70 CHURCHES IN THE RURAL DEANERY Of 1 DORCHESTER. 



The Garter and motto and some of the grounds are original ; 

 the remainder is modern work by the painter of the east window. 

 "With respect to the date of this ancient glass, Mr. T. F. 

 Kirby, Bursar* of Winchester College, writes : " The church 

 of Bradford Peverell was one of the churches belonging to 

 Winchester College which they had to repair, if not to rebuild, 

 soon after they came into possession of it, and the coat of 



arms of their founder, William of Wykeham 



now in the north window of the nave, was no doubt put in to 

 commemorate the fact of this restoration or rebuilding." The 

 window, according to Hutchins, originally had the words " William 

 Wykham, Churche Patron," beneath the Wykeham arms, which 

 seems to imply that the glass was inserted by Wykeham himself 

 before he presented the tithes of the church to his new 

 College of S. Mary, at Winchester, in 1395. This is the more 

 likely because he was a patron of the glass painter, and took such 

 special interest in that kind of decoration that he bequeathed a 

 sum of money for the glazing of windows in Winchester Cathedral ; 

 but, as Mr. Kirby points out that the church was repaired (the 

 chancel, from the style of the architecture, could not have been 

 rebuilt at this time) shortly after Winchester College came into 

 possession of it, it is possible that the glass was put in at that time ; 

 the difference in the dates would be trifling. 



