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of the two narrow windows in the transepts, forming (with the line 
of the splay and that of the outside face) the peculiar angular outer 
member of the mullions, which occurs also in the great west window 
at Winchester. The casement here is flat, and the outer member 
of the jamb is the quirked wave-mould which exists on the inner 
doorway of the porch. The window mouldings of the aisles and 
clerestory, the nave arcade, and the various copings and cornices all 
show the same mixture of early and late forms, the latter predomi- 
nating, but all are rich and beautifully designed. 
The leading principle in the construction of the groups of 
mouldings at Edington is that which is a special characteristic of 
Perpendicular work—that all lie on the splay or chamfer plane, and 
the projection of the various members all ¢ouwch the line of that 
plane. The splays, whether sunk or not, are also parallel to this 
line, so that the mouldings are, as it were, sunk from the surface 
represented by it. This applies not only to jamb and arch 
mouldings, but also to the under sides of cornices and string courses. 
I have only time to make a brief allusion to the work of Bishop 
Edington at Winchester Cathedral, executed between the years 
1345 and 1866; this consists of the entire west front, one bay of 
the north aisle and two of the south aisle. As regards the 
mouldings, Professor Willis states that “those of Bishop Edington 
and Bishop Wykeham afford a very useful test of the different 
powers of the artists who designed them,” and he arrives at a 
conclusion unfavourable to our Founder. But I do not hesitate to 
affirm that had the learned Professor studied Bishop Edington’s 
mouldings in this Church he would not have accused him of any 
lack of power of design. 
His mouldings at Winchester show a great advance in the change 
of style; they are much flatter, and of what Mr. Paley terms the 
“ save-trouble” type. Moreover, the corresponding members are 
of the same size, both in the great west window of the nave, and 
in the smaller ones of the aisles, which has a very coarse and 
dwarfing effect upon the latter. The same chamfer-plane treat- 
ment with parallel sunk splays is noticeable in them as in those at 
Edington. The singular quirk breaking the splay or hollow (to 
