The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . d elms forming an archwayacross the road, can rarely be seen in these homecounties, and the church itself is an ancient buildingof the eleventh century, with later windows, insertedwhen the Norman gloom of its interior assorted lessadmirably with a more enlightened time. In plancruciform, with central tower and double nave, it isof an unusual type of village church, and presentsmany features of interest to the archaeologist, whoseattention will immediately, be arrested by the frag-ments of an immense and hideous fresco seen on thesouth wal
The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . d elms forming an archwayacross the road, can rarely be seen in these homecounties, and the church itself is an ancient buildingof the eleventh century, with later windows, insertedwhen the Norman gloom of its interior assorted lessadmirably with a more enlightened time. In plancruciform, with central tower and double nave, it isof an unusual type of village church, and presentsmany features of interest to the archaeologist, whoseattention will immediately, be arrested by the frag-ments of an immense and hideous fresco seen on thesouth wall. A late brass, now mural, in the chancel, 176 THE BRIGHTON ROAD dated 1553, is for Nicholas Sander and Alys his Sanders, or, as they spelled their name variously,Saunder, held for many years the manor of Charlwood,and from an early period those of Purley and Sandersted—Sanders-stead, or dwelling. Sir Thomas Saunder,Remembrancer of the Exchequer in Queen Elizabethstime, bequeathed his estates to his son, who sold the >&..- e? cr~ reversion of Purley in 1580. Members of the family,now farmers, still live in the parish where, in happiertimes, they ruled. One of the prettiest spots in Surrey is the tinyvillage of Newdigate, on a secluded winding roadleading past a picturesque little inn, the SurreyOaks, fronted with aged trees. It is, perhaps, theloneliest place in the county, and is worth visiting, NEWDIGATE 177 if only for a peep into the curious timber belfry of itslittle church, which contains a hoary chest, contrived
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