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Sandford, Dorset OS Grid Ref: ST6220
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The church is of the 13th to 15 centuries although its interior was much restored in the 19th century - it has a section of 15th century screen across the tower arch. The font dates from the 13th century and there are some 15th century windows. There is a finely panelled roof in the chapel.
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with his two wives and eleven children. Seven of them kneel in their black gowns behind their parents and the others,
in red swaddling clothes, lie behind their mother
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The inscription on the memmorial reads;-
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HEERE LYETH T BODY OF WILLIAM KNOYLE OF SANTFORT ARCAS ESQR, HEE WAS FERST MARIED TO FILLIP, DAVGHTER OF ROBERT MORGANE, OF MAPERTON, IN YE CO: OF DORSET ESQR, BY WHOME HEE HAD YSSVE 4 CHILDREN & BEE DEAD, HEE WAS SECONDLY MARIED TO GRACE CLAVELL, DAVGHTER OF LO: CLAVELL, OF BARSTONE IN YE CO: OF DORSET ESQR, BY WHOME HEE HAD YSSVE 3 SONS, & 4 DAVGHTERS, HEE DIED YE 21 OF IAN: 1607 IN Y 49 YEARE OF HIS AGE |
In the churchyard there is the stump of a standing cross and, on the steep bank below the tower, the trunk of an ancient yew tree. The church possess a mass dial.
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