Devon & Cornwall notes & queries . Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 67 placed facing one another, each in a separate panel, andwearing head-dresses of peculiar and fanciful description;here the mans seems to be intended for a helmet toppedby a plume of feathers. There is a third specimen of thesame design in Lapford Church, and some in Down , and in the panelling formerly in the Prideaux houseat Ashburton, referred to by Mr. Amery, it occurs againand again. Similar specimens are given in Mr. GotchsEarly Renaissance Architecture in England, one from a door atCastle Rising, Norfolk,
Devon & Cornwall notes & queries . Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 67 placed facing one another, each in a separate panel, andwearing head-dresses of peculiar and fanciful description;here the mans seems to be intended for a helmet toppedby a plume of feathers. There is a third specimen of thesame design in Lapford Church, and some in Down , and in the panelling formerly in the Prideaux houseat Ashburton, referred to by Mr. Amery, it occurs againand again. Similar specimens are given in Mr. GotchsEarly Renaissance Architecture in England, one from a door atCastle Rising, Norfolk, and some from other places; and heascribes them definitely to Italian influence, and fixes the endof the reign of Henry VIII. as the period of their pre-valence, but Mr. Bligh Bond considers these Lapfordbench-ends to belong to the early part of the 16th century. In No. V. the design is one that refers more directly toFrench influence. In the right-hand panel two semi-foliateddolphins heads turned towards one another form the subj
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