218 ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 



Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society, Vol. V., 

 part 7. By his kind permission I am able to reproduce 

 portions of the Savill and Fowler brasses. The shields of the 

 former and the canopy of the latter I do not give. The 

 Savill brasses of late 15th Century work are now, after careful 

 examination, again on their original slab, 72 by 30 inches, 

 and consist of 2 effigies 21 inches in height, a foot inscription 

 of 27 by 4J inches, and two shields of arms 7J by 5J inches. 

 All of these are palimpsests. 



" The figure of Henry Savill bears on the reverse a fine 

 early figure of a priest in cassock, surplice, almuce, and 

 cope. The orphreys of the cope are ornamented with 

 quatrefoils and fylfots alternately in lozenges, the morse 

 being similarly ornamented. The figure, except for the 

 head, is almost complete, and may be dated circa 1360-70. 

 On the reverse of Margaret Savill is another almost complete 

 figure, only lacking a head and portions of the outer garment. 

 It represents an ecclesiastic in cassock, surplice with large 

 full sleeves, and a plain mantle, possibly the mantle of some 

 brotherhood, as it is fastened across the chest by a cord, 

 from which hangs another cord, terminating in a cross with 

 a most complicated and elaborate device below, which may 

 be the badge of some religious order or brotherhood. The 

 figure is of late date, apparently of the first quarter of the 

 sixteenth century." 



On the reverse of Robert Fowler and his wife, Alice, 1540, 

 is a palimpsest of exceptional interest. 



" The shield over the heads of the figures is cut from the 

 top right-hand corner of a large early Fourteenth Century 

 brass. This shows finely-designed canopy work, a portion of 

 a main arch with large-leaved crockets above and cusps filled 

 with foliage below ; a portion of an entablature ornamented 

 with large quatrefoils in circles, and in the corner between 

 the main arch and the entablature a circle enclosing rich 

 tracery, something after the fashion of a rose window. In 

 the right-hand corner is a large figure of an angel, nimbed and 

 vested in albe and cope, holding in his left hand an incense 



