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THE HOSPITAL OF ST. CROSS

ponderous pillars in the nave stands the font, which, from its workmanship, appears to be of the same date with the western part of the building; it is ornamented with flowers and round-headed arches. Near the font, within, the wall of the church, is a tomb composed of a cinquefoil arch, supported by short columns; it was probably erected about the middle of the thirteenth century; the canopy is adorned with crockets and a finial. Looking towards the east end, the chancel presents a rich specimen of the intersecting circular arch, which has been before alluded to. This part of the church is paved with white marble: on each side of the high altar are rich screens of Gothic spire-work carved in stone, and handsomely ornamented. On each side of the chancel, divided from it by the screen, is an aisle or chapel, in which are the remains of the two side altars; these chapels exhibit an intermixture of different styles of architecture: the windows are circular with a broad band of zigzag; the groining of the roofs is ornamented in a similar manner, and springs from slender clustered columns, attached to which in the chapel on the north side, which we have represented, are brackets,, and an elegant piscina supported by grotesque infantine figures. The transcepts are lighted by large circular windows, with several bands of varied zigzag; between the indentures of the outer row are figures representing cherubs.

Other remarkable things within the church are, the carved figures of illustrious scripture personages over the

THE HOSPITAL OF ST. CROSS.

-sixteen stalls in the choir, which, by the style of the design and workmanship, appear to be of the reign of Henry VII.; the ancient monumental brass, standing under the tower, to the memory of John de Campden, the friend of Wykeham; and the modern mural monument of Wolfran Cornwall, formerly speaker of the house of commons. There is likewise some curious painted glass in the great west window, placed there at the expense of the master, Dr. Lockman: this consists of ancient figures of saints, and of modern stained glass, containing the arms of his majesty, the prince of Wales, and other branches of the royal family, as likewise of the Hospital itself, and in the open quatrefoil over the door, the arms and initials of the said master, Dr. Lockman. We must not forget to mention that there is, in different parts of the pavement, a great quantity of glazed tiles, called and supposed to be Roman, though upon some of them we clearly see the hatched and other Saxon ornaments, and upon others the English monosyllables Have mynde, in the common black letter of the fifteenth century, which brings the use of these tiles almost down to our own age.

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