F. _Elevation of the choir_, which is divided into two equal portions by a flat buttress, flanked on each side by a slender cylindrical column. Of these parts, one is quite plain, except only the corbel-table and ornamented frieze below. The other has two arches, recently blocked up, similar to those of the nave, but with a richer exterior moulding. The door below these has the same peculiarity, in the drip-stone rising from sculptured heads, as in the western entrance. The frieze beneath the corbels very much resembles that in the same situation in the church of the Holy Trinity, (see _plate thirty-one_,) and is likewise continued over the buttresses, as well as along the receding part between. NOTES: [116] Figured in _Britton's Architectural Antiquities_, III. pl. 2. [117] Figured in _Turner's Tour in Normandy_, II. p. 295. [118] _Britton's Norwich Cathedral_, p. 33, pl. 6. [119] _Britton's Architectural Antiquities_, III. p. 80. [120] _Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet_, V. [121] _Ancient Architecture_, pl. 24.--In the description of this building, page 33, Mr. Carter speaks of it as being of _Saxon_ origin; and, in the chronological table attached to his work, he classes it in the third of the four æras into which he divides his specimens of _Saxon_ architecture. [122] A still more remarkable example occurs in Essington church, Gloucestershire, figured by Carter, in his _Ancient Architecture_, pl. XV. fig. X. The transom-stone is there formed of part of an octagon, rising from an horizontal torus moulding, which finishes in a spiral direction round two heads. A lion and a griffin fill the space within. PLATE LX. AND LXI. CHURCH OF FONTAINE-LE-HENRI, NEAR CAEN. [Illustration: Plate 60. CHURCH OF FONTAINE-LE-HENRI NEAR CAEN. _North side of the Chancel._] The parish of Fontaine-le-Henri lies about eight miles north of Caen, immediately adjoining Than, whose church has already been figured in this work. The register of the livings appertaining to the diocese of Bayeux, made about the year 1350, and commonly known by the name of the _livre pelut_, (_liber pelutus_, or the _parchment book_,) contains only the following brief notice of it:--"Ecclesia de Fontibus Henrici LX Libras.--Dnus dicte ville.--Archidiaconatus de Cadomo.--Decanatus de Dovra." In the _Gallia Christiana_, and other similar works, no mention whatever is made of this parish.