It was finished in the year 1320, as appears in certain lines which run round the pulpit and read thus: "laudo Deum verum, per quem sunt optima rerum Qui dedit has puras homini formate figuras; Hoc opus, his annis Domini sculpsere Johannis Arte manus sole quandam, natique Nicole.
"The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)"
Giorgio Vasari
He had, among other elegancies about the park and gardens, been made to observe a temple to the winds, when this thought naturally presented itself to a wit: "Gratum animum laudo; Qui debuit omnia ventis, Quam bene ventorum, surgere templa jubet!"
"Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life"
Hesther Lynch Piozzi