Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 125 pages of information about Bell's Cathedrals.

Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 125 pages of information about Bell's Cathedrals.
it was destroyed.  In the next chapel, that of the #Four Virgins#, there is nothing to show where the aumbry or the piscina was.  But on the north ’the position of the arcading on the east dividing wall remains.  The #chapel of SS.  Thomas and Edmund# has an arcade on the east wall similar to that in the chapel of S. Clement.  The aumbry is on the north and the piscina on the south side of the position which the altar used to occupy.

The #Rood-Screen# at the entrance to the choir from the nave was erected in 1889, and is a memorial of Archdeacon Walker.  It was designed by Mr. T. Garner.  At the point where the arms of the cross meet is a figure representing the “Agnus Dei,” and at the extremities of the cross are carvings of the four-winged figures of the cherubim.

The #Pulpit# was designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, and is a memorial of Dean Hook.  It is very elaborately carved, and is made of Caen stone and Purbeck marble.  The four figures are intended to represent Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

The #Lectern# of brass was presented to the church as a memorial of Richard Owen, of Chichester, by his daughter.

The #Font# under the south-western tower is a copy of an old one in the church at Shoreham.  It was the gift of Bishop Durnford, as a memorial of his wife.

The #Monuments in the Nave# have in many cases suffered from bad usage, and in most instances they do not now occupy their original places in the building.

The canopied memorial to Bishop Durnford (1), [30] under which is a recumbent effigy, forms part of the screen between S. Clement’s chapel and the south aisle of the nave.  It was designed by Mr. Garner.  There are several tablets in the nave and aisles by Flaxman.  The best are those to the memory of Captain Cromwell’s wife and daughter (2), in S. Clement’s chapel, and one on the north side of the nave, in the chapel of the Four Virgins, as a memorial of Collins (3), the poet, who was a native of Chichester.  The two recumbent figures under the arch leading into this same chapel are said to be those of Richard Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel, and his wife (4).  It was restored by Richardson.  Fitz-Alan was beheaded in 1397.  Some say that these two figures were removed from the chapel of the monastery of the Grey Friars at the time of the Reformation, and were placed in their present position in 1843, having been found embedded in the stonework of the chapel wall close by.  The base upon which the figures rest is modern.  The earl is represented in full armour.  At his feet is a lion, and at his head, under the helmet, is a coronet and a lion’s head.  At the countess’s feet is a dog, and her head rests upon two pillows.

[30] The figures in parenthesis refer to the numbers on the plan at the end.

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