232 On the Existing Structure of Lacoch Alley. 



communicates, by a turret stair, with the leads above. The best 

 external specimens of Sherrington's windows, are to be seen from 

 the cloister court, in the south wall of the old refectory. An 

 ornament, which is a feature of classical architecture diminished, 

 is used constantly throughout his work. It is a kind of bracket, 

 called, I believe, technically a truss. This ornament, applied to 

 the sides of the mullions and jambs, immediately under the lintel 

 of the windows, takes the place of cusping. Internally, these 

 windows were generally recessed, of which examples may be seen 

 in the " Stone Gallery," where the upper part of each window has 

 been altered, but the lower part retains a stone shelf supported by 

 the brackets just described. 



In this gallery there is a good fire-place, with a pattern incised 

 in the hearth-stone, and filled with lead. This is, I believe, 

 unusual, and has a good efiect. 



The gallery in the dormitory roof, remains with no other 

 alteration than the loss of some of its dormer windows. These 

 were half-timbered. The doors retain some good iron work. 



The Court-yard. 



On the north and east sides of the court-yard are offices of the 

 sixteenth century, which remain with hardly any alteration. Four- 

 centred arches of good character, and square-headed doorways with 

 classical details, are used indiscriminately. 



There are some good plain chimneys in the north wing. The 

 space in the roof is lit by dormer windows of half-timbered work. 



The building is very substantial, and well finished. 



The chimneys throughout the house, are mostly of this date. 

 They are of various designs, and some of the spiral ones are very 

 good. Of this period also are the carved animals bearing shields, 

 which serve as finials to most of the gables. 



Besides these, it may be well to mention the conduit house on 



Bowden Hill, which is Sir William Sherrington's work, and bore 



the arms of Sherrington impaling Farringdon.^ This, no doubt, 



^ The arms of Sherrington may still be made out. That the sinister bearing 

 was Farringdon, appears from Dingley's "History from Marble," lately 

 published by the Camden Society. 



