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tempted to conclude that the change in. style corresponds with the 

 break in the work which must have been caused by his arrest in 

 January, 1549 ; but the inference would be incorrect, for, as we shall 

 see, the work at Sudeley, which belongs entirely to the developed 

 " Sharingtonian " style, must have been carried out before 1549. 

 The special features characterising this later style, which we may 

 for convenience call " Sharingtonian," are the following : — 



(1) A peculiar profile of gable-coping, combined with consoles 

 or brackets, at the base of the gable, and with a dentilled blocking- 

 course under the eaves. 



(2) Square-headed doorways with sunk chamfers in the 

 jambs, a peculiar variety of stop-chamfer, and a classical entab- 

 lature, supported by consoles at either side, 



(3) A characteristic window of four (in one instance three) 

 lights, with a transom at mid-height, and consoles in the heads of 

 the upper lights, The central mullion is wider than the others, 

 and its intersection with the transom is marked by a circle ; there 

 are half-circles at the upper end of this mullion and at the ends 

 of the transom, and quarter-circles in the upper corners of the 

 window. Below, internally is a shelf supported on five consoles, 

 alternately broad and narrow, to correspond with the mullion s 

 above. By the kindness of Mr, H. Brakspear, F.S.A., I am enabled 

 to reproduce here a measured drawing (fig, 4), showing what these 

 windows must have been, as originally set up. 1 This is perhaps 

 the most characteristic feature of Sharington's work at Lacock, 

 though no absolutely untouched example of the recessed four-light 

 transomed window still survives there. The nearest existing 

 representatives may be found in the windows inserted by 

 Sharington in the south wall of the frater, an outside view of 

 which is shown in Fig. 1, though these, being high above the 

 floor-level, have sills deeply splayed, instead of the usual shelf, 

 for the better lighting of the passage below. 



1 There was also shown, at the reading of the paper, a restored drawing 

 by Mr. Brakspear, of the window of the " Tapestry Koom," a much more 

 ornate example of the same type, with carved ornament, and Sharington's 

 initials, etc., but it has not been found possible to include it in the present 

 publication. 

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