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1501-1515. The steeple of Louth church, in Lincolnshire,

built.

The parish accompts for building this steeple and repairing the church, are printed in the Archæologia, vol. x. pp. 70-98, and reprinted in Britton's Architectural Antiquities, vol. iv. pp. 1-7, with engravings.

Style-Perpendicular, of late character.

Flying buttresses, vol. iii. Pl. 14.

1502-1504. The sepulchral monument of Arthur Tudor, prince of Wales, son of Henry VII., in Worcester cathedral. Wild's Illustration of Worcester Cathedral, p. 24. Pl. x.; and Britton's History of the same Cathedral, p. 19. Pl. x.

Style-Perpendicular: open screen work.

1503-1520. Henry the Seventh's chapel in Westminster abbey church, built. Ackermann's Hist. of Westminster Abbey, vol. i. pp. 218-221; and vol. ii. pp. 135-149.

The will of king Henry VII., who died in 1509, contains minute directions for the completion of this building, which were carried into effect by his executors, under the superintendance of William Bolton, prior of St. Bartholomew, appointed master of the works by the king himself.

Style-Late Perpendicular, very richly ornamented with panelling, &c.

Abacus, vol. ii. Pl. i.

Arch, vol. iii. Pl. 4.

Finial, vol. iii. Pl. 33.

Flying Buttress, vol. iii. Pl. 14.
Ornamented Moulding, vol. ii. Pl. 91.
Pendant, vol. ii. Pl. 101.

1505. Piddleton church, in Dorsetshire, completed at this date, as stated by an inscription which is preserved in it. Style-Perpendicular, good for this period. Capital, vol. ii. Pl. 31.

1505. The hospital of the Savoy, in the Strand, London, rebuilt and endowed by king Henry VII. Monasticon, vol. vi. p. 726. The chapel built at this period, and converted into a parish church by queen Elizabeth, remains in a tolerably perfect state. Its ceiling is very rich: the east end has been ornamented with tabernacle-work, of which one niche remains, but the greater part has been cut away to make place for some monuments and a pseudo-grecian altar-screen.

Style-Perpendicular, late and plain, with the exception of the ceiling, which is very rich.

1505. The gateway of the close of Wells cathedral, supposed to be of this date.

Cornice, vol. ii. Pl. 38.

1506-1519. The monument of St. Sebald, at Nuremberg, in Germany, executed by Vischer. Bulletin Monumental, vol. x. p. 265. Style-Renaissance: a rich piece of ironwork.

1506-1522. The choir of the church of St. Etienne, at Beauvais, in France, built; the high altar was consecrated in 1522. S. de Saint Germain, Notice Hist. et Descript. sur l'Eglise de St. Etienne de Beauvais, p. 14.

Style-Perpendicular. The nave and transepts are of the twelfth century ; and there is some beautiful painted glass.

1507, vel circa. The tower of St. Neot's church, Huntingdonshire, erected. Beauties of England and Wales, vol. vii. p. 568. Style Perpendicular: a beautiful specimen. Vol. iii. Pl. 38.

1507-1520. The groined vault of the choir of St. George's chapel, Windsor, constructed.

John Hylmer and William Vertue, freemasons, agreed by indenture dated June 5, 1507, to construct this vaulting for 700l., and to complete it by Christmas, 1508: it appears, however, that part of the works were not finished in 1519, when a subscription among the Knights of the Garter was entered into to defray the expense of their completion.

Style Late Perpendicular, with fan-tracery.

1508-1515. The stone vaulting of King's college chapel, at Cambridge, with its exterior towers, turrets, finials, &c., built by Henry VII. and his executors.

The indentures for the different parts of the work are preserved in the college, and printed in Britton's Architectural Antiquities, vol. i. pp. 27—36, with several engravings.

Style-Perpendicular, late, but very rich.

Cross on gable, vol. iii. Pl. 27.

THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE OF THE

TIME OF KING HENRY VII.

Lavenham church, Suffolk, rebuilt by the family of Spring, opulent clothiers of that town, jointly with the De-Veres, earls of Oxford. Pegge's Sylloge, p. 113.

Style-Perpendicular, very rich and good, but rather late.
For engravings, see Neale's Views of Churches, vol. ii.

Trinity church at Melford, Suffolk, built by the family of Clopton.

Style Good Perpendicular: a very fine specimen.

For engravings, and an interesting account of this church, written by a rector of it in 1688, see Neale's Views of Churches, vol. ii.

Arch, gateway in the chancellor's house at Lincoln, vol. iii. Pl. 4.
Capital, Upway, Dorsetshire, vol. ii. Pl. 31.
Doorway, Tattershall church, vol. ii. Pl. 31.
Market-cross, Malmsbury, vol. iii. Pl. 26.
Panel, Colchester, vol. ii. Pl. 96.

Pinnacle, St. Stephen's, Bristol, vol. ii. Pl. 110.
Window, Aylsham church, Norfolk, vol. iii. Pl. 39.

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1509-1530. The western façade of Rouen cathedral, commenced by cardinal George d'Amboise, in 1509, and completed in 1530. Gilbert, Description Historique de la Cathédrale of Rouen, p. 28. Style-Flamboyant.

1509-1532. The cathedral of Bangor (with the exception of the choir), built by bishop Thomas Skevyngton. On the outside of the tower is the following inscription:-Thomas Skebyngton Episcopus Bangorie hoc campanile et ecclesiam fieri fecit Ao, Partus Virginei MCCCCCXXXII. Pegge's Sylloge, p. 62.

Style-Perpendicular.

1510-1528. The chapel on the south side of Collumpton church, in the county of Devon, built by John Lane, merchant, as appears from the inscriptions on his tomb therein. Pegge's Sylloge, pp. 92, 93.

Style-Perpendicular, late and rich.

Pendant, vol. ii. Pl. 101.

1511-1522. Thornbury castle, Gloucestershire, built by Edward Stafford, duke of Buckingham, as appears from an inscription over the entrance gate, but left incomplete at his death in 1522, in which state it still remains.

The walls are for the most part in a perfect state, but without a roof, which appears never to have been put on. It is a fine specimen of the baronial mansions of that age, built for magnificent display rather than for defence.

See the frontispiece to this volume, and a chimney, vol. ii. Pl. 33.

Plan of the upper window.

Plan of the lower window.

1512-1521. Brasenose college, Oxford, the hall and gateway tower included, built by William Smith, bishop of Lincoln, and sir Robert Sutton. Ingram's Memorials of Oxford.

Style Late Perpendicular.

1513-1517. The quadrangle of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, built by Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester. Ingram's Me

morials of Oxford.

The buildings of this college remain nearly in their original state. A room over the entrance gateway is particularly worthy of attention, still retaining the wainscoting and very rich plaster ceiling and cornice of the time of the founder.

1513-1529. The tower of St. Kilan at Heilbronn, in Germany, built. Bulletin Monumental, vol. x. p. 265.

1514-1525. The "Broodhuis," otherwise the "Maison du Roi" at Brussels, built. The works were executed under the superintendance of five architects, Antoine, Rombaut, and Mathieu Kelderman, Dominique de Wagemaker, and Henry Van Peede. The first furnished the design for the building. Schayes's Treatise on the Pointed Style in Belgium, in Weale's Quarterly Papers, vol. ii. pp. 43, 44.

1515. The steeple of Mayfield church, Staffordshire, built by Thomas Rolleston, as recorded in an inscription cut in stone on the west side of the same. Pegge's Sylloge, p. 39. Pl. xi.

1515-1539. The monument of abbot William Malvern, alias Parker, on the north side of the choir of Gloucester cathedral, erected by himself during his life-time, but in which his body was never interred.

William Parker, the last abbot of the great monastery of St. Peter at Gloucester, was elected in 1515, and continued in office until the dissolution of the monasteries, in 1539, soon after which he died. He built a vestry at the end of the north transept of his church, the present cathedral.

Style-Late Perpendicular. The mouldings of this tomb are exactly the same as those of the paneling and vault of the choir, and it is evidently part of the same work: probably he completed what his predecessors had begun.

1516-1519. The monument of king Henry VII. and his queen, in his chapel at Westminster abbey church, executed by Pietro Torrigiani, a Florentine sculptor, for which he received a thousand pounds. Ackermann's Hist. of Westminster Abbey, vol. ii. pp. 140-143, where the agreement between the executors of Henry VII. and Peter Torrigiani, respecting this monument, is given. Style-Late Perpendicular: the altar-tomb is surrounded by a bronze screen.

1517. The chancel of Darton church in the west riding of Yorkshire, rebuilt, and at this date finished by Thomas Tykyll, prior of Monk-Bretton monastery in the same county, and

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