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 ELMBRIDGE HUNDRED

��COBHAM

��In the 141(1 and i;th centuries a messuage in Cobham known as Dodewikes or Dudwyke was held by a family of the name of Freke. 44

The manor of HAM in Cobham, now in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and formerly part of cne possessions of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor, may have been granted by Thomas St. Leger when he gave Ham in Chertsey to endow a chantry at Windsor (see Ham in Chertsey), and have been originally part of the same manor. It is now, how- ever, a separate manor, the courts of which are still held. The court rolls exist only from 1 704. The manor, which is very small, includes a house and land in Street Cobham, and land in Appleton, which seems to be the old name for the land south of Leigh Hill. There were holdings in the Cobham common fields and in Appleton fields. Heathfield and Bytham are described as in Appleton, and Tyrrel's Croft, 'next the gravel pits.' Emmet's Farm was also in Ham Manor.

The church of ST. ANDREW consists

CHURCH of a chancel 33ft. 3 in. by 1 7 ft. 410.,

north chapel 25 ft. I in. by 13 ft. z in.,

��north aisle at this time. This aisle is shown in Cracklow's plan of 1824, and Manning and Bray give its dimensions as 46 ft. long, or 12 ft. shorter than the nave, but since the middle of the igth cen- tury the building has been considerably enlarged both aisles with their arcades, the south chapel and organ-chamber, the chancel arch, the vestry, and the porch all being modern ; much restoration work has also been carried out ; and the 12th-century south doorway and the ijth-century windows were moved out with the south wall when the aisle was added. The dates of restoration and enlargement are 1853, 1872, 1886, and 1902.

The east window of the chancel is a modern one of three lights under a traceried head of 15th- century character. In the north wall are a square aumbry and a trefoiled recess, both apparently old, but with re-tooled stonework. The arcade opening to the north chapel is of two bays ; the responds are cham- fered and stopped out square above the chamfered base and below the chamfered abacus ; the middle column is circular in plan with a moulded base and capital, and the arches are pointed and of one cham-

���bcaae of 'feet PLAN OF COBHAM CHURCH

��south chapel and organ-chamber 3 1 ft. I o in. by 1 6 ft. 3 in., nave 5 8 ft. 4 in. by 20 ft. 8 in., north aisle 1 6 ft. 7 in. and south aisle 1 6 ft. Sin. wide, south porch, south-west vestry, and west tower I oft. 5 in. by 9 ft. 6 in.

About the middle of the I2th century the church seems to have consisted of chancel, nave, and west tower ; the chancel was probably lengthened early in the 13th century, and at the same time the north chapel was added with an arcade of two bays opening into the chancel ; part of one of the original small lancets remains in the north wall of the chapel, but the other windows are later insertions. A peculiar feature is the triangular-headed double piscina in the south wall.

If the arch in the west wall of the chapel is in its original position there must have been a

��fered order. The arch towards the south chapel is modern ; it has hollow-chamfered jambs and a pointed arch of two hollow orders, the inner one springing from moulded corbels. The chancel arch is also modern with jambs of three clustered shafts and moulded arch.

The east window of the north chapel is of three lights under a traceried head of 14th-century style ; the inner jambs and hollow-chamfered rear-arch are old, but the tracery has been renewed.

The two north windows are each of three lights under a traceried square head ; both have modern mullions, but old stonework internally. Between these windows is a small blocked 13th-century lancet of which the west jamb and half the head can be seen outside ; it has rebated and chamfered jambs. In the south wall next the east respond of the arcade are

��Anct. D. (P.R.O.) B. izn, 1082 j A. 8727, 5726, 5743, 5744, 8884, 574.2, 8988.

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