By C. E. Pouting, F.S.A. 



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which I have referred) occurs in the head of the western doors of 

 the aisles, in the outer doorways of the porch, and in the panelling 

 of the turrets. The two filletted rolls set at right angles occur both 

 in the east window at Edington and in the west porch at Winchester, 

 and the last two peculiarities are strong evidence that this porch 

 was erected by Bishop Edington. His work at Winchester, com- 

 pleted before 1366, has the leading characteristics of the fully 

 developed Perpendicular style, and, besides the indications of it in 

 the mouldings, the mullions of the windows are carried rigidly right 

 through the head ; transoms are freely introduced between them ; 

 the whole surface of the west front, both inside and out, as well as 

 that of the turrets, is panelled; whilst on the inside the main mullions 

 of the west windows of nave and aisles are carried up from the floor 

 to the window arch, and the doorways and windows themselves only, 

 as it were, form part of a general scheme of panelling. 



It is, to me, a most remarkable thing that the same man should 

 have designed work, so widely distant, as regards the periods at 

 which the two styles prevailed, as the porch of Middleton Cheney 

 and the west front of Winchester, and it must, I think, be clear to 

 anyone who studies and compares the three works of Bishop Eding'- 

 ton, to which I have referred, that the designer of them has a prior 

 claim to William of Wykeham to be considered the originator of 

 the Perpendicular style, and that he was, moreover, a man of very 

 extraordinary ability, and an honour to his native county of Wiltshire . 



The following on the life of Bishop Edington has been communi- 

 cated to me by Mr. H. D. Cole, of Winchester, and I give a drawing, 

 taken from a rubbing which he kindly supplied to me, of the 

 ornamentation of the stole from the bishop's effigy. 



Bishop William db Edyndon. 



At the east end of the nave on the south side of the steps leading 

 up to the choir is the oldest chantry in the Cathedral, being that of 

 William of Edyndon, Edyngton, or Edington, who was Bishop of 

 Winchester, A.D. 1345, and who died in 1366. 



In 1350 the bishop, who was in high favour with King Edward 

 III., was appointed the first prelate of the newly-instituted Order 



