116 NOTES ON DORSET " RESTORED " CHURCHES. 



The following monuments mentioned by Hutchins appear 

 to be lost : 



The brass of Richard Cheke. (p. 39) 



The portrait of an ecclesiastic, which formerly was situ- 

 ated at the entrance of the chancel, (p. 310) 



The Parish Register, which, according to Hutchins, com- 

 menced in 1589, now commences in the year 1655. 



CRANBORNE. (Hutchins, III. p. 375, D.F.C. Vol. VIII. 

 pp. xl. and 2937; and Vol. XXIII. pp. xxxv. xxxvi.). 



The chancel of this most interesting church was rebuilt 

 in 1876. Three frescoes were discovered above the arches 

 in the nave in 1898. The subjects are apparently St. 

 Christopher ; The Tree of life, with Eve at the foot and the 

 Blessed Virgin, crowned, at the top ; Our Lord in Glory, 

 adored by saints and angels. They are presumably of late 

 14th century or early 15th century workmanship. 



During the restoration of 1855 the rood screen was 

 destroyed, the old chancel and the porch with watching 

 chamber above were pulled down, and the benches, some 

 of which bore the date 1581, removed. 



The Stillingfleet and Hooper monuments have been re- 

 moved from the chancel to the west end of the church. 



Nothing is now known of the whereabouts of the ' fragments 

 of the effigy of a knight (unknown) habited in armour of ring 

 mail,' which Dr. Smart* says was discovered at the re- 

 building of the chancel in 1875, and which he conjectures 

 to have been placed here by Robert Earl of Gloucester, the 

 illegitimate son of Henry I., apparently to commemmorate 

 his father-in-law, Robert Fitz-Hamon. 



Near to the pulpit is a photograph of the church, prior to 

 the alterations of 1875-6. 



Dorset Field Club Proceedings, Vol. VIII., p. 34. 



