212 THE CHURCH OF WOOTTOK GLAKVILLB. 



Glanville, lord of Glanvilles Wootton and of FofTordeston, 1330, 

 married Sibyll, foundress of the chantry, who presented the first 

 chaplain 3rd March, 1344. Her son, John ds Glanville, was 

 the last owner of the name, and presented to the Rectory in 1350, 

 and to the chantry in 1396-7, and left a daughter and heir, Joan, 

 married to Robert More, of Marnhull, whose daughter, Edith, 

 carried the estate to the Newburghs, of East Lulworth, in 1422. 

 (See the Records of the Anglo-Norman House of Glanville, by 

 W. U. S. Glanville-Richards, 1882.) 



The chapel of this chantry, measuring internally 21 ft. 4in. by 

 1 3ft. 8in., is a beautiful specimen of flint work with Ham stone 

 dressings, and is lighted with three large Decorated windows, the 

 tracery of each being of different design. Beneath the two 

 southern windows are arched recesses, in one of which a recum- 

 b'ent effigy is now placed. Below the east window is the ancient 

 altar slab, taken from the floor, repaired, and replaced in its old 

 position, but on new supports, in 1875-6. On each side are 

 brackets for statues, long since removed ; on the south side a 

 piscina with shelf, which has been repaired, and on the north 

 the remarkable double hagioscope. On two sides of the chapel 

 a stone bench runs at the foot of the wall. The whole is con- 

 nected with the nave of the parish church by a small doorway, 

 in which the door staples still remain, and a wide spreading 

 arch. Below this arch rested the recumbent effigy already men- 

 tioned. To quote the account of it in The Gentleman's Magazine, 

 1817 : " Under the arch which separates this chapel from the 

 body of the church is a stone coffin with the effigy of a man in a 

 loose dress, belted, a sword by his left side, and a lion or dog 

 broken off at his feet; length, when perfect, about 5ft. join. 

 From a piece of the lid being broken off, it appears that the 

 coffin was a plain stone chest." (Vol. for 1817, pt. ii., pp. 297-8.) 



It may be noticed that the figure, of Ham stone, whose head, 

 with long flowing hair, rests on a cushion, while the hands are 

 folded in prayer, is dressed in a short tunic, gathered in at the 

 waist, the sleeves also being somewhat short. Over this is a 

 hood, with the peak swung round on the right shoulder. The 





