sentences:  .The Atwood family were benefactors to the Sanderstead Parish Church which was adjacent to their home, and John Atwood (Atwodde) and his wife, Denys, have a brass plaque in the church dated 1525.John’s grand son, Nicholas Wood-Atwood, who died in 1586, is identified as “"of Sandersted Corte who served quene Elizabeth sens the second yearr of her rayne"” on his brass in the church .