EFFINGHAM HUNDRED
��LITTLE BOOKHAM
���Benjamin Maddox his brother and heir, then aged 5 months.* 8 Benjamin was created a baronet in 1675," and in 1684, in a court-book for the manor of Effingham East Court, is stated to hold the manor of ' Brewers Court ' M (evidently a corruption of Braose Court). Benjamin died in 171 7," leaving two daughters, the younger of whom, Mary wife of Edward Pollen, inherited this manor. In 1727 Benjamin Pollen son of Mary suffered a recovery 5> of the manor, and died in 1751, leaving a daughter Anne, who died unmarried in 1764. She bequeathed this estate to her step-mother Mrs. Sarah Pollen, with re- mainder to Rev. Thomas Pol- len, son of her grandfather Edward Pollen, by his second wife, with remainder to George Pollen, son of Edward Pollen of New Inn, another son of Edward the grandfather.
Mrs. Sarah Pollen died in 1777, and the estate came to the said Thomas, and a few years later, on his dying with- out male issue, to the said George." George died in 1812, and was succeeded by his grandson, Rev. George
Augustus Pollen, who died in 1847, and was suc- ceeded by his son John Douglas Boileau Pollen." Mr. Henry C. W. Pollen is now lord of the manor.
The church of LITTLE BOOKH4M, CHURCH of unknown dedication, is a small build- ing consisting of a chancel and a nave all under one roof, measuring 59 ft. 3 in. by 1 7 ft. 9 in., with a wooden bell-turret at the west end. On the north side of the chancel is an organ-chamber, and further west are the vestries. To the south of the nave is a porch.
The north and west walls of an early 1 2th-century aisleless nave, to which a south aisle was added about the year 1 1 60, are still standing, but the chancel which was contemporary with it was pulled down in the 1 3th century, and replaced by another of the same width as the nave, the east wall of the nave
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PLAN OF LITTLE BOOKHAM CHURCH
��being entirely removed. By the latter half of the 1 5th century the south aisle was perhaps in bad repair and was pulled down, the spaces between the columns of the arcade being walled up. A 13th- century window, no doubt from the old aisle, has been set in one bay of the blocking.
The vestries, porch, and organ-chamber are modern, the latter having been added in 1901.
The east window of the chancel is a modern inser- tion of 13th-century design, and has three high tre- foiled lancets within a two-centred outer arch. The internal jambs and mullions have shafts with moulded capitals, bases, and rear arches.
In the north wall of the chancel is the modern arch to the organ-chamber, copied from the 12th- century south arcade. The organ-chamber has modern single east and west lights, but the square-headed north window of two trefbiled lights is of 1 5th- century date, and has been moved from the north wall of the chancel. There are three other windows of this type, one in the south wall of the chancel, the head and sill only being old, and the other two at the north-east and south-east of the nave, the north-east window having a modern head. At the south-east of the chancel is a piscina with two drains, probably of 1 3th-century date, over which is a four-centred, cinquefoiled head with sunk tracery in the spandrels, of the 1 5th century.
At the south-west is a blocked window which shows outside as a single light, with a trefoiled ogee head of 14th-century date. The groove for the glass and the holes for the window-bars remain in the reveals and soffit.
The north-east window of the nave is set in an arched recess reaching from the apex of the window to the floor, 9 ft. 6 in. wide, doubtless designed to give more room for the north nave altar ; similar recesses occur in several churches in the neighbour- hood. To the west of it is a single-light 14th- century window like the blocked one in the chancel. Near the west end is a third north window of early 12th-century date, a narrpw deeply-splayed round- headed light, which now looks into the vestry. In the west wall of the nave is another original window, and beneath it a block of masonry of comparatively modern date, added as a buttress.
The arcade in the south wall of the nave is of four bays with large circular columns, the bases of which are hidden, but the scalloped capitals with hollow chamfered abaci show both within and without the building. The columns project from the wall on the inside only, being completely covered on the outside. . The arches are semicircular of one order, chamfered towards the nave, but externally square, and flush with the wall face. The 15th-century window in the blocking of the first bay has been described ; that in the second bay is a 13th-century lancet with a keeled moulding to the inner jambs and arch, and a chamfered label, the moulding ending in simply- moulded bases. In the western bay are two modern round-headed lights, with detached shafts to the inside jambs, of 12th-century design. The south doorway is 1 5th-century work, with plain chamfered jambs and two-centred arch.
��48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), cccclxxxvi,
49 G.E.C. Baronetage, IT, 74.
��* Add. MSS. 23751, fol. 5. 61 G.E.C. Baronetage, iv, 74. M Recov. R. Mich. : Jai. II, rot. 279.
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