THE CHURCH SCREENS OF DORSET. 73 



SANDFORD ORCAS. 



Until 1896 this church was in Somerset. It retains in the 

 tower arch an excellent late Perpendicular screen, with the 

 doors intact, which is said to have come from Sherborne 

 Abbey. The base beam is modern, and the top beam is 

 disfigured by a clumsy modern cornice. It is framed up 

 with massive moulded standards. The wainscot has cusped 

 ogee heads breaking into foliage above, the whole being 

 contained beneath two cusped heads. The middle rail of 

 the screen is plain; but that of the doors has foliage. The 

 lights have narrow ogee heads with foliage above surmounted 

 by two trefoils. The cloorhead is level with the spring of 

 the screen lights, and is capped by ogee heads similar to 

 the rest. Below is a four-centred arch with cusped roundels 

 containing each a conventional flower in the spandrels. 

 The door lights have plain trefoiled heads. The west side 

 of the wainscot has ogee arches without foliage. 



SHERBORNE ALMSHOUSE CHAPEL. 



The chapel of the ancient hospital of St. John Evangelist 

 and St. John Baptist is divided from the ante-chapel by a 15th 

 century wooden screen. The doors remain. The upper part 

 of the lights has ogee heads, and the lower part below the 

 transom is solid. There is a good cornice on both sides with 

 trailing oak leaf. Over the ante-chapel is a gallery for the use 

 of the female inmates. The screen is not improved by having 

 the lights filled with appalling tinted glass. The gallery rail 

 is 17th century work. 



SPETTISBURY. 



In the modern convent chapel is preserved part of the base 

 of a painted 14th century screen which came from Whitford 

 Chapel in Devon. It is of rough and massive construction. 

 On the panels are four figures; Our Lady, St. Katharine, a 

 King and a Bishop. The background of the figures is 

 checkered. On the immtins is a rude floral design. The 

 figures stand on brackets like those at Hilton. Red is the 



