Lovely images - and fascinating details in those old memorials.
Frampton, a few miles from Dorchester, is a fairly small village, but I think once manorial, as indeed suggested by the tablet and heraldic crest on the tower.
@devonman Yes, it is a lovely village, though it's never been on any of my regular routes.
The script on the gravestone with the face looks Mediaeval but I wonder if that's a matter of style, and wonder what is its real age. Even if the churchyard is Mediaeval, any gravestones more than a few centuries old, probably cut from Portland Stone or similar, would most likely have weathered into illegibility long ago
@devonman Same anywhere really. Depending on the stone used and the depth of the letter-cutting, the headstones older than perhaps late 19C in my local churchyard are becoming largely unreadable but some still show faint 17C dates. The immediate area in front of the church has been levelled and turned into lawns but many of those stones are lined up against the boundary wall, so still visible. Others have found a new use, facing a retaining wall!
