Lane's Chapel, in the church just mentioned, is o
of the finest specimens of rich ian-tracery in the county,
and is remarkable for a very singular and apparently
unnoticed arrangement of buttresses in the interior '
of a church ; the pier-archea on the north side of
chapel being supported by buttresses panelled to the
top, with figures of smnts in niches under canopies,
all in good preservation. The whole chapel is fine,
and very superior to Grandisson's, or rather Veyeey's
Chapel, (for it is a century or more later than Grandift-
son,) in Ottery St. Mary Church.
Among the ancient ornaments of churches which
are now in course of restoration must be mentioned
pavement tiles and stained glass ; both of them parts
of that symbolic teaching which, owing to the influ-
ence of Puritan leaven, was well nigh lost. But the
principle that all things in a church should testi^ of
our blessed Saviour, is too sacred to be extinguished ;
and, as on the bells was to be written, " Holiness to ^
the Loi'd," so the very pavement of the sanctuary may H
speak His praises, and the eastern window set forth ^M
His passion and sacrifice. The W*- KnTO\^\«ftx*. ^ M
such tiles is to be seen before Vte uin.a.'t wi.*3^s'MSK«je«.
