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 BOROUGH OF GUILDFORD

��has semi-octagonal jambs with modern bases and moulded bell capitals ; the detail of the north capital is earlier than that of the south capital ; the arch is pointed and of two chamfered orders. In the gable above the arch is a lancet window (with its rear arch to the east) which formerly helped to light the chapel before the aisle was widened. The easternmost window of the aisle is a i^th-century insertion, but wholly restored outside ; it has three trefoiled lights with quatrefoils above in a two-centred arch ; below it is a square aumbry rebated all round. The second window is a wide lancet with widely splayed inner jambs ; this also is restored outside. The north door- way is a fine one of the 1 3th century ; the jambs are of three orders with Sussex marble shafts in the angles ; the shafts have double roll bases and moulded bell capitals ; the arch is moulded with a series of rolls and hollows ; of the two principal rolls one is triple filleted and the other keeled, and the label is also moulded ; in the jambs inside are two small sinkings for draw-bars. The wood porch protecting the doorway is modern. The third light in the north wall resembles the second. Below the windows is a round string-course, which is interrupted by the three-light window, but continues over the doorway. The west window is old inside and restored outside ; it is of three trefoiled lights with tracery. Below it is a small plain square window, now all modernized, the use of which is said to have been to hold a light to guide travellers across the ford of the River Wey, from which it is little more than 200 yds. distant. It is not, however, opposite the ford. The archway between the south aisle and chapel differs from the corresponding arch on the other side ; it has half-round jambs with modern bases and moulded capitals ; the arch is of two chamfered orders. Over it is a lancet window which lighted the chapel. North of the arch in the east respond of the arcade is a small mutilated piscina with a square basin in a square recess ; probably it dates from the ijth century and may have been set here when the I ^th-cen- tury piscina in the south wall was inserted. The latter piscina is now much mutilated, but was originally a fine example ; it is semi-hexagonal in plan and vaulted; it was formerly moulded and crocketed on the face, but this is now all cut away. The first south window, above this piscina, is modern outside like the rest in this wall, but has old inner quoins and moulded rear arch ; it was probably a late 14th-century inser- tion of three trefoiled lights under a square head. The other three windows are wide lancets with old inner jambstones and splayed rear arches. Below the third window is a blocked doorway of which only the segmental rear arch and inner jambs are visible. An early 1 8th-century plan shows a porch outside it. The west window of the aisle is of four ogee trefoiled lights under a head filled with net tracery ; the inside jambstones and arch are the only old ones remaining. Below, and to the south of this window outside, is a curious niche with a cinquefoiled head ; its jambs are skewed to the north.

The whole of the exterior of the walling (excepting that of the tower and the east wall, which is of chalk) has been encased with flint, and all the buttresses are modern except one ; the south wall has been strength- ened by seven buttresses and the west by four ; the north wall has a buttress at the west end and one rebutting the cross arch, both modernized ; against the entrance to the chapel apse is a small original

��buttress in which is a stone carved with a panel having a feathered trefoiled head ; probably it formed the back of a lamp niche and had a bracket.

The tower, built of rough flint, can be seen above the roofs on all four sides ; the shallow I ith-century pilasters, two on the west face but four on each of the others, are all of rough flints ; a few tiles have been mixed with the flint-work. The chamber immediately above the church is lighted only by a small modern window on the north side and is approached through the space above the chancel vaulting from the east vice. The bell-chamber is lighted by six windows ; of the two in the north wall the east and lower has a trefoiled and square modern head and partly restored jambs, the west and higher is a lancet, modernized outside ; on the east side is a large modern lancet, on the west side is an old lancet, and on the south a long narrow lancet and a trefoiled light. The former has an older half-round rear arch evidently belonging to a former and much wider window. At a line roughly about J ft. below the parapet string-course the walling is later and composed of flint and stone ; the string is modern, as also is the embattled parapet.

Above the chancel vaulting is a gabled wood roof covered with tiles. The two chapels have open- timbered gabled roofs which appear to be old ; the rafters lean over considerably to the west. The nave roof is also open-timbered with collar-beam trusses. The space below the tower has a modern flat wood ceiling. The aisle roofs are both gabled and open- timbered ; they have moulded tie-beams with traceried spandrels to the struts below them. These trusses are supported on curiously carved stone corbels, all of late 1 5th-century date; one (in the north-east corner) shows a grotesque beast gnawing a bone. The corbel over the re-cut north capital is plain and apparently modern. All the roofs are tiled.

The altar table is a light one of polished mahogany with square fluted legs and fluted rails.

The font is entirely modern ; it has a square bowl of clunch with scalloped under-edge, resting on a chamfered square stem and four small stone shafts with scalloped capitals and moulded bases.

The pulpit is a modern one of stone and marble ; it replaced a igth-century stone pulpit, the successor of one of ijth-century date, abolished because of its extreme decay.

Forming a part of the organ-case, in the south chapel, are the remains of a late 15th-century screen, part of which formerly closed off the apse of the south chapel and formed the backing to an altar ; there are eight bays, of which two have plain depressed three-centred arches and another a four- centred arch with trefoiled spandrels ; these three evidently formed doorways on either side of the altar and to the stair. The other five heads are cinquefoiled ogees and have plain tracery over. The posts between are double hollow-chamfered and have buttresses with moulded offsets ; the cornice is also moulded.

On the vault of the apse of the north chapel are a series of I zth-century paintings. The upper portion of the series contains a version of the favourite medi- aeval subject, the ' Doom ' or ' Last Judgement.' In the centre is a ' Majesty ' or figure of Christ seated in judgement within a vesica-shaped aureole ; on the right hand of Christ is St. Michael with outstretched wings, holding the balance, one scale of which a

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