_Enfield Church_ (Vol. viii., p. 352.).--Your correspondent is quite wrong
as to the date of this building. The nave is separated from the north and
south aisles by an arcade of five arches of undoubted Middle Pointed work;
not later than the beginning of the fourteenth century, to which date also
belongs the east window of the chancel: the "clere-story," which has the
device of a rose and wing (not _ring_), is probably of the date assigned to
the whole church by your correspondent. The south aisle was much altered
about forty years ago, the windows of which are a bad imitation of those in
the north aisle. In making alterations to the chancel in 1852 the piscina,
and a portion of the sedilia, a drawing of which is given in _The Builder_,
vol. x. p. 797., with a window over, were brought to light. They belong to
the First Pointed period, or about the latter part of the twelfth century;
clearly showing that a portion, at least, of the church is of the
last-mentioned date.
I have always understood that the wing and rose, on the walls of the
clere-story, was the cognizance of Abbot Wingrose of Waltham.