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of each aisle, one in the end wall of each transept, one in the centre 

 of each side wall of the chancel, three on the east wall of the 

 chancel. On the outside they are as nearly as they can be opposite 

 to those on the inside. 



The four niches against the wall of the north transept, with their 

 scalloped heads and moulded seats, are doubtless additions made 

 after the monastery was bought, in 1549, by Sir W. Pawlett. The 

 domestic buildings were then pulled down, and a mansion erected 

 with the materials ; these niches would seem to indicate that the 

 gardens extended up to this wall of the Church. 



A beautiful monument in marble and alabaster, to the memory of 

 Sir Thomas Lewys, lessee of the house, from the Pawletts, in 1636, 

 occupies the south side of the sacrarium, and has its railing still 

 around it. 



In the floor of the sacrarium is an interesting brass, 14jin x 

 ll^m., with the inscription, " Here lyeth the body of the Right 

 Honble. Anne Lady Beauchamp, who deceased the 25th of September 

 in the yeare of Our Lord 16 64.-" In re-laying the floor the lead 

 coflin containing the body was exposed. It is only 5ft. 2in. long, 

 shaped to the outline of the body, and the face is moulded in low 

 relief. It bears the inscription, " The Right Honble. Anne Lady 

 Beauchamp, deceased the 25th of September, 1664." Lady 

 Beauchamp was the wife of Sir Edward Lewys, whose monument 

 is against the south wall. 



I have hitherto only dealt with the general design and features 

 of the Church, but it is in the composition of these that its principal 

 teaching value consists, as illustrating the course of the transition ; 

 and in briefly treating of this I hope to advance some further 

 evidence that it was the founder of this Church, William of 

 Edington, as I was glad to hear our President acknowledge in his 

 opening address (and not William of Wykeham, who has generally 

 been given the credit of it), who introduced the leading principles 

 of the Perpendicular style. 



I would incidentally remark that Professor Willis says it is known 

 that Wykeham was in Bishop Edington's service in 1352, and he 

 is supposed to have assisted as clerk of the works in the buildiug of 



