250 iSotes on the Churches in the Neighbourhood of IVarminder. 



three spandrils is a smaller circle containing a triangle — the whole 

 contained within the label mould. (Although this is an early 

 developement of tracery in a small parish Church, the well-known 

 wheel window in Lincoln Cathedral (1^00) is an earlier example 

 still.) In the south wall is a group of three recessed sedilia and 

 piscina — the former with seats stepped up towards the east; these 

 recesses have trefoil arches springing at the same level, and curious 

 label-canopies over; the arch moulds are carried down the mullions 

 and the sedilia jamb and stop on moulded bases ; on the east side of 

 the piscina they are stopped by a carved head. The bowl of the 

 piscina has been cut away. 



On the outside the work of this chapel is very rich, well-designed, 

 and good, the buttresses are gabled with moulded weatherings and 

 a double splayed base with a roll member above it ; the upper splay 

 is carried round the walls and drops at the buttresses to admit of 

 the roll member. 



In the centre of the chapel stands an altar-tomb of rich design in 

 Tisbury stone; this has seven panels on each side, two at the west 

 end, and a larger one at the east end, each of which has a pedestal 

 with dowel-hole for a figure, and there are traces of figures having 

 been fixed here, but all are now missing. These figures may have 

 been of marble or alabaster, so as to be richer than the body of the 

 tomb, and they, as well as the ground of the panels, wei'e coloured. 

 Mr. Fane records that this tomb is hollowed out to receive a coffin 

 4ft. 11 in. long — probably that of a female or child. The tomb is 

 said to have contained the body of the last of the GifFard family — 

 Lady Margaret — who died in the reign of Edward III., and at 

 whose death the whole of the estates passed to the Crown, but it is 

 somewhat earlier in style. 



In the floor of the chapel is a Purbeck slab 10ft. by 4ft., with 

 the matrix of a magnificent brass with a single figure, the head 

 resting on a cushion and surmounted by a canopy ; at the sides were 

 shields and the whole was surrounded by a border. Both Sir R. C. 

 Hoare and Mr. Fane speak of this as being in the north transept; 

 the latter relates that on removing this stone in 1853 a stone coffin 

 was found containing a nearly perfect skeleton with the skull placed 



