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��cornice, partly restored, is moulded and enriched with square flowers.

Against the east wall is the large altar tomb of alabaster to Sir William More, kt., son and heir of Sir Christopher More, who died at Loseley in 1600, and Dame Margaret his wife, the daughter of Ralph D.miel, who left issue George More, &c. It is divided into bays by pilasters containing marble panels. On it lie the alabaster effigies of Sir William and Lady Margaret ; the former in full-plate armour. The lady wears a tight bodice and full farthingale, and both are very well preserved. The inscription is on a black marble panel in the back above the figures. At the sides are brackets on which are seated cherubs ; on either side of the middle panel are dark coloured marble shafts with gilded Corin- thian capitals, and over the cornice above are three shields with coats of arms ; the middle one is quarterly I and 4, Azure a cross argent with five martlets sable thereon, for More ; 2 and 3, Argent a cheveron between three cockatrices gules, for Mudge ; the north shield has More impaling Dingley, Argent a fesse with a molet between two roundels sable in the chief, the south shield has More and Mudge quartered impaling a coat of seven quarters.

Extensions or wings were thrown out on either side for other members of the family ; the north wing forms a monument to Sir George More and his wife Anne, but the inscription in the panel behind is to the lady only ; she was one of the daughters and co-heirs of Sir Adryan Poynings, kt., second brother to Thomas last Lord Poynings (who died without issue) and of Mary wife to Sir Adryan, daughter and sole heir to Sir Owen West, kt., brother and heir to Thomas, Lord De La Warr ; she died in 1 590 leaving issue Robert More and others. On the base are the kneeling figures face to face of Sir George and Lady Anne. The south wing has the kneeling figures of two ladies, the first of whom is described in the inscription as Elizabeth daughter of Sir William More ; she was married three times, first to Richard Foisted of Albury, secondly to Sir John Woolley, one of the secretaries for the Latin tongue to Queen Elizabeth, and thirdly to Thomas, Lord Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor of England. She had no issue by the first and third husbands, by the second she had Sir Francis Woolley, kt. The second lady is Anne daughter of Sir William More, married to Sir George Manwaring of Ightfield, Shropshire, and had issue Sir Arthur, Sir Henry, and Sir Thomas, kts., and George Manwaring and two daughters. Over these four last-mentioned figures are their respective coats of arms.

The monument to Sir Christopher is a much smaller one, affixed to the east wall north of the large tomb ; it is a black marble tablet in a stone setting of Renaissance design with a shield of arms over a large swag of fruit and flowers. He was one of the king's remembrancers of the Exchequer and was twice married ; first to Margaret daughter and heir of William Mudge, by whom he had issue Sir William and five other sons and seven daughters ; the second wife was Constance the daughter of Richard Sackville and widow of William Heneage ; he died in 1549, but the monument is of much later date, c. 1660. On the south wall is a monument, which is an almost exact replica of the last, to Sir Robert More, one' of the Honourable Band of Pensioners to King

��James and King Charles, son and heir of Sir George More, kt. He married Frances (daughter of Sampson Lennard and his wife Margaret, Baroness Dacre daughter of Thomas Fiennes, Lord Dacre, and sister and heir of Gregory Fiennes, last of that name), by whom he had issue Sir Poynings and others ; he died at Loseley in 1625 ; over the monument is a shield of forty-five quarters. A third similar monu- ment is that on the west wall to Sir Poynings More, created baronet in 1642 ; he married Elizabeth daughter of William Fytche of Woodham Walter (Essex) and had issue Sir William and other children ; he died at Loseley in 1649, and Elizabeth in 1666. There are other monuments to later members and descendants of the family. Mr. William More- Molyneux was the last to be buried there in 1907. It is now closed for interments. The chapel has a modern plaster panelled and vaulted ceiling with corbel heads on the walls to the main ribs ; these are also of plaster and are repetitions of the heads of a king and a lady. In the window are twelve modern shields of arms of the More family.

There was an ancient monumental brass in the former church, but it has now disappeared excepting a scroll in two pieces with the inscription ' Mater Dei memento mei.' The original is mentioned in Aubrey's History of Surrey (1719) as the figure of a priest in vestments with a scroll issuing from his mouth and the inscription below : ' Hie jacet Dfis Thomas Calcott presbyter parochialis istius ecclesiae qui obiit xx die Mensis Julii anno domini MCCCCLXXXXVII cujus anime propicietur deus Amen.'

In the porch among other monuments is a mural brass inscription to Caleb the son of Philip Lovejoy, who died in 1676 aged seventy-four ; the epitaph in verse was composed by himself. He left a house in Southwark for the benefit of the parish.

Of the ten bells which hang in the tower, eight were cast by Taylor & Co. in 1 879, and the other two by Warner & Sons, 1 894.

The communion plate comprises a silver cup of 1601, standing paten of 1791,3 large flagon of 1749, two plates of 1835, and a silver spoon probably of Norwegian make ; there is also an electro-plated cup, probably of the 1 8th century. Besides these there are two cups, two patens, and an alms-basin, all of silver-gilt, dating from 187*.

The registers begin in 15 62; the first book con- tains baptisms, marriages, and burials from that year to 1 68 1 ; the second has all three, arranged in columns, from 1682 to 1736 ; the third, the same from 1737, the marriages finishing in 1754, and the others in 1812 ; the fourth continues the marriages from 1754 to 1812. The register contains the baptism of Arch- bishop Abbot in 1562, and of a son of Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, born at Loseley, 5 November 1636, who is not mentioned in any peerage.

The iron church of ST. LUKE in Addison Road is a chapel-of-ease to Holy Trinity.

The church of the ASCENSION is an iron chapel- of-ease to St. Nicholas's in the district called Guildford Park, near the railway station.

The advowsons of Holy Trinity

4DyQWSONS and St. Mary are commonly stated to

have been granted by William Tes-

tard to the Prior and convent of Merton in the 1 3th

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