names occurs that of Hedley Vicars. The flags of the regiment are hung above the window.

There were two doors in the south aisle, affording entrance from the east and west walks of the cloisters. That at the eastern end was the priors' entrance; that at the western the monks,' although the dormitory was above the eastern cloister, and there was an entrance from it into the church through the south transept. These doors are now closed; and the portal which is now opened in the middle of the aisle was broken through the main wall about 1380; for work of which time it is not bad.

IX. The font [Title and Plate VII.], in the north aisle of the nave, is, no doubt, of Walkelin's time, and is of very similar character with those of East Meon in this county, and of St. Michael's Church, Southampton. All three are of black Sussex marble, and were apparently the work of the same sculptor. The designs on the four sides of the Winchester font are partly baptismal symbols (the salamander and the drinking doves), and partly represent events from the life of St. Nicholas of Myra, the patron saint of children, and in great honour with the Normans.

X. On the south side of the nave, and in the second bay from the choir, is Bishop Edingdon's Chantry (1345-1366), the first of a very fine series of chantry chapels contained in the cathedral, most of which were erected during the life of the persons by whom they were founded. (See Part II. for a sketch of Edingdon's For plan of font see Plate V.

life.) Edingdon's chantry (which suffered some alteration during the transformation of the piers against which it stands, from Norman to Perpendicular, and is therefore later in style than the bishop's own work at the west end of the cathedral) is of inferior design and interest to that of WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM (1366-1404) [Plate IX.], which occupies the entire space between two piers of the nave, on the same side, in the fifth bay from the west end. This chapel, to which Wykeham refers in his will, was built by him on the site of an altar dedicated to the Virgin, his especial patroness, the mass at which he had always been accustomed to attend when a boy at school, and which stood, it is said "in that part of the cross precisely which corresponded with the pierced side of the Saviour." The design of Wykeham's chantry is very beautiful; and it is one of the best remaining specimens of a fourteenth-century monumental chapel. The foundation of the altar is still visible. The Bishop's effigy [Plate X.], the "comeliness" of which, it has been suggested, may have induced Anthony Wood to describe him as having been of "a courtly presence," reposes on an altar-tomb in the centre, arrayed in chasuble and mitre. The pastoral staff, with the infula, is carried within the right arm, from which depends the maniple. The pillow at the head is supported by two angels. At the feet three monks are represented offering up prayers for the repose of the departed soul. (They are said, but questionably, to represent Wykeham's three assistants in the