192 Architectural Notes on Places visited by the Society in 1891. 
As seen from the lawn the bridge has a delightful setting of water 
and foliage. 
Holbein’s Porch, after its removal from the quadrangle by Wyatt, 
was re-erected in the garden as the entrance to a kind of summer- 
house apparently built for the purpose; and now forms a charming 
termination to the vista of the west walk. It is a two-storied 
building, each of the three disengaged sides has in its lower stage a 
square opening flanked by double Ionic columns with pedestal and 
cornice, The upper stage is an unpierced wall with a panel charged 
with arms forming the central feature of each face, and medallions 
with busts at the sides. These are flanked by double composite 
columns with low pedestal base and moulded cornice. The parapet 
consists of semicircular battlements containing the escallop ornament, 
with griffins holding shields between. 
Tbe ceiling is a barrel vault of very Gothic character, with 
central pendants and moulded ribs springing from a cornice, each 
rib having a console corbel under it. Here is the same combination 
of styles which we observed in the centre of the east front, but the 
details are of a more refined type, and the Italian feeling predomi- 
nates. The mouldings of the square openings have a band of 
interlaced ornament carried round, and the pedestals supporting the 
lower order are enriched by graceful Italian carving. The inside 
was formerly decorated in colours, traces of which still remain. 
Inside the summer-house are two coffin-slabs, both of late 
thirteenth or early fourteenth century date, found a few years ago 
in excavating on the south side of the house, one covering a drain, 
and the other partially under the foundation. One is of Purbeck 
marble with moulded edges and a raised foliated cross. The other 
is of Portland stone, the edges are moulded, on the upper side there 
is an incised cross, also what looks like an ave (probably the symbo] 
of the woodman’s craft) or a butcher’s cleaver. The spot where 
these were found might have been the site of the chapel or the 
cemetery of the abbey. 
Tue Op Cuaurcu or S. Mary THE VirGin. WILTON. 
This Church, having been superseded by the magnificent new 
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