XXXIX. 



OSMINGTON MEETING. 



THE FIRST SUMMER MEETING of the Club was held at 

 Osmington Mills on Tuesday, June 28th. There was a good 

 attendance of members, and the day was perfect for an outdoor 

 meeting. Most of the members drove from Weymouth Station ; 

 all met at 



OSMINGTON CHURCH, 



about 11.30, where they were received by the Vicar, the Rev. J. 

 F. Jones, who conducted them over the church. He called 

 especial attention to the ancient monument on the north side of 

 jhe chancel, rudely carved with the Arms of Wareham (including 

 three scallop shells, the badge of the Palmers), and with a 

 quaint didactic inscription, in which some moralist of old, 

 musing over the mystery of human life, thus described it : 



Man's life. 



Mau is a glas : life is a water : thus weakly walled about : sinne brings 

 in death : death breakes the glass : so runs the water out : finis. 



Mr. JONES stated that Sir James Philipps, son of the Vicar of 

 that parish for 40 years, and Vicar at the time that the church 

 was built, told him six or eight months ago that this monument, 

 with its quaint inscription and rude carving, was replaced in the 

 rebuilt church in exactly the same position in which it was 

 found in the old church. 



Mr. W. MILES BARNES stated that 



the only portions of the ancient church remaining were the north arcade, the 

 chancel arch, and the font. The stonework of the pillars had been refaced, but 

 the early tooling could still be seen in places. The pillars of the chancel arch 

 were Transition Norman ; the head was later, unless the whole was Transition 

 Norman, which was possible. The font was generally described as Norman, but 

 it was of later date ; it was 13th century, but so early in the style that it might be 

 described as Transitional. 



Leaving the church, the party were guided by the Vicar to the 

 fragment of an ancient building, with a doorway opening into 

 the churchyard. In its walls were mullioned windows shrouded 



