Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . idge over the Avon. The effigies of William Clopton—clad inarmour—and his wife lie on another al ar-tomb, which was erected about a centurylater than the other. Against the east wall is a huge canopied monument com-memorating Greorge Carew, Earl of Totnes, Baron of Clopton, and his wife, whowas daughter of the aforesaid William. A long inscription records his honoursand offices. He died without issue in 1629. In the southern transept some Early English work remains, as may be seen * He rebuilt the great
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . idge over the Avon. The effigies of William Clopton—clad inarmour—and his wife lie on another al ar-tomb, which was erected about a centurylater than the other. Against the east wall is a huge canopied monument com-memorating Greorge Carew, Earl of Totnes, Baron of Clopton, and his wife, whowas daughter of the aforesaid William. A long inscription records his honoursand offices. He died without issue in 1629. In the southern transept some Early English work remains, as may be seen * He rebuilt the greater part of the chapel of the Holy Cross, which still remaius, close to the site of NewPlace, the house in which Shakespeare died. 344 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Stratford-on-Avon. In tlie vestry. A monument against the west wall also deserves a passing is to the memoy of one Richard Hil, or Hill, a woollen-draper and thrise bailifof this borrow. The inscriptions on liis tomb are written in four languages—Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English. With so much learning, it is not very. THE CHANCEL. surprising that they fail to toll us the date of his death. This, however, appearsto have occurred in 1593. The writer of his epitaph represents him as a manof singular honesty. Let us hope the proverb is not in this case accurate. From beneath the central tower we pass into the spacious chancel, or ratherchoir, of the church, an unusually good example of rather late Perpendicular was erected by Thomas Balsall, who was Dean of Stratford from 1465 to is lofty, and without aisles. On either side are large mullioned windows, Stratfokd-ox-Avon.] SHAKESPEARES TOMB. 345 divided into two tiers by a transom; but in the two eastern bays the lower stage isreplaced by a blank wall, which probably was intended to be covered with frescopaintings or with tapestry. To the northern of these is affixed the noted monu-ment to Shakespeare. A few feet to the south of it, on a raised
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