296 Edingdon Monastery. 



X 20 6 



Mr. J. H. Parker^s general description of the style already alluded 

 to fp. 241) is as follows : " It is all of uniform character, and that 

 character is neither Decorated nor Perpendicular, but a very re- 

 markable mixture of the two styles throughout : the tracery of the 

 windows looks at first sight like Decorated, but on looking more 

 closely, the introduction of Perpendicular features is very evident ; 

 the west doorway has the segmental arch, common in Decorated 

 work ; over this is the usual square label of the Pei'pendicular, and 

 under the arch is Perpendicular panelling over the heads of the two 

 doors ; the same curious mixture is observable in the mouldings, 

 and in all the details. This example is the more valuable, from the 

 circumstance that it was Bishop Edington who commenced the al- 

 teration of Winchester Cathedral into the Perpendicular style.^^ ^ 



An embattled parapet is carried round the roof, including the 

 tower. Under the fine west window of eight lights is a central 

 doorway divided into two openings. The doors themselves remain, 

 but are never opened on account of the dangerous condition of the 

 stone-work above. 



Nave. 



The nave has a singular wooden ceiling of debased character with 

 plaster panels, a small west gallery, high pews, tablets on the piers, 

 whitewashed walls, and other tokens of ante- Restoration barbarism. 

 The date of churchwarden work is recorded by initials in some places 

 on the wall-plates : the full names being supplied by conjecture 

 from old parish account books of the period. In the south aisle, 

 above the Cheney monument, "I H [John Hart] 1615. S H 

 [Stephen Horle] R R [Robert Rogers]." Also "I H 1674." In 



* Archteol. Instit. Journal, vol. vii., p. 206. See also in same Journal, vol. for 

 1850, p. 202, a wood-cut of the west front, and at p. 206 some remarks. 



