Excerpt from Surrey Archaeological Collections, Vol. 44
An Afternoon Meeting was held on May 16th at Thorpe and Egham and Windlesham. The places visited were: St. Mary's Church, Thorpe, where Mr. Reginald H. Pearson, Secretary of the Monumental Brass Society, spoke on the brasses in the Church especially noticing the palimpsest discovered since the publication of Mr. Mill Stephenson's Handbook of Surrey Brasses.
Great Fosters, which is one of the most important Elizabethan houses in the county, and dates from 1601-3. It is a brick building with elaborate gables, carved brick pinnacles, and moulded copings and parapets. Inside are good plaster ceilings, chalk mantels and panelled rooms. The property is now used as an hotel.
The Church of St. John the Baptist, Windlesham, where the party was received by the rector, Rev. J. Archibald.
An Excursion was held at Salisbury on June 12th under the guidance of Mr. George Engleheart, F.S.A., when members visited Stonehenge and Old Sarum. The excursion concluded with a visit to the Salisbury, South Wilts and Blackmore Museum, where members were received by Mr. Frank Stevens, O.B.E., F.S.A.
The Annual Excursion was held on July 18th at Oxted and Limpsfield. The meeting was conducted by Mr. Arthur Keen, F.R.I.B.A., who spoke on the examples of domestic architecture visited, and Mr. Philip M. Johnston, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., addressed the members on the Churches. The Society visited the Churches of St. Peter, Tandridge, St. Peter, Limpsfield, and St. Mary, Oxted, and the following houses: Barrow Green Court, by permission of Capt. Hoskins Master, a Jacobean red brick building with three fine gables on the East Front and original oak panelling and fireplaces inside; De Tillens, by permission of Horace Barry, Esq., a fifteenth-century timber house with the original hall divided with an upper storey at a later date; Stocketts Manor, by permission of W. S. Edgson, Esq., a good example of Elizabethan domestic architecture.
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