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SS Peter & Paul's Abbey Church (East Window), Dorchester
In the south aisle was an amazingly large corbel on one of the piers, unfortunately for us obscured with a floral decoration (a wedding was imminent), depicting monks being awoken by the devil sounding his horn, and a small but ornate lead font with seated figures under norman arcading. I liked the nearby epitaph to the 26 year-old Mrs Sarah Fletcher (d.1799) who “when nerves were too delicately spun to bear the rude shakes and jostlings which we meet with in this transitory world, Nature gave way, She sunk and died a martyr to excessive sensibilty.” (Commentary provided by Phil Draper) |
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