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 ELMBRIDGE HUNDRED STOKE D'ABERNON

��one of the Vincent family in the time of Charles I.*' The priory of Newark by Guildford as early as the reign of Henry III had a small holding in Stoke D'Abernon granted by Hugh de Fetcham and con- firmed by John D'Abernon, 40 taxed in 1291 at 12*. 6</. 61 After the Dissolution John Carleton of Walton on Thames received a grant from the king of D'Abernon which belonged to the late Priory of Newark, Surrey.' M
 * the messuage called Pryorne (i.e. the Priory) in Stoke

The church of ST. MARY THE CHURCH riRGIN consists of a chancel 23 ft. 6 in. by 15 ft. 6 in. ; a north chapel 21 ft. by 1 3 ft. ; a nave 49 ft. by 2 1 ft. 3 in. ; a north aisle and north transeptal organ-chamber ; a north-west tower and a south porch. The earliest parts of the church are the chancel and the two eastern bays of the nave, which are, so far as the walls are concerned, of pre- Conquest date and represent a church consisting only of a chancel and nave, the latter being 35ft. long. There was also very probably a south porch. In the closing years of the 1 2th century a north aisle of two bays was added, windows were inserted in both nave and chancel, and a new chancel arch was built. At the beginning of the 1 3th century the chancel was vaulted and buttresses and new windows were in- serted in the south wall of the chancel, and prob- ably in the north wall as well. A window was also inserted in the nave. In the middle of the 1 3th century a new south door was inserted and the early porch was destroyed. Probably at the same time a nave altar recess was constructed to the north of the chancel arch. This, however, no longer remains, but a water-colour sketch made before the modern restoration shows this feature very clearly. 43 Towards the end of the i 5 th century the north chapel was built and the rood stair inserted. In 1866 the whole church was enlarged and ' restored." The nave and aisle were lengthened (the latter being completely rebuilt), the old chancel arch was destroyed with the nave altar recesses and the squints, and was replaced by a modern one. The old bell-cot over the west end of the nave was destroyed and replaced by the present tower at the north-west, and various new windows were in- serted.

The east window of the chancel is a modern triplet of 18th-century design. On the north of the chancel is an arcade, of two dissimilar bays, to the chapel. The first of these has an obtuse four-centred head flanked by fluted pilasters, with moulded capitals and bases, which are carried up to an embattled cornice. The spandrels are filled in with plain moulded panels, and the soffit of the arch and the jambs are panelled. Between this and the arch to the west is a short length of walling. The second arch has a more acute four- centred head, and is continuously moulded with a deep hollow between a double ogee and a hollow chamfer. There is no label or canopy. On the south are two windows of the same date as the vault- ing, both single lancets with wide splays and pointed bowtel-moulded internal jambs and rear arch. The moulded external jambs, head and label, are com- pletely restored in modern material. The chancel arch is entirely modern and of late 13th-century de- tail. It is two-centred and of two chamfered orders with a plain chamfered label The jambs have circular

��half shafts with plain moulded capitals and bases. The chancel is vaulted in two bays. The circular vaulting shafts are single in the angles and triple clustered on the north and south walls, where they are placed between the two arches and the two windows respectively. The capitals are circular, moulded, of varying design, and have plain bells. The bases have a water-mould of somewhat unusual angular profile, and are also circular. The vaulting ribs are moulded with undercut rolls and the cross ribs are enriched with dog-tooth. The vault is quadripartite with a filling of small stuff now stripped of its plaster. At the inter- section of the diagonal ribs of the west bay is a small rosette boss. At the east is an elaborate modern marble reredos with stations of the cross in very high relief. On the north is a modern wall arcade of 1 3th-century design.

Above the chancel arch, and visible from the nave, is an opening to the space over the vaulting ; and over and to the north of the north jamb is the rood loft door, a plain pointed one, of 15th-century date. The two western bays of the nave arcade have two-centred arches of one chamfered order, and a plain chamfered

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label. The respond is square with plain abaci, and is much restored. The column is circular with a circular roll-moulded base standing on a square plinth and having plain angle-spurs. The capital has a plain fairly shallow bell worked from the circular shaft to a square hollow-chamfered abacus. The third and fourth bays of the arcade are quite modern. At the south-east of the nave is a piscina of late 15th-century date. The head is segmental and with the jambs continuously moulded with a double ogee. The western jamb, however, has been mutilated to a different form. The back is curved and the basin circular with five channels, and the drain is masked by a small boss. Near this is a small modern door to the modern vestry, in the building of which a plain lancet window of the same date as those in the south of the chancel was blocked up. West of this again is the original south door, now blocked up. This is of mid-i3th-century date and has a drop two-centred head. It is continuously moulded with a roll set in a hollow chamfer. In the east jamb is a recess for a

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