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armour, in general not such as were intended to or could be actually 



worn. These formed the funeral achievements of 



individuals of a greater or less degree of rank, and were borne by 

 the heralds at funerals, which were formerly, especially during the 

 16th or 17th centuries, conducted with much secular pomp, and 

 marshalled by one or more of the heralds in accordance with certain 

 rules, differing with regard to the status or rank of each individual 

 whose funeral was thus performed." (" Companion to Gothic 

 Architecture Bloxam.") 



PROBABLE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH AS KEVEALED IN ITS 

 STONES : The original church of Winterborne Came was built in 

 the 13th century. Of this church there are still portions of the 

 walls, the window arch and inner splays of the east window, the 

 base and pedestal of the font. In the 14th century the north and 

 south doorways and the north chancel window were added, and in 

 the 15th century the Perpendicular additions to the church and the 

 rood screen. The rood screen must have been dismantled, and the 

 text written across it, circa 1561. In the October of that year the 

 Church Commissioners of Queen Elizabeth ordered that the rood 

 lofts should be taken down ; the screens themselves, with the 

 addition of a crest in the place of the lofts, were to remain to serve 

 as a partition between the chancel and nave. This order appears 

 to have been promptly carried out, for in the churchwardens' 

 accounts of St. Helen's, Abingdon, which were reprinted in the 

 first volume of " Archa3ologia," is the entry under the year 

 1561 : "To the carpenter and others for taking down the roode 

 lofte, and stopping the holes in the wall where the joices stoode, 

 15s. 8d. To the peynter for writing the Scripture where the roode 

 lofte stoode and overthwarte the same isle, 3s. 4d." 



10. WINTERBORNE FARRINGDON. 



Farringdon, now united to Came, was an ancient village ; from 

 the dedication to St. German it is probable that' a church existed 

 here in British times ; of the later church only the east end, 

 which is of 14th century work, now remains. Hutchins states 



