Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales . tached, divided also in the same manner. Thevaulting of the whole is very plain, massive, and semicircular, andsprings at once from the capitals of the columns before mentioned. With regard to the monuments in this Cathedral, that of KingJohn should be first noticed, not, indeed, on account of its an-tiquity, for it is evidently much posterior to the death of thatmonarch, and was probably made at the time when Prince Arthurschantry chapel and tomb were erected, nor for the worthiness ofthe pe
Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales . tached, divided also in the same manner. Thevaulting of the whole is very plain, massive, and semicircular, andsprings at once from the capitals of the columns before mentioned. With regard to the monuments in this Cathedral, that of KingJohn should be first noticed, not, indeed, on account of its an-tiquity, for it is evidently much posterior to the death of thatmonarch, and was probably made at the time when Prince Arthurschantry chapel and tomb were erected, nor for the worthiness ofthe person to whose memory it was then raised, if history may betrusted; but the kindly office is sacred, and commands respect onthat account, however the person bearing it may disgrace it. KingJohn died at Newark-upon-Trent, in the year 1216, and of poison,as some historians relate. However this may be, his body wasconveyed across the country to Worcester, where he had orderedby his will that it should be interred This was an event of nosmall importance to the monastery and see at the time, nor of less. WO fii i M i. (Mill di;,m . local con sequence afterward • Of the funeral ceremonie ? ol the aple tomb erected over hie rem eraoval al 11 r the Reformation, and of the di ? made in t Mr. Green ha recorded man} verj interesting particulars, inHiston of Worce ter, and in a qu rto pamphlet published in \>The tomb is an altar tomb, with the effig) of King John at fulllength upon it, and is placed in the middle of the choir. ,-i !ibelow the Bteps leading to the altar. Prince Arthurs chantrj chapel is perhaps the mosl Buperb andsplendid thing of the Kind in England, although it certainly ihibits some traces of the decline of the pointed Btyle and revivalof the Italian. It was erected in 1504, and its whol<externally and internally, is covered with a profusion of tland rich and elegant sculptured detail. Arthur Tudor, prince of Wales, eld. At the age fin the year 1501, he was m
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