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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��In the interior the most striking features are the much-restored chancel arch and its flanking recesses that to the south pierced with a squint dating from the middle of the 1 2th century. But though parts of the works are old, particularly in the recesses, the whole has been so much renewed, with the addition of carved shafts and elaborate mouldings, that it possesses little interest for archaeologists. The arcade to the new aisle, also a very elaborate piece of work, has been built to accord with the chancel arch, the materials used being chalk and Caen stone, with shafts of Irish marble from Lord Midleton's estates in that country.

Within the chancel practically all is new, including the sedilia in the south wall, but the piscina is said to be a copy of that formerly in existence. The chancel and chapel windows,' which are entirely modern, are designed in the style of the early part of the 1 4th century, and there are also some image niches and other features in the new work with much carving about them. The roofs, fittings, and glass are also modern.

The chancel roof is panelled and covered with sacred emblems. That of the chapel has quatrefoiled bosses, with painting and gilding in the panels. The rere- dos, of Caen stone, has five canopied compartments, the middle one containing a cross supported by angels, and the other four cherubim standing on their wheels.

Besides the monuments to Lord Midleton's family in the chapel there are some brasses of ancient date, one on the north wall of the chancel to Joan Adderley, bearing date 1487. It is fixed in a slab of Sussex marble, and represents her in widow's dress kneeling at a prayer-desk before a representation of the Blessed

��Trinity with labels inscribed, ' Ihu Mercy Lady helpe' and the inscription in black letter :

Ex vestra caritate orate pro Mima. Johane Adderley quondam uxoris Johtfis Adderley quoi/dam Majoris Civitatis London', et nup^r uxor;V Wille/mi Brokes, armigeri, Patroni istius ecckfie, qae quid^m Johana obiit xviij die Novembr/V a 'Domini mcccclxxxvij ; cuja/ ai/e propicietur Deus. Amen.

In front of the altar rails is another slab bearing a brass cross which formerly marked the actual place of her burial.

Among the church plate is a paten of 1717 and a chalice and paten of peculiar design and uncertain date, made at Danzig, Germany.

There are three bells, all of 1 7th-century date.

The registers of baptisms begin in 1697, of burials in 1 69 8, of marriages in 1699. There is a note at the beginning that the old registers were destroyed when the rectory house was burnt ' in Dr. Mead's time.' He was rector 1661 to 1687.

The church is not mentioned in

AD VQ ffSON the Domesday Survey of Peper Harow,

but it was assessed at 5 in 1 29 1. 60

The advowson was an appurtenance of the manor,

with which it has descended till the present day.

The charities are a rent-change on CHARITIES an estate at Shelley in Essex, for the use of poor persons, amounting to 30^., left by Nicholas Wallis, rector in 1 606 ; and Smith's Charity for the relief of aged and infirm persons of good character, apprenticing children, portioning maids, &c., payable out of the Warbleton estate, Sussex, and amounting to about 3 a year or under.

��PUTTENHAM

��Potenham and Putenham (xiii cent.).

Puttenham is a village on the south side of the Hog's Back, 4^ miles west of Guildford, 5^ miles east of Farnham. The parish is roughly triangular. The base from north-east to south-west is nearly 3 miles long; the line from the apex to the middle of the base, north-west to south-east, is under 2 miles. The west side is longer than the northern side. It contains i ,93 1 acres of land and 29 acres of water. The village lies in the north-east angle of the parish. The northern part of the parish is on the chalk of the Hog's Back ridge, though, as is almost invariably the case, the village is not on the chalk. The rest of the parish is Upper Green Sand, Gault, and Lower Green Sand, which is the predominating soil.

The views from the upper ground are extremely picturesque, embracing the Hindhead and Blackdown ranges, and extending over Sussex to the South Downs, while the foreground is broken and diversified with woods and heaths. Puttenham Heath, however, to the east of the parish, is mostly covered with turf, and a nine-hole golf course has been made on it, with a club-house opened in 1897. Puttenham Common, to the south-west, is a true heath, covered with heather, fern, and furze, and rising to over 300 ft. above the sea, with a deep depression between it and the chalk to the northward.

The parish is purely agricultural. Chalk was dug

��on the Hog's Back. The district of the famous Farn- ham hops extends into Puttenham. The northern boundary of the parish is the road along the ridge of the Hog's Back. One sign of the antiquity of the road is the frequency with which it forms the old parish boundaries. Captain James, R.E., traced the so-called Pilgrims' Way through the parish below the chalk. It went on as a lane to Scale, and has been converted since 1903 into a good road.

On Puttenham Heath is a fairly large tumulus called Frowsbury, which has never been explored. Neolithic flints are not uncommon near it. On Puttenham Common is a considerable entrenchment, with one bank and ditch. It is of about 5 30 ft. on the south, east, and west sides, but the north-east angle is slightly obtuse, the south-west angle slightly acute, so that the east and west sides are not parallel, and the north side is shorter than the other. On the west there is no distinct bank, and no ditch, but the hill falls sharply to a stream in the grounds of Hamp- ton Lodge, and has been perhaps artificially scarped. The water below is within missile range of the entrenchment. Romano-British pottery and a rude pavement were found near this, to the north-east, in 1870. Many neolithic flints have been found on the borders of the parish, near Shoelands, a little further north.

There is a cemetery with a chapel on Puttenham

��10 Poft Nict. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 208. 52

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