The chapel also contains the bodies of Henry, Henrietta his wife and their daughter Adelaide who died aged sixty five.
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This is a beautiful rural setting deep in Surrey countryside, the reason for coming here was the Drummond Mortuary Chapel. The church is over one thousand years old, it is small and a strange shape. In one corner of it is an extraordinary Victorian chapel, Henry Drummond who was Lord of the Manor and senior partner in Drummonds Bank,asked Pugin to design the chapel to commemorate the lives of Henry his first son who died aged sixteen in 1827, Malcolm his second son who died aged twenty one in 1842 and Arthur his third son who died aged twenty in 1843.
The chapel also contains the bodies of Henry, Henrietta his wife and their daughter Adelaide who died aged sixty five. |
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| This vivid transformation began in 1840, Pugin heightened the roof to make it steeper, he panelled the inside of it. He raised part of the floor to form an altar tomb, he put in an oak parclose screen and had the whole heavily decorated. The stained window glass is by Wailes and the decorations are by Thomas Earley. | 
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