Hunt, Thomas Frederick; Moyes, James [Oth.]: Exemplars of Tudor Architecture, Adapted To Modern Habitations: With Illustrative Details, Selected From Ancient Edifices; And Observations on the Furniture of the Tudor Period (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, And Green, 1830)

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walls with spots, they were selected, as being more valuable than the
others, and wrought into devices, relieving the plainness of those piers or
surfaces which had neither apertures nor stone dressings. Many ex-
amples of this kind of ornament could be given, but perhaps those in the
boundary walls of the ancient manor-house at Bermondsey, referred to
by Mr. J. C. Buckler, in his interesting account of Eltham Palace,
recently published, are the most striking. They consisted of lozenges,
with crosses upon their upper points; cross-keys and sword (the arms
of the see of Winchester); the sacred cross, curiously constructed; the
cross of St. Andrew; intersected triangles, in allusion to the Holy
Trinity; the globe and cross; the merchant’s mark; the badge of the
borough of Southwark; and the representation of the west front of a
church, comprising a centre, with a Norman arch under a gable,
between two towers, whose pointed roofs terminated in crosses. This
rude figure was seven feet eight inches long; and Mr. Buckler con-
jectures that it preserved an imperfect idea of the sacred edifice of
Norman architecture which once occupied that site.