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st. george's chapel.
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B. Urswick Chapel, so called from Dr. Christopher Urswick, Dean of
Windsor, who appears to have contributed towards the completion of the chapel.
Resigning this deanery, he retired to his vicarage of Hackney, where he died in
1521, and was there buried. On a stone screen to this chapel are Henry the
Seventh's arms, and an inscription.
C. Rutland Chapel, or the north transept, was founded, and probably
erected, at the expense of Sir Thomas St. Ledger, or Sentlynger, for the interment
of his wife, Anne, Duchess of Exeter, sister of King Edward IV. who died
A. D. 1475. Attached to the north wall of this chapel is a brass plate, charged
with engraved figures of the founder in armour, and his lady in robes. In the
centre is an altar-tomb for George Maners, Lord Roos, (ancestor of the Duke
of Rutland,) and Anne, his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas St. Ledger, and the
Duchess of Exeter. He died October 23, 1513, and she the 22d of April, 1526.
Their effigies, in alabaster, are placed on the tomb, around which are several
figures in niches. Attached to the wall is another brass plate, with enamelling
and engraving on it, to the memory of Dr. Robert Honeywood, Canon of
Windsor, who died in 1522. Other memorials record the names, &c. of Baptist
May, privy purse to Charles II. who died in 1696:—Theodore Aylward, late
Gresham professor of music, who died in 1801.
E. Hastings Chantry corresponds in design and shape with the Oxen-
bridge Chantry : and like that occupies the whole width between two piers of the
choir, though it does not rise to the top of the arch. It consists of an open
screen, with a door-way to the aile, and a flat wall to the choir. Its sides are
ornamented with niches, and it has a groined roof. This chantry was built by
Elizabeth, the wife of William, Lord Hastings, who was chamberlain to Edward
IV. and Master of the Mint, and who was put to death by Richard III.
It is dedicated to St. Stephen ; four incidents of whose life are delineated in an
old painting divided into four compartments at the back. In one, the saint is
represented preaching to a small group of people :—in another he is shewn before
Herod:—a third displays him stoned by the Jews :—and in the fourth, he is shewn
extended on the ground. Beneath each compartment is an inscription.*
F. The Lincoln Chantry, or Chapel, contains a large altar-tomb for
* In Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, vol. II. p. 284, is a print representing an elevation of the screen of this
monument; but it is not very correct in detail; also another engraving shewing the composition of the paintings
at the back.
h. vol. III.
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B. Urswick Chapel, so called from Dr. Christopher Urswick, Dean of
Windsor, who appears to have contributed towards the completion of the chapel.
Resigning this deanery, he retired to his vicarage of Hackney, where he died in
1521, and was there buried. On a stone screen to this chapel are Henry the
Seventh's arms, and an inscription.
C. Rutland Chapel, or the north transept, was founded, and probably
erected, at the expense of Sir Thomas St. Ledger, or Sentlynger, for the interment
of his wife, Anne, Duchess of Exeter, sister of King Edward IV. who died
A. D. 1475. Attached to the north wall of this chapel is a brass plate, charged
with engraved figures of the founder in armour, and his lady in robes. In the
centre is an altar-tomb for George Maners, Lord Roos, (ancestor of the Duke
of Rutland,) and Anne, his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas St. Ledger, and the
Duchess of Exeter. He died October 23, 1513, and she the 22d of April, 1526.
Their effigies, in alabaster, are placed on the tomb, around which are several
figures in niches. Attached to the wall is another brass plate, with enamelling
and engraving on it, to the memory of Dr. Robert Honeywood, Canon of
Windsor, who died in 1522. Other memorials record the names, &c. of Baptist
May, privy purse to Charles II. who died in 1696:—Theodore Aylward, late
Gresham professor of music, who died in 1801.
E. Hastings Chantry corresponds in design and shape with the Oxen-
bridge Chantry : and like that occupies the whole width between two piers of the
choir, though it does not rise to the top of the arch. It consists of an open
screen, with a door-way to the aile, and a flat wall to the choir. Its sides are
ornamented with niches, and it has a groined roof. This chantry was built by
Elizabeth, the wife of William, Lord Hastings, who was chamberlain to Edward
IV. and Master of the Mint, and who was put to death by Richard III.
It is dedicated to St. Stephen ; four incidents of whose life are delineated in an
old painting divided into four compartments at the back. In one, the saint is
represented preaching to a small group of people :—in another he is shewn before
Herod:—a third displays him stoned by the Jews :—and in the fourth, he is shewn
extended on the ground. Beneath each compartment is an inscription.*
F. The Lincoln Chantry, or Chapel, contains a large altar-tomb for
* In Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, vol. II. p. 284, is a print representing an elevation of the screen of this
monument; but it is not very correct in detail; also another engraving shewing the composition of the paintings
at the back.
h. vol. III.