. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . pitsof stalls were partly uncovered, and showed masonryof two dates, the older of which contained some re-used12th-century stones, and was set against the bases ofthe south arcade in a way which showed that it wasof later date than the arcade. The present quire fittings are entirely modern,except that the screen set in the east arch of thecrossing contains in its upper part some 14th-centurydetail, consisting of a row of open trefoils inclosingsmall heads, with cresting above. It seems to havestood in the north transept, separating the parishcha
. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . pitsof stalls were partly uncovered, and showed masonryof two dates, the older of which contained some re-used12th-century stones, and was set against the bases ofthe south arcade in a way which showed that it wasof later date than the arcade. The present quire fittings are entirely modern,except that the screen set in the east arch of thecrossing contains in its upper part some 14th-centurydetail, consisting of a row of open trefoils inclosingsmall heads, with cresting above. It seems to havestood in the north transept, separating the parishchancel from the monastic church, but was movedthence to the west end of the nave, where early inthe last century an organ gallery stood. After this itwas taken down and stowed away in the navetriforium, but finally unearthed by Mr. Berthon,the late vicar, and set up about 1880 in its presentposition, a new lower part being made to match theold work. In the north aisle of the presbytery is a largewooden frame filled with upright boarding, and 466. KINGS SOMBORNE HUNDRED having a ledge at the foot, which seems to have beenthe reredos of an altar. It is painted in two tiers,the upper having a row of nine saints, St. Jerome,St. Francis and St. Sebastian on the right, St. Rock,and two saints of doubtful identity on the left, andin the middle a Benedictine abbess, perhaps , between a bishop and a Benedictine lower tier shows the Resurrection of our stands between two pairs of soldiers, beyond whomare two angels censing, and in the right hand cornerthe kneeling figure of a Benedictine abbess, holdinga scroll with surrexit dominus de sepulcro. Behindthe figures is painted drapery in alternate stripes ofred and green, and the background of the upper tieris red, with pilasters in gold between the figures ofmarked Renaissance design, showing that the wholecan be little, if at all, earlier than 1530. A smallfigure of a woman in secular dress, with a kennelhead-dr
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