Ancient 



Brasses of Dorset* 



By W. de C. PRIDEAUX, F.S.A. 



PART 10. 

 FLEET OLD CHURCH, HOLY TRINITY. 



REPRODUCTIONS of the Memorial Brasses at 

 Fleet, from excellent direct photographs 

 by our President, appear opposite page 55, 

 in the Field Club Proceedings for 1898, 

 illustrating an article by the B-ev. W. 

 Miles Barnes on Fleet Old Church and its 

 Brasses. 



These photographs show the greater 

 part of the brasses clearly, representing 

 them much as they appear to-day, plainly showing the 

 tarnish of Time's fingers spreading from their edges, and, to 

 the contemplative eye, are superior to the mechanical, but 

 necessary, black and white reproduction. 



Although these memorials are in a church ruined in the 

 " Outrage " of 1824 and unused, except for occasional burial 



