. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE chancels of Egham and Great Bookham, for in both churches contem- porary inscribed stones recording the fact still remain. According to these the dates of rebuilding were respectively 1327 and 1341, and the graceful windows in the chancel at Great Bookham can thus be accurately dated. It is hardly hazarding too much of a guess to con- jecture that Byfleet church owes its early fourteenth century windows and piscina to the same munificent abbot or his immediate predecessor. But we must look to an older
. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE chancels of Egham and Great Bookham, for in both churches contem- porary inscribed stones recording the fact still remain. According to these the dates of rebuilding were respectively 1327 and 1341, and the graceful windows in the chancel at Great Bookham can thus be accurately dated. It is hardly hazarding too much of a guess to con- jecture that Byfleet church owes its early fourteenth century windows and piscina to the same munificent abbot or his immediate predecessor. But we must look to an older generation for the chancel of Coulsdon, in which are to be seen some of the most beauti- ful mid-thirteenth century mouldings in Surrey or elsewhere. In Chip- stead, Cobham and Bisley churches we find work of the early part of the thirteenth and the latter half of the twelfth century, doubtless due to previous generations of the same abbey's masons. The prior of Merton held the advowson of Effingham from an early period, and the chancel was rebuilt, in all likelihood, by William de Brokesbourne, prior from 1307 to 1335, In particular two small early fourteenth century windows are ascribed to him. Carshalton church probably owes some of its earlier features to this priory, to which the advowson was given in the reign of Henry II. A few monastic bodies outside Surrey owned lands and advowsons in the county. Thus the fine church of Shere probably derives some of its thirteenth and fourteenth century features from Netley Abbey. Battle Abbey had a holding in Limpsfield, and we may perhaps look to it for the interesting early thirteenth century chancel. It is, of course, often the case that more than one religious house held land in a particular parish,' so that it is open to question which may have been responsible for its architectural features. But where we find, as in the case of St. Martha's Chilworth, and Bramley and Wonersh churches, that they were in the hands of bishop Odo o
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