By the Rev. W. G. Clark- Maxwell, F.S.A. 429 



coping, the consoles beneath it, and the dentilled blocking-course 

 under the eaves, we may compare the photograph of a projection 

 from the north-east angle of the Lacock stable-yard illustrated in 

 Fig. 7. The plinth, though one which is common enough in 

 late Perpendicular work, is found again in close juxtaposition to 

 classical details in the Bowden Hill conduit-house and the interior 

 of the same stable-yard ; the doorway of the Sudeley conduit-house 

 finds its precise counterpart in the blocked door which gave access 

 to the cloister leads at Lacock {Fig. 3), and the small windows 

 with consoles in the heads may nearly be matched at Lacock by 

 the upper part of a pair of single-light windows, unblocked in 

 1850, in the south wall of one of the principal bedrooms, and by the 

 small window in the passage leading to the muniment room in the 

 tower. 



It should further be noted that all these features are of the 

 developed renaissance type of Sharington's work at Lacock ; and 

 since there can be practically no doubt that the conduit-house 

 represents part of the building on which Sharington had laid out 

 money for the admiral, the conclusion follows that he must have 

 reached this point of development before his arrest in January, 

 1549 ; and he seems not to have varied subsequently from it. 



The documentary evidence of Sharington's connexion with 

 Dudley Castle is to be found in a letter addressed by him on 25th 

 June, 1553, about a fortnight before his death, to Sir J. Thynne, 

 of Longleat. 1 In this letter he excuses himself for not sending 

 Thynne one of his workmen, named Chapman ; he would willingly 

 do so, but Chapman had been sent for by the Duke of Northumber- 

 land to Dudley ; and though he had not yet started, he had sent 

 on his working tools in the waggons that had left with the chimney 

 that he had been so long working at. Meanwhile Sharington pro- 

 poses to send a measure and a pattern of the pedestal on which 

 Thynne intends to set his " beast " (a carved stone animal, of which 

 two may be seen in Fig. 7) " that may be both agreeable to your 

 poynen table 2 and to the beast." 



1 Published by Mr. C. H. Talbot in the Wilts Arch. Mag., xxvi., 50. 

 8 i.e., gable coping. 



2 F 2 



