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out accurately what the design was. The face has flaked off in various 

 parts from exposure to the weather, but there are distinct indications of 

 a double cross. In the floor of the church there will be seen various 

 coffin slabs of Purbeck stone, whole or in fragments, one or two with 

 parts of a cross incised on them. They may have covered the bodies of 

 members of the religious community who were buried here. There is a 

 small brass to the memory of Jobn Karrant, probably a chaplain of the 

 abbey, but the original position of it is now unknown. The inscription 

 is 



" Hie jacet dns Johes Karrant cujus anime p'p'iciet' de' Amen." 

 There is a curious history attached to this brass. It was for some years 

 in the collection of antiquities belonging to the late Mr. Burden, of 

 Blandford, and at his death it was sold, along with the rest of the 

 collection, to the trustees of the British Museum. It was, however, 

 kindly returned by them at the request of the incumbent of Tarrant 

 Crawfoid. 



THE ABBEY BARN. The measurements of the large barn inside are : 

 Length, 59ft. ; width, 29ft. Gins. ; height to wall plate, 9ft. 9ins. The 

 wall at the north end is evidently the original wall, for a corner buttress 

 outside shows that the building could not have been continued further in 

 that direction. At the south end a narrower building seems to have con- 

 tinued, for the east wall is continuous, and the buttresses are evidently 

 of the same date throughout. On the west side the buttresses continue 

 only the length of the barn. The roof of half the barn is a very fine 

 feature ; the rest was displaced Avhen the roof at the weather end was 

 renewed. Other barns, the remains of two of which are considerable, 

 seem to be of the latter part of the 13th or 14th centuries, a period when 

 the abbey largely increased in wealth. The abbey is said in Hutchins's 

 to have been dedicated to Saint Mary and All Saints. The church is 

 dedicated to S. Mary. Sir Robert Rous, by his will dated 1838, gave, 

 among other bequests, money for four priests celebrating at the altar 

 near the body of S. Richard in Tarrant. The lines of the foundations of 

 the tibbey chapel can be clearly seen when the turf is very dry. The 

 dimensions of it were 120ft. by 25ft." 



On leaving Tarrant Crawford the party drove past Spettisbury Rings 



Iind Blandford St. Mary to the Down House, where they had been invited 

 o tea by Sir William and Lady Marriott. Time only permitted a slight 

 nspection of the many treasures contained in the house, books, china, 

 fcc., and of the gardens and orchids. The members left at 4.30 to catch 

 rains at Blandford station. 

 NEW MEMBERS. None were elected. 



