40 CHURCHES IN THE RURAL DEANERY OP DORCHESTER. 



with great solemnity. The construction is thus described in a 

 document of the period. The sepulchre in question belonged to 

 St. Mary Kedcliffe, Bristol : * Item, that Maister Canyne had 

 delivered this 4th day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1470, to 

 Maister Nicholas Fetters, vicar of St. Mary Redcliffe, Moses 

 Conterin, Philip Bartholomew, Procurators of St. Mary Kedcliffe 

 aforesaid, a new sepulchre gilt with golde and a civer thereto. 

 Item, an image of God Almighty, rising out of the same sepulchre 

 with all the ordinance that longeth thereto, that is to say, a lathe 

 made of timber and the iron work thereto. Item, thereto longeth 

 heaven made of timber and stayned clothes. Item, Hell made of 

 timber thereto, with Divils to the number of 13. Item, 4 knights 

 armed, keeping the sepulchre with their weapons in their hands ; 

 that is to say 2 axes and 2 spears, with 2 paves (i.e. shields). 

 Item, 4 payr of angel wings, for 4 angels made of timber and well 

 painted. Item, the Fadre, the Crowne and Visage, the ball with a 

 cross upon it, well gilt with fine gould. Item, the Holy Ghost 

 coming out of heaven into the sepulchre. Item, longeth to the 

 4 angels, 4 chevelures (i.e. perukes).' " 



2. DORCHESTER HOLY TRINITY. 



Modern, built 1876. The only remains of the old church are a 

 font now in the rectory garden, the basin of Ham Hill stone, dated 

 1662 ; the base of the 14th century style, the intermediate member 

 between the two which does not belong to the font may be of 15th 

 century date. 



OLD PARISH CHEST in the vestry, with three locks and straps, 

 and a handle at each end ; it is dated 1683. 



3. ALL SAINTS'. 



Modern. Rebuilt in 1845. In the porch under the tower is a 

 high tomb upon which is a recumbent figure clad in a gown with 

 an Elizabethan ruff, the effigy of Matthew Chubb, who was bailiff 

 of the town in 1590, and member for the town in the Parliament 

 held in the first year of King James I. This effigy was removed 



