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battlement, but are now broken off at that level, so that the original 
finish cannot be ascertained. On the central panel of the front 
oriel are the royal arms of Henry VIII., France and England 
quarterly, encircled by the garter, surmounted by the crown, with a 
crowned lion and griffin as supporters. On the left panel, above 
some foliated ornament, are the letters E B, for Edward Baynton, 
and beneath this the griffin crest of the Baynton family. This 
carving is almost perfect. On the right panel has been a beautiful 
device, to a considerable extent open-work, and therefore much 
mutilated. Here again are the letters E B, this time tied together 
by a cord. ‘he upper part of this device is lost. Letters thus 
tied together are frequently the cypher of man and wife. In this 
case, as there is no crest beneath, they may be for the wife Elizabeth 
Baynton, and the cord may indicate that it was a cypher she acquired 
by marriage. The lowest member of the mouldings, beneath the 
oriel, is a richly carved band in which griffins with human heads 
support wreaths containing crests, alternately the Baynton griffin’s 
head, and a horse’s head, the crest of Roche of Bromham. 
In the spandrels of the arch beneath is carved the foliage of a 
vine with bunches of grapes. In the right spandrel is the wife’s 
paternal shield, bearing quarterly, first and fourth, argent, a chevron 
gules, between three pheons sable, Sulliard; and second and third, 
a coat which I have not identified. In the left spandrel is this 
shield, quarterly, first and fourth, Baynton, second, Delamere, third, 
Roche,—impaling the Sulliard arms as in the shield last mentioned. 
Over the central oriel, on the battlement, is the griffin crest, and 
in asimilar position near the angle of the wall on each side the 
horse’s head, these latter being rather rudely cut. 
The inner or east side of the gate-house is plainer. In the central 
panel of the oriel, of which the carving has been very much muti- 
lated, appear again the crowned lion and griffin supporters, and the 
remains of a crown or coronet over all. The shield is completely 
broken away, but it does not seem to have been encircled by the 
garter. The battlement on this side of the gate is evidently modern, 
and has in general no mouldings, but, on the central stone which, 
__ as it has a moulding, appears to be original, are the Prince of Wales’ 
