or ACTON BURN ELL.

329 f?ic lacct.SnS Jtubiis finrofltCliIf s^ns "btDoT^ot ran otrtir^/ be lamw-HT^no £)ra-m-icra-<rftI5f Cue aicipimusasi clows are single trefoil-headed lights, but placed in ranges : for instance the south side of the chancel has four -svhich answer with an arcade in the interior, on shafts with trefoil heads. All the mouldings arc Early English. On the north side are three similar windows. The font is richly moulded ; it has eight convex sides, which have trefoliated arches, resting upon clustered shafts. A corbel-table composed of grotesque heads and bj-ackets alternately, runs round the whole of the building, and imparts to it a characteristic degree of elegance. The capping of the buttresses is curvilinear. There have been north and south chancel doors, and there is a fine double piscina in tlie usual place. The arches of both transepts rest upon richly decorated corbels, about a yard from the floor. In the south transept is a tine monumental arch "with a piscina. The opposite one, which has also had its altar, is nuich encumbered with monu- ments. That to Sir Richard Lee and his Avife in 1591, oc- cupies the place of the altar, ^riie church contains a great number of encaustic tiles, whose patterns would indicate them to be coeval with the building. There is one monument that calls for a more detailed ac- count. It is the sepulchral brass of Nicholas Lord Burnell, that rests on a low tomb on the northern side of this transept. I have already mentioned that after the decease of the prol)able founder of this beautiful chiu'ch, his great possessions went in succession to Philip and Edward Burneh. ]Iaud, the sister of the latter, by her two marriages, conveyed away nmch of the inheritance, and Nicholas Bur- nell, who was her second son In Hiass of Nicholas Burnell.