HER 8747 - CHAPEL OF ST CATHERINE

Chapel. Built shortly before 1317 by Richard de Wauncey, Rector of St Nicholas, on the site of an earlier chapel. Sandstone rubble with grey ashlar stone dressings. Now roofless. Rectangular 45½ feet x 20½ feet internally, three bays. Buttressed, originally with pinnacles on north and south sides, taller quoined turret to north west corner. Arched windows in Decorated style, with hood mouldings. Central window on first floor of north and south sides converted into additional doorways, possibly in the late 18th century. Large window to east. The chapel was disused by the 1540's, although restored in 1793 by Robert Austen. The chapel is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument. LIST OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN ENGLAND No 24 (HMSO) 1973. ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL VOL 47 (1890) pp 59, 64. VCH SURREY. VOL III p 9. PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1972) p 270. Listing NGR: SU9935048190

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