Sharington's prior to his death in 1553, the whole idea and its mode of execution is unusually early, strap-work being associated as a rule with a period fifteen or twenty years later. The consoles carrying the projection of the base are an additional feature, and the whole group is carefully designed. The notion, however, of making the chimney-flue into a column and taking a short length of entablature as a cap is hardly satisfactory, and a more reasonable type was employed at Kirby (Fig. 118), while throughout the stone district of the Midlands the usual form is that in Fig. 119, a form which, with modifications, has lingered on even down to the present day. A somewhat ornamental variety of the same idea is to be seen at Chipping Campden (Fig. 120), and another variation at Drayton House, in Northamptonshire (Fig. 121). The quaint triangular chimney of the Triangular Lodge at Rushton (Fig. 122) is really the same in principle, but its unusual apex and carved panels place it in a class by itself. The brick chimneys of Elizabeth's time have straight stalks and an oversailing cap of thin bricks, occasionally varied with still thinner courses of tiles. The profile is nearly always the same, but considerable variety is imparted by varying the plan, and by adding square or triangular projections to the plain faces of the flues. A simple but effective example may be seen at Bean Lodge, near Petworth (Fig. 123). More elaborate specimens are found at Knole House and Cobham Hall, in Kent; Blickling Hall, in Norfolk (Plate XXXVII.); at Moyns Park, in Essex, and indeed on almost every brick house of the time. [14] _Nichols' Progresses of Queen Elizabeth_, Vol. I. (1566). [Illustration: PLATE XXXVI. LACOCK ABBEY, WILTSHIRE. CHIMNEY-STACK AND WINDOW.] [Illustration: 119.--TYPICAL CHIMNEY IN THE MIDLANDS.] [Illustration: 120.--CHIMNEY AT CHIPPING CAMPDEN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE.] [Illustration: 121.--CHIMNEY AT DRAYTON HOUSE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE (1584).] [Illustration: 122.--CHIMNEY AT TRIANGULAR LODGE, RUSHTON, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE (1595).] Blickling Hall affords examples of many of the features which have been described. It has fine stacks of chimneys, curved gables, and pierced parapets over the windows; on each gable is a dainty little statue. The front doorway is richly embellished, and over it are the owner's arms set forth with much heraldic display. Classic features are used with moderation and restraint; a cornice marks the level of the first floor; other cornices crown the bay windows; and columns flank the archway. But they are all used because they answered the designer's purpose, and not because he hoped by loading his building with classic features to give it a character which, without such help, he was powerless to impart. [Illustration: 123.--BEAN LODGE, PETWORTH, SUSSEX.] RAIN-WATER HEADS.