Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . as the High Cross or simplythe Cross. If any one will stand at this spot withhis back to the Court House he will have ChurchStreet and St. Marys Church facing him ; on hisright down Jury Street he will see one of the oldgates of the town, viz. the East Gate, with Chapel above it ; on his left up High Street,called in Elizabeths days High Pavement, he willsee another gate, the West Gate, with St. JamessChapel above it. Both these gateways, at the timeof the commencement of the Black Book, were in aruinous condition,
Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . as the High Cross or simplythe Cross. If any one will stand at this spot withhis back to the Court House he will have ChurchStreet and St. Marys Church facing him ; on hisright down Jury Street he will see one of the oldgates of the town, viz. the East Gate, with Chapel above it ; on his left up High Street,called in Elizabeths days High Pavement, he willsee another gate, the West Gate, with St. JamessChapel above it. Both these gateways, at the timeof the commencement of the Black Book, were in aruinous condition, and most of the town walls weredown. The North Gate, which stood in NorthgateStreet, had even at that time disappeared. The Castlestood for the South Gate. The beautiful Chancel ofSt. Marys, the Vestry and Chapter House, and theBeauchamp Chapel were much the same as atpresent. Opposite to the Chapter House a door,now filled up by a cupboard, led into the Chancel,and the screen dividing the lobby from the Vestrywas not then pierced for a doorway. In the south- 268. Frovi a painting by Ziiccaro in the National Portrait Gallery. Photo by Walker &^ ELIZABETH. Painted about the time q/heruisit to Wariuick Castle. Warwick Castle ?- east angle of the South Transept there was a circularstaircase leading to an organ loft at the west end ofthe Beauchamp Chapel. The body of the Church,which covered nearly the same area as the existingone, consisted of nave, aisles and transepts, ofshallower projection than the present ones, the navehaving four bays, and being lighted by six clerestorywindows, and in the walls of each aisle were threewindows. The transept windows were large andhandsome, and somewhat similar to the Chanceleast window. At the east end of the South Aislestood the large altar tomb, with canopy over, ofThomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, who built thenave in the latter half of the 14th century, and ofhis Countess, but this was destroyed in the great bras
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