430 Sir William Sharington' s Work at Lacock, Sudeley, & Dudley. 



This shows that Sharington had, up to the time of his death, at 

 least one skilful carver, and perhaps more, whom he occasionally 

 lent to his friends for the execution of elaborate chimneypieces, 

 and such stone animals as those of which a good many still exist 

 at Lacock. 



An examination of the remaining buildings at Dudley Castle 

 fails to reveal any chimneypiece of Bath stone, such as Chapman 

 would presumably work at Lacock, but the existence of " Sharing- 

 tonian " features in much of Northumberland's work there is un- 

 mistakable, although the decayed condition of the stonework makes 

 it difficult to see in some cases, and in others it is obscured by recent 

 repairs. Mr. Brakspear and I spent a day at Dudley Castle during 

 the summer of 1912 ; and an examination of the existing remains of 

 the domestic buildings makes it practically certain that Sharington 

 must have remodelled, or built anew, the whole of the range north- 

 wards from the chapel and great chamber adjoining. This would 

 comprise, (1) the hall with its appurtenant buildings, (2) the kitchens 

 with bedrooms over, (3) a further block of service buildings, (4) the 

 northern gate or postern. Northumberland's attainder in 1553, 

 following shortly on the death of Sharington in July of that year, 

 probably arrested the work before completion, aud it is doubtful 

 whether the chimneypiece mentioned above was ever actually set up. 



There appear to be " Sharing tonian " doorways at each end of 

 the open colonnade which connected the two wings of Northumber- 

 land's great hall on the first floor level (Fig. 8). The stonework 

 is badly decayed, but the general resemblance between these door- 

 ways and that shown in Fig. 3, is too marked to be acci- 

 dental. The way, too, in which the attached column is combined j 

 with the stonework of the adjoining window is strongly reminiscent ! 

 of Sharington's treatment of a similar column (the only one re- 

 maining) in the courtyard at Lacock (Fig. 2). This column 

 supported the beginning of a timber-built gallery or bridge which 

 gave access to some buildings, now destroyed, in the courtyard. 



The upper-story windows at Dudley, so far as one could judge 

 from the ground-floor level on the inside, appear to be of " Sharing- 

 tonian " pattern, including the shelf with consoles beneath (Fig. 9) : 



