Surrey archaeological collections (1858) (14582232288)

Identifier: p1surreyarchaeol37surr (find matches)
Title: Surrey archaeological collections
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Surrey Archaeological Society
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Publisher: Guildford (etc.)
Contributing Library: Surrey Archaeological Society
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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stern arch of thetower, intermediate between the Nave and Chancel—isof Early Norman date: but the eastern arch is so completelydisguised with stucco that its date can only be assumed aseleventh century. If this be the case, there was originallyeither a short square-ended chancel or an apsidal termina-tion beyond the tower: but all the features of the presentChancel point to its eastward extension in the first part ofthe fourteenth century, to which period the very beautifultraceried window inserted in the arched recess of the northwall of the Nave belongs. But before these fourteenth-century alterations, a wide aisle, with a Lady Chapel, werethrown out on the South of the Nave and Tower, and thisaddition was prolonged eastward to nearly the length of theChancel, late in the fifteenth or early in the sixteenthcentury. The Aisle was constructed between 1270 and 1290—tojudge by the character of its windows and doorway, and thefinely moulded capitals of the arcade, each of a different
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BBb. -if i/v: ip. 9 6 3 C ;—t- i I < i ■ ■ i T -i-i—1- <$w Fig. I. ^i. 66 CHARLWOOD CHURCH AND ITS WALL-PAINTINGS. 6f section. It should be noted that the bases to the columnand responds are of a fifteenth-century section, and indicatethat the arcade had shown signs of failure by that date, andthat it had been underpinned to avert a collapse. The two-light window in the south wall of the aisle is arare example of plate tracery. It is of two trefoiled pointed-arched lights, with a circle enclosing a cinquefoil over; thewhole embraced within a pointed arch and moulded labelexternally. This label has a mask stop on the right anda curled stop on the left. The jambs and cill are of ahard local sandstone; all the rest is in the soft calcareousfirestone from Reigate. Eastward of this window is a largeand beautiful piscina (Fig. I.) with trefoiled head beneath arichly moulded pointed arch, enclosed by a straight-sidedlabel, with the same curled stops as in the window. Thepiscina