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��two 13th-century piscina drains in a very plain tri- angular-headed recess ; their projecting faces have been cut away. A 1 3th-century archway opens into the north aisle ; its jambs are chamfered and have a moulded abacus, and the arch is pointed and of one chamfered order. The south chapel or organ-chamber is modern, but in its south wall is a re-used 1 5th- century window of three cinquefoiled lights under a four-centred head; the jambs are moulded and there is a moulded label outside ; a modern pointed archway opens to the south aisle.

Both arcades of the nave are modern and each of four bays ; that on the north side has piers of four clustered shafts with moulded bases and capitals of late 13th-century style and pointed arches of two orders ; the south arcade is of a later style with octagonal pillars and pointed arches. The north aisle has three north windows and one at the west, all of three lights, the former doorway was between the first and second windows, but this is now blocked and another doorway inserted farther west.

The south aisle has three re-used 15th-century windows on the south, all of similar detail to that in the chapel. A 12th-century round-arched doorway, a good deal repaired, has been reset in the south wall ; its jambs are of two orders, the inner with an edge- roll and the outer square with detached shafts in the angles, which have scalloped capitals with hollow- chamfered abaci ; the inner order of the arch has an edge-roll like the jambs, and the outer has a triple band of zigzag ; the label is double-chamfered with billet ornament on the inner splay. The porch is a modern one of wood.

A doorway in the west wall of the aisle opens into the modern vestry, which has an outer doorway to the south-west and a four-light window in the west wall.

The east arch of the tower dates from c. 1 1 60 ; its jambs are square and have scalloped capitals with grooved and chamfered abaci, the scallops being small with vertical grooves cut in each, and the arch is round and of a single square order.

The west doorway of the tower is a 1 5th-century insertion with moulded jambs and a two-centred arch with a moulded label. Over it is a small round-headed window, modern externally, and above this the wall sets in slightly. The second story has a modernized round-headed light in its south wall. The bell chamber windows have been much modernized but are old inside ; each is of two round-headed lights within a round arched tympanum, and between the lights is a round shaft with a scalloped capital ; the material of the walling is of flint with stone dressings, but most of the quoin stones are modern ; above the tower rises an octagonal wooden spire covered with oak shingles. The east wall of the chancel has been coated with cement ; but the walling of the north chapel is exposed, and is built of flint and small pieces of ironstone conglomerate.

The only old roofs are those of the nave and north chapel ; the nave has old collar-trussed rafters with plaster filling between, and the north chapel has

��collar trusses and tie-beams. All the roofs are tiled except that of the north chapel, which is covered with Horsham slabs.

The fittings of the church generally, font, pulpit, &c., are modern.

In the north jamb of the archway between the south aisle and chapel is set a small palimpsest brass, the later figure is that of a bearded man in armour of the time of Elizabeth ; on the reverse is a 1 5th- century priest in mass vestments, holding a chalice and host ; on the chalice is inscribed in black letter ' ESTO M? JHS,' and on the host ' JHS.' The second word on 'the chalice is perhaps MEUS or MIHI. On the south wall of the chancel is a tiny brass representation of the Nativity c. I 500, and there was formerly in the church a plate with the figures of fifteen sons, part of a brass of about the same date. A small brass inscription in the north chapel over the arcade is to Aminadab Cooper, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, died 1618, 'he left behind Dorothy his wife and had issue God-helpe their only son.'

There are six bells ; the treble was cast in 1687 and recast in 1905 by Taylor & Co. ; the second is by Thomas Swain, 1767 ; the third is like the treble ; the fourth by William Eldridge, 1687 ; the fifth by Pack & Chapman, 1773 ; and the tenor by John Taylor, 1902.

The communion plate is modern.

The registers date from 1562. There is a note in them that they were copied by the Rev. W. Tucker, vicar in 1 700, from an old book. But the marriages and burials are lost from 1564 to 1610, and the baptisms from 1565 to 1610, and from 1628 to 1630 inclusive. From 1644 to 1656 the baptisms are imperfect, and from 1646 to 1656 there are no mar- riages or burials. Nor are there any burials from 1678 to 1684.

The advowson belonged with the ADVOWSQN manor to the abbey of Chertsey. Clement III (l 187-91) granted leave to the abbey to appropriate the church on endowment of a vicarage. The bull was recited in 1 292 "but the episcopal registers show the institution of rectors till 1465, when the monks of Chertsey received a licence for the appropriation to them of the church of St. Andrew, Cobham, which was of their own advowson and was held in chief, provided that they endowed a perpetual vicarage there, and dis- tributed annually a certain sum of money among the poor of the parish." At the Dissolution the rectory and advowson passed into the hands of the king, 48 who granted them to his new foundation at Bisham. 49 When the house at Bisham was dissolved the rectory and advowson reverted to the Crown. In 1 549 it was leased to William Fountayn and Richard Moyn, M and in 1558 granted to William Hammond, 41 who presented in April, 1558. He conveyed ulti- mately to James Sutton," who died in 1594." His son James presented in 1615." According to Manning and Bray his son James settled the rectory on his marriage with Catherine Inwood in l622. M Their only surviving child Catherine married first her cousin

��46 Cal, Pat. 1281-92, p. 493. 48 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 29 Hen. VIII.
 * ' Pat. 5 Edw. IV, pt. ii, m. 21.

L. and P. Hen. VIII, xii (2), g. 1311 22). An inventory of the church goods

��of Cobham Church in 1549 occurs in MS. of W. M. Molyneux, Hiit. MSS. Com. Ref. vii, App. 6060.

50 Pat. 3 Edw. VI, pt. v

61 Pat. 5 & 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. iv.

68 Winton Epis. Reg. White, fol. i la.

446

��68 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 736.

M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccitl, 36.

M Winton Epis. Reg. Bilson, fol. 42*.

" She was patron when the Common- wealth Survey was made ; Surr. Arch. Coll. xvii, 210.

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