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SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
Excavations at the Church of St John the Evangelist, Coulsdon
LESLEY L KETTERINGHAM
This report describes an excavation carried out when the wooden floor of the church had to be replaced. The present fabric is almost entirely 13th century and, according to the VCH, was the work of Chertsey Abbey in 1250. No evidence of a Saxon church was found in the area available for examination. There was a possible 12th century foundation if the construction at right angles to the north wall was the base of a narrow, thick-walled chancel arch. The foundations were laid down when the field was level with the land outside the churchyard wall. The first church, small, two-celled, possibly with an apse though it was not possible to establish this, had a beaten earth floor, renewed two or three times. A major re-building took place at about 1250 when the old chancel arch was removed, part of the south wall thinned and plastered and a blind arcade added on each side.
