Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . a mural passage, or aisle, on the south side, which opens to thechapel by four foliated arches, corresponding to windows pierced in theouter wall of the castle. A Tudor gallery at the west end serves as a family pew. The supportersof the royal arms, a greyhound and a dragon, were used by Henry Henry VIII. The chapel contains some good late sixteenth-century glass, a fewmediaeval floor and wall tiles (embossed), and funeral escutcheons andbanners. On the walls and roof of this chapel, in the fourteenth-century styl
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . a mural passage, or aisle, on the south side, which opens to thechapel by four foliated arches, corresponding to windows pierced in theouter wall of the castle. A Tudor gallery at the west end serves as a family pew. The supportersof the royal arms, a greyhound and a dragon, were used by Henry Henry VIII. The chapel contains some good late sixteenth-century glass, a fewmediaeval floor and wall tiles (embossed), and funeral escutcheons andbanners. On the walls and roof of this chapel, in the fourteenth-century style ofhandwriting, are passages from the Revelation of St. John, translated fromthe Vulgate by the learned Cornishman, Trevisa, who served as chaplainto three Lords Berkeley from 1357 to 1412. The walls of the chapel are Norman, but the roof and other parts areDecorated. In the reign of Edward III. a bull was obtained fromPope Urban V., 1362-1370, granting spiritual privileges to those whoworshipped in this chapel, and in the Oratory of St. John the Baptist inthe itransactionsofbr28bris
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