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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��The nave is of three bays. The arcade on the north, of 1 6th-century date, has no responds, the low three-centred arches of two chamfered orders dying into the surface of the east and west walls of the nave. The columns are octagonal with moulded capitals of slight projection and very plain bases. The south arcade is quite modern with octagonal columns, moulded capitals, and four-centred arches of two chamfered orders. The tower arch is plain ijth- century work of the full width of the tower, dying into the walls at the springing.

The north aisle is built of brick and has three large two-light stone-dressed untraceried windows to the north, with a similar one to the west. At the east is a door leading into a vestibule which has an exter- nal door and a staircase leading to a gallery running round two sides of the aisle.

The south aisle has two windows to the south, of three lights with tracery 'of late 13th-century detail, and the south door and the entrance of the south porch are designed in a style harmonizing with the windows, with shafted jambs and moulded two-centred heads. In the porch is a small door opening on to a stair, contained in a quarter-octagonal staircase, which leads to a gallery over the west of the aisle. In the west wall are two single trefoiled lights, above which, lighting the gallery, is a circular traceried window.

The tower is of three stages, the upper being of wood, weather boarded, on which is a small spire covered with lead. In the second and ground stages are small lights of 13th-century date with circular rear arches and wide internal splays. Externally the jambs and head have been replaced with brick, forming square-headed openings with wooden frames. The west door has been similarly treated.

The font is of early 12th-century date and is in the form of a modified cushion capital. The inverted lunettes of the faces are edged with a cable mould and have panels, in one of which occurs an Agnus Dei and in another a goat. The third has a star, and the fourth a cross with expanded arms and stem. At the angles are small projecting heads, two of which have been defaced. The circular stem has been recut and the base is modern. Under the two-centred arch between the chancel and the north chapel is a curious late 15th-century monument designed to contain two kneeling effigies. It is of two bays, with four-centred openings below a heavy panelled and embattled cornice, and has engaged shafts at the angles and middle of each side. At the north-east angle is the return of a panelled screen, or perhaps doorway, which formed part of the original design, but as the monu- ment is clearly not in position nothing can be said of it. The carved details of leaves and flowers are good, but there is nothing to give a clue to the persons whom it commemorates.

There are a number of brasses. On the west wall of the north chapel is a plate with an arched head bearing the kneeling figures of a man in armour, his wife, six sons in civilian dress, and twelve daughters. The inscription begins : ' Here resten the bodyes of Erasm' ffbrde Esquyer sone and heyre of Walter fforde sometyme tresorer to Kynge Edward the iiij th in his warres at ye wynnyng of Barwyke ' &c. The inscrip- tion gives the date of his death as 1533 and is also in memory of his wife ' Julyan ' (Salford), who died in 1559. The arms are : Three lions rampant crowned ; quartering parted fessewise a lion rampant fretty.

��A second shield shows the same coat impaling a fesse engrailed with three boars' heads thereon between three talbots, and beneath it ' Fforde and Salford,' and a third has the same impaling a cross engrailed within a border, and beneath it ' ffbrde and Legh.' On the north wall of the chancel is a brass to Robert Smyth, 1539, and Katherine (Blounte) his wife, 1 549, who had four sons and three daughters. The arms are a fesse with three martlets thereon between three leopards' heads. Below is a brass to William Notte, 1576, and Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of the above Robert Smyth, 1587. The figures of the father, mother, and of fourteen sons and five daughters are shown. On the east wall of the nave is a brass to John Foisted, 1540, and his wife Anne Wheeler, who had four daughters, Anne, Jane, Elizabeth, and Julian, the last of whom erected the monument in 1582. The kneel- ing figures of the father, mother and children are shown, with two shields, one being Foisted, a bend between two molets with three trefoils on the bend and a chief with a pelican wounding itself between two trefoils ; and the second Foisted impaling a camel between three demi-catherine wheels, and on a chief a Catherine wheel (for Wheeler). There is also a brass to the above Julian, 1586, and her two husbands, on the north wall of the north chapel ; the first was Cuthbert Blakeden, 1 540, ' while he lyved Serjeant of the Confectionary to king Henry Theight,' by whom she had four daughters and two sons, the second, John Booth [ob. 1548], 'one of the ordynary gentleman ushers as well to the said King Henry theight ; as to his sonne Kyng Edward the vi,' by whom she had four daughters and one son. The figures are shown standing and the arms are : Ermine three lions rampant in a border en- grailed (for Blakeden) ; and three boars' heads razed palewise (for Booth) ; also Foisted impaling Wheeler. Another brass on the east wall of the north aisle is to John Cheke, 1 590, and his wife Isabel Seilearde, with the standing figures of the father, mother, and six sons. The arms are a cock, impaling (i) a chief ermine ; (2) a cross with a label of five points ; (3) three lions rampant ; (4) a lion rampant with a crescent for difference. There is also an inscription to Anne daughter of William Childe of East Sheen in the parish of Mortlake and county of Surrey, 1607 ; another (in Latin) is to Elizabeth (Hatton), 1608, wife of William Leygh. On the north wall of the north chapel is a marble monument and bust of Colonel Sidney Godolphin, Governor of Scilly and Auditor of Wales, 1732.

The tower contains six bells, all cast by Thomas Swain in 1753, except the fifth, which was cast in

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The church plate consists of a chalice and cover paten of 1637, a paten of 1715 inscribed 'Ex dono Henrici Bridges, 1716,' a large flagon and alms- dish made and dedicated to the church service in 1724, spoon strainer of 1807, and a modern almsdish.

The first book of registers contains mixed entries between 1663 and 1695, a second book has entries 1753 to 1778, a third appears to be a duplicate ex- tending 1765 to 1773. There is a marriage book to 1781 and a printed marriage book, 1781 to 1812, also a book containing baptisms and burials 1781 to 1812.

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