21.—Canopy of Stalls, Henry VII.'s Chapel, Westminster.
At Basing Church, in Hampshire, there is yet another example of the same limited use of Italian detail in the Paulet tombs, which are constructed in the thickness of the side-walls of the chancel (Plate [VII.]). The arches over the tombs and the doorway in the wall are all flat-pointed, and the spandrils are filled with Renaissance carving, which, in the case of the large arches, surrounds the arms of the founder. Except for these touches, and for the cresting along the top, which recalls that at Winchester, the detail is all Gothic. The large panel in the wall over the doorway seems to be of later date.
Plate VIIa.
PART OF SCREEN, ST. CROSS, WINCHESTER
(PROBABLY DUE TO BISHOP FOX, WHO DIED 1528.)
Plate VIIb.
PAULET TOMB, BASING CHURCH, HAMPSHIRE.
Another interesting piece of work of this period is found in the stalls of Henry VII.'s chapel at Westminster. The canopies (Fig. [21]) are quite Gothic in character, but of a rather florid description, and although there is no actual Renaissance detail, there is a tendency towards it. The caps of the pilasters are also Late Gothic, while the columns are of that honeycomb pattern which is a sign of change towards the new fashion (Fig. [22]). There is woodwork of a somewhat similar character at Winchester in Langton's chapel, and in Prior Silkstede's pulpit (1520). The Spring pew in Lavenham Church, Suffolk, is another instance of the late treatment of woodwork. There are niches, canopies, fan-vaulting, and cusped tracery (Fig. [23]), but a closer inspection shows that the tracery has completely departed from the simple lines of Gothic work, and has assumed fantastic forms combined of twisted strands and foliage (Fig. [24]), while the columns are honeycombed or twisted into spirals.