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ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE.
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In the third window from the east, on the south side—The arms of Edward Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward the Sixth), within a wreath, and surmounted by a coronet. The second and third quarters are lost.

Azure, on a cross, or, between four griffins' heads erased, argent, a rose gules. The shield is within a garter, and is surmounted by a mitre. Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester from 1531 to 1550, and from 1553 to 1555.

In the fourth window from the east, on the north side—Azure, an episcopal staff, or, surmounted by a pull argent, charged with four crosses paté fitché, sable: impaling Gules, a fess, or; in chief a goat's head argent; in base, three escallops of the last. William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1504 to 1532. The arms are within a wreath, and surmounted by a mitre.

The arms of King Henry the Eighth, supported by a red dragon and white greyhound.

The complicated charges and high finish of these coats, as well as the delicate texture of their material, contrast strongly with the more simple and more boldly executed shields of the time of Wykeham.

Other, arms, mentioned by Wood in his "History of the Colleges and Halls of Oxford," have disappeared.

C. WINSTON.





NOTES ON EXAMPLES OF ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE.

BY THE REV. J. L. PETIT, M.A., F.S.A.[1]

A traveller may start, after a not unreasonably early dinner, from London, and breakfast the next morning at Paris. He may, doubtless, under the deadening influences of steam and iron, perform his journey without noticing a single object, or receiving a single new impression. Yet, I cannot help thinking that the generality of your readers will

  1. The Central Committee desire to record their acknowledgment of the renewed obligations of the Institute to Mr. Petit, who on the present occasion has liberally presented to the Journal the Illustrations which accompany this memoir, and are engraved from his own drawings.