328 Notes on Spye Park and Bromham. 
plumes. Is it not therefore probable that the arms on the central 
panel of the oriel were those of Edward VI., when Prince of Wales, 
rather than the King’s arms repeated? On each side panel of the 
oriel occurs the Tudor rose crowned, that on the left remaining perfect. 
In the left spandrel of the arch is the shield of Baynton with the 
letter B upon it, placed diagonally, in the upper right-hand ‘corner. 
Probably the letter E was originally in the lower left-hand corner, 
but is not now visible. The shield in the right spandrel of the arch 
bears quarterly, first and fourth Baynton,second Delamere,third Roche. 
It may be noticed that four modern lancet windows, two on each 
side of the gate-house, are built of moulded stones which have evi- 
dently formed the ribs of a groined vault, but whether they belonged 
to this gate or not I cannot tell. 
There are two timber houses of the fifteenth century, near Bromham 
Church, which deserve attention, as such houses are not too numerous 
and become scarcer every day. One of these is church property. 
This house stands to the north-east of the chancel, and has been a 
good deal altered by the insertion of a shop window. It retains its 
original doorway which opens, I think, into the principal room, 
which has been a square room with a flat ceiling and moulded beams. 
Many such ceilings, I believe, remain, and not unfrequently in houses 
that have been refaced, so that no one would suspect their antiquity. 
The beams cross in the middle and return round the sides of the 
room. Adjoining is a room which looks as if it had been the kitchen, 
but perhaps it may be later. There is one stone window in the end 
of the house which has a look of the sixteenth century, but may be 
of the fifteenth. The oldest wooden windows of which there are 
traces are, I think, of the seventeenth. 
The other house stands to the south-west of the church, and ex- 
ternally it is the more perfect of the two. The timber work of these 
two houses is very similar, and apparently of about the same datein the 
fifteenth century ; butin the case of this second house an additional 
wing and a chimney have been addedin the sixteenth century ,and these 
additions are of stone. The interior of this house I have not seen. 
Near this house is another of later date with a picturesque porch. 

