112 NOTES ON DORSET "RESTORED" CHURCHES. 



SHILLINGSTON. (Hutchiw, III. p. 444, D.F.C. Vol. 



XXIV., pp Ixxii., Ixxiii.). 



In 1888 two galleries were removed from the interior ot 

 the tower ; one of them had been a singers' gallery. The N. 

 wall of the nave was pierced for arcading, and the N. aisle 

 and chancel were added. 



In 1903 the E. wall of the chancel was rebuilt ; the screen 

 was erected and roofs decorated. 



In 1888, two small and very early splayed windows were 

 opened high up in the N. wall of the nave and one in the S. 

 wall ; all are now carefully preserved. These relics were 

 also found : 



(1). A stone coffin under the N. chancel wall, where 

 Hutchins speaks of an altar tomb in 1842. 



(2). A piece of an altar slab, with one of the dedication 

 crosses. 



(3). A broken slab, showing the head of a man between 

 the sun and a crescent moon. 



(4). Parts of two tomb slabs with crosses on them. 



These are all carefully preserved in the tower. 



Two gargoyles are said to have been removed from the 

 tower in 1888, and the door in the S. chancel wal! was blocked 

 up. 



Recently a large squared stone, a portion of an early 

 English column, and a collection of flints were found by the 

 sexton when digging a grave in front of the tower. 



WlNTERBOURNE STICKLAND. (HutcMnS, I. p. 331). 



The church was restored in 1892 (Architect, Mr. W. J. 

 Fletcher, of Wimborne), when the wagon-headed roof of the 

 chancel was renewed, the west vdndow opened out by the 

 removal of the gallery, the tower roof renewed, the Jacobean 

 pulpit lowered, and the oak screen between the chancel and 

 Skinner mausoleum renovated, The old Holy Table is now 

 in the vestry. 



