EFFINGHAM HUNDRED GREAT BOOKHAM
��and one in each end wall ; they are all of three cinque- foiled lights under two-centred heads, and appear to be of late 15th-century date with some modern stones, though they are said to be entirely modern ; they have a wide casement moulding inside and out.
The east window of the south chapel is apparently modern, and contains stained glass in memory of Lord Raglan (Commander-in-Chief in the Crimean War), dating from 1859/5 it consists of five cinque- foiled lights with cuspecj vertical tracery above, in a two-centred head ; th)6 jambs are moulded with a wide hollow. /
In the south wall its a 1 5th-century piscina with an eight-foiled basin apfd stone shelf in a trefoiled ogee- headed recess withi pierced spandrels, and the three windows on the s/outh side of the chapel or widened aisle are each of/ three cinquefoiled lights under seg- m <*.s/ed_hac]&. '/ they have moulded jambs, arches, and labels, and have been partly repaired with cement. The doorway at the south-west corner was that to the former porch ; it has two double ogee orders separated by a hollow in the jambs and pointed arch. In the western wall are two windows, one above the other, each of two cinquefoiled lights, and of modern stone- work. The blocked doorways to the former parvise still remain in place ; the lower opens from the narrow part of the aisle, and the upper is in the west wall of the wider portion ; the stair has been re- moved. The south-west window (in the narrow portion of the aisle) is modern, and has two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil over in a pointed head. The west window is a tiny round-headed light dating from the izth century, and probably contemporary with the aisle.
The tower opens to the nave with a depressed pointed arch, perhaps of late 1 2th-century date, with two chamfered orders, at the springing of which has been a string, now cut away. The base mould is, however, preserved. In the north wall is a small modern round-headed light, and the west doorway, with chamfered jambs and four-centred arch, is per- haps early 16th-century work. Over it is a modern window of two elliptical-headed lights ; and the angles of the tower are strengthened by heavy but- tresses, that at the north end of the west wall being a raking one of brick, while the others are old, of stone repaired with brick in places ; a modern stair turret rises in the north-east angle. The masonry walls stop at the first floor, and the upper part of the tower is of timber carried up within the lines of the masonry tower on heavy oak posts from the floor, and covered with modern boarding ; the parts gathered in over the walls are covered with stone slabs, while the tower is crowned by an octagonal shingled spire.
Most of the walling of the church is of flint and stone, but the lower parts of the chancel are faced with blocks of Heath stone a crystalline sandstone and the north-east angle has some very large quoins in this stone, and in a pebbly conglomerate deeply coloured with iron.
The chancel has a modern plastered collar-beam roof with moulded wood ribs. The nave also has a plastered collar-beam roof with moulded trusses, ap- parently modern.
The south chapel roof is gabled and ceiled below, and dates in part from the building of the aisle and chapel ; it has an old moulded tie-beam over the first arch of the arcade; the space above the tie is filled
��with modern wood tracery ; the narrow south aisle has a flat ceiling, and the north aisle has a modern gabled roof like the others.
The altar table, chancel screen, pulpit and seats are all of modern workmanship ; across the south chapel are the remains of the lower part of a 15th- century oak screen having eight bays of closed panels with feathered trefoiled heads ; the main cusp points had roses attached, but most of these have been destroyed ; the posts and rails are moulded ; some of the former have panelled buttresses on their faces ; one of the panels has the remains of the original painting, and the rest contain modern decoration. The font has a late 1 2th-century grey marble bowl ; it is square, chamfered and rounded to a circle in its lower edge, with the plain capitals of four shafts cut out of the solid ; the stem and base are modern.
The oldest of the inscribed stones and monuments is that in the east wall of the chancel recording the building of the chancel ; it reads : ' Hec : domus : Abbate fuerat : constructa : Johanne : de Ruther- wyka : decus ob : Sancti : Nicholai : Anno : Mil- leno : triceno bisqz : viceno : primo : SJ5S : ei paret hinc sedem requiei.'
On the rail of the old screen in the south chapel is fixed a small brass inscription reading in black letter : ' Pray for the soule of John Barmsdale and Marion his wyf the which John desseced in August in the yere of cure Lord m cccc Ixxxi whos soules Jhu have m . . ' In the nave floor, near the chancel screen, is a brass inscribed ' Hie jacet Elizabeth nup ux Thome Slyfield ac quonda ux Georgii Brewes armig'i filia Edwardi Seynt John milit' que obiit xxvii die mes' Augusti A" dfii M HII C xxxiii ' ; above the inscription is the figure of a lady in a cushion head- dress, high-waisted loose dress, and loose hanging sleeves. Under the south arch to the chancel is a brass inscrip- tion : ' Here lieth buried Henry Slyfield Esq. and Elizabeth his wife who was the daughter of Richard Buckfold citizen of Lond : the said H. was of ye age of 56 yeres and deceased AnDni 1598 and had issue by his wife 6 sonnes and 4 daughters.' Over it is his figure in a gown and ruff, and his hands in prayer ; and her figure in a tight bodice, full farthingale and ruff ; below are the children in one plate. There are three shields of arms, the first being Slyfield quartering Weston of West Clandon, Sable a cheveron or between three lions' heads razed argent ; the second has the quartered coat of Slyfield impaling Buckfold, Party cheveronwise argent and sable three bucks' heads countercoloured with their horns or ; the third has Slyfield impaling Cobb, Party cheveronwise gules and sable with two swans argent in the chief and a her- ring or in the foot.
Further east is a brass inscription to Elizabeth Slyfield wife of Edmund Slyfield and daughter of Walter Lambert, of Carshalton ; it bears no date, but from other sources the date 1597 is known.
On the south side of the east respond of the south ar- cade is a brass inscription to Edmund Slyfield, who died 1590 ; it has a quaint epitaph in 50 lines beginning:
' Of Slyfield Place in Surrey soile
Here Edmond Slyfeld lyes A stout Esquier who allweyi sett
Codes feare before his eyes A Justice of the Peace he was
From the syxt fCinge Edwards dayes And worthely for vertues use
Dyd wyn deserved prayse.' . . ,
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