102 NOTES ON DORSET " EESTOEED " CHUECHES. 



NETHEEBUEY. (Hutchins, II. pp. 104 and 142). 



The S. porch was built in 1848. The galleries were 

 removed in 1850. The gravestones of John Strode, of Parnham 

 (1620), on the chancel floor, and of John Gollop (1758) in the 

 W. aisle, are now missing. In 1850 frescoes were found on 

 the spandrils of the nave arches ; on the one side the seven 

 corporal works of mercy, and on the other the seven deadly 

 sins. A sketch of them was forwarded to the Cambridge 

 Ecclesiological Society ; but the frescoes were not preserved. 

 A fresco of a winged angel was also found on the chancel 

 arch. 



SOUTH PEEEOTT. (Hutchins, II. p. 164). 



The church was restored in 1907 (Architect, Mr. South- 

 worth Parker, of Plymouth), when the W. gallery was removed, 

 the E. window inserted in the chancel, and the window in 

 the N. wall of the chancel restored. In opening a doorway 

 in the wall of the S. transept, an arch of late 15th century 

 workmanship was found. This proved the former existence 

 of a chantry on the S. of the chancel, alluded to by John 

 Bangor Russell, of Beaminster, who, in a MS. book written 

 by him about the year 1780, says : " On the south side of 

 the Chancel was formerly a little Isle, built perhaps for a 

 Chantry, which was taken down about 70 or 80 years ago." 



STOKE ABBOTT. (Hutchins, II. p. 147). 



The church was restored in 1877 (Architect, Mr. James 

 P. St. Aubyn, of London), when the erection of the N. aisle 

 brought to light some interesting features and led to the 

 following conclusions : That the chancel walls were early 

 Norman and of the same date as the font. A Norman window 

 was found in the chancel ; the early English alterations came 

 later (seen in the lancets inserted in the chancel and in the 

 N. wall of the nave). During the 1877 restoration fragments 



