The cathedral church of Chichester; a short history & description of its fabric with an account of the diocese and see . ent upwards slightly towards the each of the long sides of the base supporting the figureare six elongated quatrefoil panels, containing in all sixfemale figures and six shields. Between the quatrefoils arewinged heads of ten angelic figures. The blazoning of theshields is entirely gone, and the brilliant colouring that oncecovered the entire monument is only to be traced in a fewplaces. The outer robe still shows some signs of the richblue with which it used to be c
The cathedral church of Chichester; a short history & description of its fabric with an account of the diocese and see . ent upwards slightly towards the each of the long sides of the base supporting the figureare six elongated quatrefoil panels, containing in all sixfemale figures and six shields. Between the quatrefoils arewinged heads of ten angelic figures. The blazoning of theshields is entirely gone, and the brilliant colouring that oncecovered the entire monument is only to be traced in a fewplaces. The outer robe still shows some signs of the richblue with which it used to be covered. The face of the figureappears to be badly mutilated, but the damage to thefeatures has been done principally by an endeavour to preservethem. A thick coat of plaster had been placed over the faceto protect it from injury, perhaps in the seventeenth centuryor earlier, and this was never completely removed. It had THE INTKRIOR. 87 become gradually polished like the material of the figureitself, and so it remains, with a cut across it, to represent amouth. The remains of the real face arc still hidden S. B. Bo/a /,/ SACRISTY (SEE P. 90). Close to this effigy, but in the aisle farther to the east, andon the north wall, are two admirable memorial tablets whichwere designed in the eighteenth century. One is in memory 88 CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL. of Dean Hayley and his wife (6), and tlie other in memory ofHenry Baker and his wife and their only child (7), who, bycomparison with the other tablet, appears to have been asecond wife of the same Thomas Hayley. Close to the porch in the south aisle is the only completeold brass in the building (8). It is dated 1592, and recordsthe fact that Mr. William Bradbridge was thrice Maior ofthis Cittie, and had vi sonnes & viii daughters. Theother monuments in the nave are those of Matthew Quantock,Dean Cloos, Bishop Arundel, and William Huskisson,sometime member of Parliament for Chichester. One onthe south side of the west po
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