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of each aisle, one in the end wall of each transept, one in the centre 
of each side wall of the chancel, three on the east wall of the 
ehancel. On the outside they are as nearly as they can be opposite 
to those on the inside. 
The four niches against the wall of the north transept, with their 
scalloped heads and moulded seats, are doubtless additions made 
after the monastery was bought, in 1549, by Sir W. Pawlett. The 
domestic buildings were then pulled down, and a mansion erected 
with the materials; these niches would seem to indicate that the 
gardens extended up to this wall of the Church. 
A beautiful monument in marble and alabaster, to the memory of 
Sir Thomas Lewys, lessee of the house, from the Pawletts, in 1636, 
occupies the south side of the sacrarium, and has its railing still 
around it. 
In the floor of the sacrarium is an interesting brass, 143in x 
1l}in., with the inscription, “ Here lyeth the body of the Right 
Honble. Anne Lady Beauchamp, who deceased the 25th of September 
in the yeare of Our Lord 1664.” In re-laying the floor the lead 
coffin containing the body was exposed. It is only 5ft. 2in. long, 
shaped to the outline of the body, and the face is moulded in low 
relief. It bears the inscription, ‘The Right Honble. Anne Lady 
Beauchamp, deceased the 25th of September, 1664.” Lady 
Beauchamp was the wife of Sir Edward Lewys, whose monument 
is against the south wall. 
I have hitherto only dealt with the general design and features 
of the Church, but it is in the composition of these that its principal 
teaching value consists, as illustrating the course of the transition ; _ 
and in briefly treating of this I hope to advance some further 
evidence that it was the founder of this Church, William of 
Edington, as I was glad to hear our President acknowledge in his 
opening address (and not William of Wykeham, who has generally 
been given the credit of it), who introduced the leading principles 
of the Perpendicular style. 
I would incidentally remark that Professor Willis says it is known 
that Wykeham was in Bishop Edington’s service in 13852, and he 
is supposed to have assisted as clerk of the works in the building of 
