428 Sir William Sherrington's Work at Lacock, Sudclcy, & Dudley. 



So far as I know, no precisely similar windows are found any- 

 where else, with the exception of those to be mentioned later; the 

 nearest approach known to me is at Layer Marney, in Essex, where 

 the windows have consoles in the heads, taking the form of dolphins 

 on the interior face. 



We know that Sir William Sharington was arrested in January, 

 1549, for complicity in the treasonable designs of Thomas Lord 

 Seymour of Sudeley, Lord High Admiral, and brother of Protector 

 Somerset. 1 In the statement which he then made, 2 he alleges that 

 he had laid out large sums of money in furtherance of the building 

 schemes of the admiral at Sudeley and elsewhere. In particular, 

 he mentions that he had laid forth for his buildings at Bromham 

 £1,500, for his buildings at Sudeley £1,100. At Bromham the 

 lord admiral was neighbour to Sharington at Lacock, but there is 

 nothing now extant there that we can connect with this outlay, 

 though it is evident that both at Bromham and at Sudeley 

 Sharington had acted on a very considerable scale on Seymour's 

 behalf. Most of the existing work at Sudeley is either earlier or 

 slightly later than the period 1547 — 1549, with which we are now 

 concerned : but in the conduit house, known as St. Kenelm's Well, 

 and situated about three-quarters of a mile from the castle, we 

 have a very interesting and characteristic assemblage of " Sharing- 

 tonian" features, as may be seen in Fig. 6, reproduced here 

 by kind permission of Mr. W. Slatter, of Cheltenham. With 

 the exception of the pedimented niche over the door and the finials 

 to the gables, which are recent alterations, 3 every detail of the 

 building may be exactly paralleled at Lacock, though not all in one 

 place. For the general design of the building, Sharington's conduit- 

 house on Bowden Hill, Lacock, should be compared {Fig. 5) 

 but it should be noted that this latter has a stone roof supported 

 on transverse arches, whereas the Sudeley example has evidently 

 a wooden roof covered with tiles. For the outline of gable, its 



1 See Wilts Arch. Mag., xxvii., 159. 



2 P.R.O. State Papers, Domestic, vol. vi., Edward VI, No. 13. 



An older view appears in Dent's Winchcombe and Sudeley, p. 53, showing 



these finials as balls but this was almost certainly not the original design 



