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as Saxon days, and the greater 

 chancel are of Saxon rubble, 

 deserves the attention of those 



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portion of the walls of the present 

 The problem is interesting and 

 who can speak as experts. 



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 nf iljB Work of tlje ^ssiott. 



By E. Dodshon, LL.B. 



PLATE III., NO. 2. 



Bingham's Melcombe is probably the oldest house of its kind 

 in the County of Dorset, having belonged for six centuries to 

 the Binghams who, with few intermissions, resided in it, without 

 a break in the male succession, from about 1250 until the late 

 Mr. R. Boswortb. Smith acquired it. During the great Civil 

 War it was the headquarters of the Parliamentary forces in the 

 County of Dorset. The photograph shows the Courtyard and 

 Gable. 



PLATE IV., NOS. 1 & 2. 



Doorway in West Side of Tower, Corfe Castle Church 

 (No. 1). — A Tudor doorway under a square label, the spandrels 

 filled on each side with tracery and a shield ; the shield on the 

 North is sculptured in a recumbent position. On each side of 

 the doorway is a tabernacled niche supported by sculptured busts. 

 The Church, with the exception of the Tower, was re-built in 

 i860. The other plate (No. 2), shows a child's stone coffin and 

 stonework from the old Church. 



PLATE IV., NO. 3. 

 Piirbeck Marble Font, Kinson Church, Dorset. 



PLATE IV., NO. 4. 

 The Font at Toner's Puddle (Pydel or Piddle) Dorset. — 

 This has been described as a fine Norman Font with interlacing* 

 arches and nail-head ornaments, the character of its work bearing 

 a considerable resemblance to that of Bere Regis. The circum- 

 ference of the Font is slightly asymmetrical. The little Church 

 was anciently a Chapel of Ease to Bere Regis. The place takes 

 its name from the ancient Lords of the Manor, the Toners. In 

 27, Edward I., the Lord of the Manor was Henry Tonere. 



