THE VALLEY OF WINTERBOUBNE. xli. 



The PRESIDENT read a letter from Mr. W. de C. Prideaux, of Weymouth, 

 the indefatigable student of Dorset brasses, calling attention to the fact that 

 the inscription was the same as that of the brass given by Hutchins as being 

 in the neighbouring church of Winterbourne Zelston to the memory of one 

 Brygge. It would be strange if there was a Rector named Brygge in one 

 parish and a Rector named Trygge in an adjoining one. Mr. RICHARDSON, 

 in returning thanks to the Rector, congratulated him on his rescue of this 

 interesting brass. 



Mrs. Rogers, of the Manor House, had kindly allowed the Club to visit this 

 picturesque and pleasantly secluded residence, which, one would judge by 

 the ridges in the adjoining fields, was originally moated. The house has a 

 typical Tudor doorway, and outside this a handsome Jacobean portico has 

 been erected, with an ornate superstructure in the classic Renaissance style, 

 and of the seventeenth century. Mr. BARTEI.OT mentioned that this was the 

 old house of the Anketyls, and he called attention inside to a Concordance of 

 the Scriptures published by " S. N." of Cambridge in the year 1672 before 

 Cruden's. 



STURMINSTER MARSHALL. 



The last church visited was that of St. Mary, Sturminster 

 Marshall, where the members were confronted with a Norman 

 arcade with massive square piers, rudely chamfered, and the 

 arches adorned with a later escalloping in plaster. 



Here the Club were received courteously by the Rev. James Cross, who has 

 been Vicar for 33 years, and who gave them a detailed account of the church 

 and everything of interest that it contains. The nave and north aisle, he said, 

 were supposed to be of the time of King John. In the tower are four bells, 

 one of the fourteenth and another of the fifteenth century. Mr. Cross 

 announced with satisfaction that he had succeeded in completing a collection 

 of portraits of previous vicars from 1745 to the present time. In the church- 

 yard the visitors observed with interest the base and shaft of the old cross, and, 

 near by, the mutilated stone coffin. 



Driving on to the Rectory, the party were refreshed with tea at the hospitable 

 invitation of the Rector, who also exhibited a chalice, which, he said, was 

 thought to be the latest piece of pre -Reformation Communion plate known. 



A short business meeting was held, in the course of which 

 one new member was elected. 



The PRESIDENT having thanked Mr. Cross heartily for his 

 kind services and much appreciated hospitality, the carriages 

 started on the return drive to Blandford. 



