Melcombe Horsey

The English Heritage Website has a reference to an erased painting of a windmill on a diamond shaped leaded window light in St Andrews Church, Melcombe Horsey (see below) . This church is in the park of Bingham's Melcombe House near Milton Abbas* Source Ref : AA 043399

Link to this : http://catalogue.millsarchive.org/remains-of-erased-painting-of-windmill-on-glass-panel

An extract from the British History On Line from RCHME relating to Melcombe Horsey (link : http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset/vol3/pp161-175) specifically to St Andrews Church notes :

......In N. window of nave, in apex of lights, fragments of canopies in situ, 14th century; reset in same window, two roundels with doves and scrolls, two quarries with rudder device and two with rebuses of Abbot William Middleton of Milton Abbey, all late 15th century.

This suggests that the windmill is the nearby Milton Abbas one as the Abbot used a windmill on a tun (barrel) as his rebus.