CROSS-LEGGED EFFIGIES IN DORSET. 



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of this family might be a benefactor, or do some eminent service 

 to the Abbey, and be buried here. It is observable that these 

 very arms are still in the Abbey hall."- 



Traces of these Latimers are not uncommon in the records of 

 the county, and branches of them held the Manors of Winter- 

 borne Whitchurch, Woodford-Belet, and Dewlish ; and one, 

 Nicholas Latimer, held a knight-fee jointly with John Fauntleroy 

 from the Bishop of Sherborne. 



The other effigy referred to was in Frampton Church, and it 

 may have disappeared when the chancel was rebuilt in 1747-8. 

 Hutchins says " In a small arch in the wall is a little image, 

 much defaced, lying on its back, which is, perhaps, a memorial 

 of William Coker . . . there being a similar image at 

 Mappowder." From this statement regarding the similarity of 

 this image to the one at Mappowder we may fairly assume this 

 figure at Frampton to have been cross-legged. 



