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which I have referred) occurs in the head of the western doors of 
the aisles, in the outer doorways of the porch, and in the panelling 
of the turrets. The two filletted rolls set at right angles occur both 
in the east window at Edington and in the west porch at Winchester, 
and the last two peculiarities are strong evidence that this porch 
was erected by Bishop Edington. His work at Winchester, com- 
pleted before 1866, has the leading characteristics of the fully 
developed Perpendicular style, and, besides the indications of it in 
. the mouldings, the mullions of the windows are carried rigidly right 
through the head; transoms are freely introduced between them ; 
the whole surface of the west front, both inside and out, as well as 
that of the turrets, is panelled; whilst on the inside the main mullions 
of the west windows of nave and aisles are carried up from the floor 
to the window arch, and the doorways and windows themselves only, 
as it were, form part of a general scheme of panelling. 
It is, to me, a most remarkable thing that the same man should 
have designed work, so widely distant, as regards the periods at 
which the two styles prevailed, as the porch of Middleton Cheney 
and the west front of Winchester, and it must, I think, be clear to 
anyone who studies and compares the three works of Bishop Eding- 
ton, to which I have referred, that the designer of them has a prior 
claim to William of Wykeham to be considered the originator of 
the Perpendicular style, and that he was, moreover, a man of very 
extraordinary ability,and an honour to his native county of Wiltshire. 
The following on the life of Bishop Edington has been communi- 
cated to me by Mr. H. D. Cole, of Winchester, and I give a drawing, 
taken from a rubbing which he kindly supplied to me, of the 
ornamentation of the stole from the bishop’s effigy. 
BisHor WittiamM DE Epynpon. 
At the east end of the nave on the south side of the steps leading 
up to the choir is the oldest chantry in the Cathedral, being that of 
William of Edyndon, Edyngton, or Edington, who was Bishop of 
_ Winchester, A.D. 1345, and who died in 1866. 
In 1850 the bishop, who was in high favour with King Edward 
IIl., was appointed the first prelate of the newly-instituted Order 
