. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE Horley church, the north aisle of which is entirely built in this style, used to boast of another series of windows, very like what we find in a group of churches chiefly in Kent and eastern Sussex, of which Chartham and Winchelsea are the most prominent instances—the peculiarities of which are so marked as to have obtained for their tracery the name of Kentish. The north doorway, which possesses beautiful and characteristic mouldings of this period, and the arcade between the nave and aisle, have fort
. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE Horley church, the north aisle of which is entirely built in this style, used to boast of another series of windows, very like what we find in a group of churches chiefly in Kent and eastern Sussex, of which Chartham and Winchelsea are the most prominent instances—the peculiarities of which are so marked as to have obtained for their tracery the name of Kentish. The north doorway, which possesses beautiful and characteristic mouldings of this period, and the arcade between the nave and aisle, have fortunately not been spoilt in restoration. There is a type of two-light window found in several Surrey churches, of which those at Effingham are good instances, in which the design is of two trefoil-headed lights, with a plain uncusped opening over, formed by the intersection of the heads of the sub-arches with the enclosing arch. The trefoils are of a somewhat inelegant, elongated shape. Windows approximating to this type are found in the churches of Byfleet, Merstham, Merton and Nut- field ; while the same design on a larger scale is seen in the great five-light east window of Godalming. Their date may be fixed at about 1310. In Charlwood Church is an extremely graceful two-light window, in the eastern part of the north wall of the nave. Its date may be about 1320, or possibly somewhat later.' FROM c. 1320 TO c. 1350. From this point the beauty of window tracery grows less, ever, will be found many interesting examples. In the following group, how- Banstead.—Font. Betchworth.—Windows in north aisle of nave, c. 1330. GoildforS,. » Andre on Charlwood Church, ^urr. Arch. Coll. xi. 6. This window is in firestone and in a somewhat decayed state. Happily, so far it has not been restored. The late Mr. William Surges notices (Arch. Jour., xxi. 210) 'a rude figure of a peacock, incised or scratched upon one of the jambs, being possibly a rebus of the name of a workman.'. Please no
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