In stone districts the local material was chiefly employed, and all through the small towns and villages of Somerset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire charming little examples, such as the "Swan" Inn at Lechlade (Fig. 191), may be found here and there. The idea is of the simplest--a door in the middle, with a bay window on each side, crowned with a gable. But the disposition of the small windows, the treatment of the door, and the change from the canted side of the bay to the square base of the gable afforded opportunities for variety and for careful treatment sufficient to render these minor examples well worth attention. MARKET-HOUSES, SCHOOLS, ALMSHOUSES, &c. [Illustration: 192.--DESK IN ALMSHOUSE, CORSHAM, WILTSHIRE.] Most of the work of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries which has come down to us is to be found in houses; but there are a certain number of other buildings left, such as town-halls, market-houses, schools, and almshouses. Of almshouses, or hospitals, as they are often called, there are some excellent examples in many parts of the country. Ford's Hospital, in Coventry, built in 1529, is an extremely good specimen of Late Gothic woodwork; St. John's Hospital, Rye, is another. The almshouses at Corsham, in Wiltshire, are not only very picturesque outside, but contain some capital woodwork inside, of which a reading-desk is illustrated in Fig. 192. Another set, equally substantial and of greater extent, is to be found at Chipping Campden, in Gloucestershire (Fig. 193). The work in these places is simple and substantial; there is no display of ornament, unless perhaps over the entrance, where the donor would place his arms with a certain amount of flourish, partly in carving, partly in inscription; there are no elaborate ceilings nor chimney-pieces, but tables, desks, and chairs of careful design and workmanship have survived in places, and these simple buildings are often valuable in affording examples of plain, unpretentious work. [Illustration: 193.--ALMSHOUSES, CHIPPING CAMPDEN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE.] [Illustration: 194.--MARKET-HOUSE, SHREWSBURY.] [Illustration: 195.--MARKET-HOUSE, WYMONDHAM, NORFOLK (1617).] [Illustration: 196.--MARKET-HOUSE, CHIPPING CAMPDEN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE.]