By C. E. Ponting, F.8.A. 227 
All the other arches at Edington are of the obtusely pointed form 
known as the drop arch. A marked feature of the Perpendicular 
style which prevails here, in almost all cases, is the return of the 
label either as a string course, as in the windows of the chancel and 
transepts, or as a knee, as in those of the tower. The mouldings, 
even more than the tracery, indicate a leaning towards the change 
of style, whilst retaining many of the characteristics of the Decorated, 
and it might be worth while to trace their development from what 
was probably the earliest to the latest work of William of Edington 
—this Church being the connecting link. On comparing the in- 
teresting porch of Middleton Cheney (of which Church he was 
rector from 1382 to 1835) with Edington, I bave no doubt it was, 
as generally supposed, erected during the time of his incumbency. 
The form of the arch and the knee of the label, as well as the 
mouldings of the doorway, are corresponding features. 
Taking, then, this doorway as a specimen of Edington’s early 
work—we have two orders of the wave-mould divided by a small 
but deep hollow or “casement.” Then in the inner doorway at 
Edington we have the same features advanced a stage. The inner 
sinking of the wave-mould is quirked, whilst the outer sinking 
remains as before and the casement is slightly flattened. Taking next 
the doorway into the cloister, the early form of the filletted-roll, 
with the deep outside sinking, and the small rolls which soften the 
outline of the casement are here combined with a wide flat casement, 
which indicates a much later feeling. 
The reticulated windows of chancel and transepts have the double 
ogee (or brace-mould) with a very flat casement, and an attenuated 
form of filletted-roll forming a group of mouldings of decidedly 
Perpendicular character. The east window has the same members, 
with the addition of the quirk and sunk chamfer, to throw into 
relief the fillets of the inner order of the tracery, which are features 
of Bishop Edington’s work, both here and at Winchester. It also 
has the somewhat unusual arrangement of two filletted-rolls set at 
right angles, forming the inner edge of the jamb. The label and 
string course are of the same late type which prevails throughout 
the building. A similar kind of quirk occurs in the outside splay 
