44 THE LATE REV. C. W. H. DICKER, R.D. 



" door arch. The doors one finds in village churches of the 

 " 12th Century are very much narrower, and the imposts 

 " (with ' nail-head ' ornament) look exactly like those oi a 

 " tj^pical chancel arch of the period. I have seen some 

 " chancel arches about that width, though now removed from 

 " their old position. 



" The Font seems to me a piece of undoubted Early English 

 " Avork. Its bit of foliage and mouldings are quite of the 

 " Early 13th Century style. It is not mentioned in Dr. 

 " Cox's list of Dorset Fonts. — With kind regards, yours very 

 " truly, C. W. H. Dicker." 



The above, then, being the subject A\hich so immediately 

 preceded Mr. Dicker's untimely decease, has, I think, a 

 melancholy though real interest for us all ; I therefore 

 presume to make a few remarks upon it. It Avill be noted 

 that the idea of Bloxworth Church Porch being Norman is 

 quite given up ; and whether the opinion that the architect 

 of it adopted, in his design, the course Mr. Dicker mentions, I 

 must leave to experts ; but I must remark that there is no 

 proof of there ever having been a porch to the original Norman 

 building. The opinion that the " doorway " (which is 

 undoubtedly Norman) is the Chancel Arch of the original 

 Norman church I am hardly qualified to criticise. It would 

 have been most interesting and useful to us if Mr. Dicker had 

 added to his note upon this point the names of the churches 

 where he had seen some similar arches removed from their 

 original positions, and so become " doorways." I have noted 

 on the plate accompanying this paper the exact dimensions 

 of the doorway as it now stands. My own opinion is certainly 

 against the idea that it formed the chancel-arch of the original 

 church. 



With respect to Mr. Dicker's opinion that the Font is an 

 undoubted " Early English " work, I cannot say that I am 

 convinced upon this point. I have always thought it to be 

 partly Jacobean, mixed with some of the materials of an 

 original Norman Font ; but I do not profess to be an expert 

 on such points. I will only say that the Font has been 



