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and two women, who were selected by the Lord of the Manor of 

 Kingston Laeey. 



A great addition was made to the endowment of this Charity by 

 the Rev. William Stone, Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, and 

 one of the ministers and officials of the Minster, who in the year 

 1685 left certain lands and tenements in the Parish of Wimborne, 

 the income from which was to be employed for the use and 

 benefit of the almsmen only, who should live in St. Margaret's 

 Hospital. 



At the present time there are nine separate tenements connected 

 with the Charity ; three of these are occupied by single men, four 

 by single women, and two by old married couples. The occupier 

 of each receives the sum of 1 12s. Od. a month. 



The Chapel of St. Margaret will be found to possess many 

 points of interest. The dimensions at the present time are length 

 38 feet, width 13 feet. The walls are built principally with native 

 brown heath stone, so much of which was used in the oldest parts 

 of the Minster, and are of considerable thickness and of excellent 

 construction. There are signs of a plinth on the south side, and 

 the wall on this side is pierced with two windows, one of them a 

 very early lancet, probably of the 13th century, and within the 

 altar rails is a two-light window of early Geometric design. 



The two-light window opposite to it on the north side appears to 

 be of a later period. 



There is a door on the north side about midway, intended 

 probably for the use of visitors or inhabitants of the town, and at 

 the west end of the Chapel there was a passage through from 

 north to south ; the door, however, on the south side is now 

 walled up. 



Both the upper and the lower rooms of the tenement of the west 

 end of the Chapel show signs of having been at one time connected 

 directly with it by openings ; this may have been the abode of the 

 Chantry Priest. The upper room was at one time approached 

 from the outside ; the opening, now walled up, can be seen on the 

 west side of the north passage door. 



