NOTES ON DORSET " RESTORED " CHURCHES. 115 



the spire of Salisbury Cathedral. This assumption as to its 

 size is obviously absurd. But evidently the tower was 

 unable to bear the weight of the spire as well as that qf the 

 bells, and the damage done then, more especially to the 

 western wall of the tower, owing to the weight of the spire, 

 is still noticeable. This was the reason why the building of 

 the western tower as a bell tower was taken in hand in A.D. 

 1440 1460, so shortly after the spire had been erected. The 

 spire fell in 1600 and after its collapse the present high 

 parapet, with its large angle pinnacles, was erected in place 

 of the earlier one. The spire appears on the seal of the 

 Grammar School Governors, as it does in a map of the Ltorset 

 coast extending from Christchurch to Lyme Regis* which 

 was drawn and painted in the time of Henry VIII., on which 

 are figured the roofs and chimneys of some of the houses of 

 Wimborne and rising above them the spire ot the Minster. 



CANFORD. (Hutchins, III. p. 286, D.F.C. Vol. X., pp. 

 xxvii., xxviii., and 146 152. 



This interesting church was restored in 1876, when it was 

 extended westwards, and the west end (the lights of which, 

 however, have more the character of an east window than 

 of a west one) was built. At the same time the roof, having 

 the feature, very unusual to a Norman church, of sky lights, 

 was put on. 



The marble slab, mentioned on page 309 of Hutchins, on 

 which are the matrices of the two effigies of the (unknown) 

 knight and lady, haa been removed from the N.E. corner of 

 the chancel to the exterior of the church, where it lies outside 

 the south choir aisle. 



The gravestone of Matthew Wasse, who was Vicar of the 

 parish from 1738 to 1776, has been removed from the chapel 

 and also placed outside the church, where it may be found 

 near the south aisle and just to the west of the east buttress. 

 (Cf. Hutchins, Vol. III. p. 310). 



* Brit. Mus. Cottonian M.S., Aug. I., Vol. I., Nos. 31-33. 



