The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and ArchitectureDitchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
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The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and Architecture
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
Cathedrals -- Great Britain; Church architecture -- Great Britain
2. Bishop Jocelyn (1184), which was brought from Old Sarum (the
head is later than the rest).
3. Bishop Roger (1139), which was brought from Old Sarum.
(There is some uncertainty about the identity of these.)
4. Incised slab to an unknown personage.
5. Bishop Beauchamp (1481), whose chantry was destroyed by
Wyatt.
6. Robert, Lord Hungerford (1459), whose chantry was destroyed
by Wyatt. Notice the plate armour and collar of saints, also
sword and dagger.
7. Lord Stourton, hung in the market-place in 1556 for the
murder of the Hartgills, accomplished in a brutal fashion. He
was hung, as a concession to his noble birth, with a silken
cord. The "wells" on each side allude to the six heads of the
Stour river, which rise near the Stourton mansion.
8. Bishop de la Wyle (1271), mutilated. The base is made up of
fragments of much later date.
9. William Longespée, first Earl of Salisbury of that name,
son of Henry II. by Fair Rosamond (1226). Notice the
chain-armour and surcoat, shield with arms of Anjou, and the
decoration of the tomb--silver diaper work. He fought in the
Crusades and in France, and was present at the signing of Magna
Charta.
Crossing to the north side we see the monuments of--
10. Sir John Cheyney (1509), standard-bearer of Henry of
Richmond at battle of Bosworth, unhorsed by Richard III.
11.} Walter, Lord Hungerford, and his wife.
12.}
13. Sir John de Montacute (1389), fought at Creçy and in
Scotland under Richard II. Notice armour, especially gauntlets.
14. Chancellor Geoffrey.
15. Person unknown.
16. Longespée, Earl of Salisbury (1250), son of the
above-mentioned earl, a Crusader killed by the Saracens. The
fact that this is a cross-legged effigy does not prove that all
cross-legged effigies represent Crusaders.
17. "Boy Bishop," the great attraction of the ordinary visitor
and tourist. The ceremony of the boy bishop is well known. One
of the choir boys was elected on St. Nicholas Day, and presided
until Innocents' Day, and a special service and procession took
place during his rule. The old idea was that this boy died
during his brief episcopacy, and was thus honoured with an
effigy. It is now generally believed that such small figures
represent heart burials. In bygone times the body was usually
buried at the place where the person died, and not infrequently
the heart was conveyed to the special church associated with
the family or life of the deceased. The library, however,
contains the order of service of boy bishop, and the ceremony
lingered on until the time of Elizabeth.
18. Person unknown.
Near the entrance is a monument to Dr. Turburville, an oculist of
Salisbury (1696).
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