Outside the church to the west of the south porch

First recorded in present location by Leveson Gower 1893; no positive support for conjecture (Lane, pers. comm.) that it originally came from Tandridge Priory near-by

St Peter

Heavily worn

It is rectangular and coped, the coping displaced slightly to the left. On the flattened ridge is the low relief, parallel-sided vertical limb of a Latin cross. The head is co-terminus with the head of the stone, the foot is heavily damaged. The square ends of the expanding lateral arms terminate short of the edges of the stone.

Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date).

The cover can only be dated by virtue of the general comparisons which can be drawn with the material from Oxted and Titsey in Surrey. Most of these grave-covers are decorated with simple Latin crosses, as at Oxted (Ills. 235–6), but one of the pieces from Titsey (no. 4; Ill. 255) employs the bifurcated mid-rib with a cross-bar at the point of bifurcation. This links it directly with the eleventh-century Sussex examples from Stedham, Cocking, and Steyning, and suggests a similar date for the whole group of Surrey covers.

Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date in eleventh century

Leveson Gower 1893, 31, fig. C; Johnston 1913, 67; Cox and Johnston 1935, 168; Tweddle 1986b, i, 90, ii, 496 - 7, iii, pl. 107a