windows of two trefoiled ogee-headed lights with a quatrefoil over, the inside jambs and rear-arches in each case being old. The west doorway of the tower is original, with the ex- ception of a shallow outer order which belongs to the casing, and has heavy hollow-chamfered orders with a large roll between.

The tower is of three stages, embattled, and with belfry windows like those in the bottom stage ; the nave has old timbers in the open timber roof with large tie-beams, and that to the aisle is similar, but has only one old tie-beam. This roof rests on stone corbels over the nave arcade.

There are two plain old chests in the tower ; one on the floor above the ringing-chamber has threi iron straps with staples and two curious padlocks one having the initials I.E. and the other 1.11. The covers to the keyholes cannot be opened without pressing aside similar covers on the opposite sides of the locks ; one lock, however, has lost its covers.

The screen between the south aisle and the organ- chamber has old heads to six of its lights, of cinque- foiled ogee shape with foiled pierced spandrels.

The oak pulpit is of mid- 17th-century date, and has a moulded cornice and panels carved with a diamond pattern. The double west doors of the nave appear to be mediaeval work, probably contemporary with the tower.

In the nave are several monuments and slabs. At the east end, on the floor near the screen, is a black- letter inscription in brass as follows : 'Hicjacet tumu- latus John Aleyn Capellan' anime cuius ppiciet deus amen' Near this is a brass to Thomas Edmonds, ' citizen and mr. carpenter to the chamber and one of

��"Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 198.

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