Attached to the church are some ancient chapels, including the Wickham Chantry, where lies Sir John Horsey, also Bishop Roger’s Chantry, with its beautiful Early English window. Sir Thomas Wyatt, the poet, Bishop Asser, tutor to Alfred the Great, more than one of the Saxon kings, and Abbot Clement (1163) (of whose tomb but a fragment remains in the north choir aisle) are interred in the cathedral church. The cloisters were on the north side of the church--the former dormitory is now used as a schoolroom. A portion of the refectory still remains, also the abbey barn and the abbey house--the latter being rebuilt after the Dissolution. CERNE (_Benedictine_) 987, Founded by Egelwaldus or Ethelwerdus--Dedicated to St Peter--Endowed by Ethelmer, Earl of Cornwall--15--, Dissolved. Annual revenue, £515 17s. 10. “St Augustine, the monk, after he had converted Kent, travelled with his companions over the rest of King Ethelbert’s dominions, which extended as far as the Northumbers, preaching the Gospel of Christ. And being in Dorsetshire, a great company of people offered themselves for baptism in a place where water was wanting, whereupon by miracle a fountain of water burst out of the ground, which was in the succeeding times called St Augustine’s Fountain. Here Edwaldus, brother of St Edmund the King and martyr, led a hermit’s life and died with a reputation of great sanctity”--(Dugdale’s _Monasticon_). These circumstances, according to Dugdale, led to the founding of the abbey of Cerne in 987. Other writers, however, hold the opinion that credit is due to the great Apostle of the Anglo-Saxons for an even earlier foundation. Only the gateway of this once magnificent abbey remains, and near it the well dedicated to St Augustine. The gateway--a large embattled structure--is in a good state of preservation, and even yet possesses some of its former dignity. When excavating on the site of the abbey church, a stone effigy of peculiar interest was found. It is 15th century work, representing a lady, of royal birth possibly, who once held the position of abbess in this monastic house. She carries a staff in her right hand and in her left she holds a book. Fragments of a leaden chalice and paten and encaustic tiles, chiefly of Perpendicular work, have also been found. The present abbey house has been built from the remains of the abbey.