John Lane (clothier)
John Lane (died 1528) was a wealthy cloth merchant, clothier from Cullompton in Devon, remembered today for having built the magnificent ''Lane Chapel'' (or ''Lane Aisle'') on the south side of St Andrew's Church, Cullompton. Due to a misreading of the inscription on the exterior of his Chapel he was said by Richard Polwhele, Polwhele (1793) to have occupied the office of ''Wapentake Custos, Lanarius'', (translated as "Constable of the Hundred (county division), Hundred, wool merchant"). However no historical evidence supports the existence of such an office and the inscription was later correctly re-interpreted by Smirke (1847). Lane Chapel The Lane Chapel is a grand structure of five bays with large windows and a magnificent fan vault, fan-vaulted ceiling. Building work commenced in 1526 (as is stated on the lengthy inscription on the external walls), two years before Lane's death, was continued by his widow Thomasine and finished in 1552, according to an inscription on the e ...
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