Excerpt from Surrey Archological Collections, Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, Vol. 12About ten churches in Surrey are dedicated to St. Nicholas, and of these, three are in the almost adjoining parishes of Guildford, Pepper-harrow, and Compton, a peculiarity which we find in another part of the county, Where the three adjoining churches of Burstow, Horley, and Leigh, are called after St. Bartholomew.Some writers,3 finding that the church of St. Nicholas, Compton, is mentioned in Domesday Book, do not hesitate to say, that no doubt much of the present structure was standing when that survey was made, but the logic of this statement appears defective, from the simple reason that the mere fact of a place possessing a church at the time Of the Conquest, does not in any way assure us that it had a substantial building likely to last to the present day, and we know for a certainty that many of the Saxon edifices were speedily replaced by others when they came into the hands of the new comers, being probably either ruinous or unsuited to the views Of the Normans, who, as Malmesbury tells us.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,
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