226 Edington Church. 
an earlier type. But the principle of Perpendicularity is shewn in 
the vertical lines of the tracery, carried up from the points of the 
four main lights. This window affords a striking instance, I think, 
of the precedence which I elaim for William of Edington ; for it 
will be seen, on comparison with a window at New College, Oxford, 
erected by William of Wykeham in 1386, that the share of the 
latter in the design consists of taking Bishop Edington’s window, 
erected twenty-five years before, omitting the sub-mullions and 
tracery of these four main lights (in short, regarding it as a fowr- 
light instead of an eight-light window); extending its height to 
fit the place for which he required it, and adding a transom to 
support the lengthened mullions ! 
The three-light windows in the chancel and transepts are inter- 
esting and unique specimens of the Transitional treatment of the 
familiar Decorated type, known as “ reticulated” tracery. It is 
interesting to compare this with a window from the vestry of 
Merton College, Oxford, erected in 1325, By simply substituting 
a two-centred for an ogee arch of each compartment of the tracery, 
an elongation of the vertical dividing line is obtained producing the 
mullion-tracery which constitutes the distinctive character of the 
later examples. The narrow side windows in the transepts are quite 
unique in design; that in the north transept has a decidedly Per- 
pendicular feeling, and exhibits the wall panelling idea in its lower 
compartments, 
Much has been said of the tracery of the tower windows as ex- 
hibiting the “ cross flewry”’ in supposed allusion to the.arms of the 
Paveley family, but as the west windows of the aisles have the cross 
turned the other way this intention hardly holds good. I regard 
the tracery of these windows as a natural development of geometrical 
forms, and a similar device to those in the aisle is to be seen in a 
four-light window in Shere Church, in Surrey, given in “ Brandon’s 
Analysis.” 
It will be observed that the early segmental form of arch occurs 
over all the windows of the aisles and clerestory, and that the outer 
doorway of the porch has the pointed segmental arch which is so 
conspicuous a feature in Bishop Edington’s work at Winchester. 
