Malcolm, James Peller: First Impressions Or Sketches from Art and Nature, Animate and Inanimate (London, 1807)

BRISTOL CATHEDRAL.

tomb, with the effigies of a man in armour and
his lady, alluded to in the following inscription,
placed near it.
" The monument of Robert Fitzharding, lord
of Berkeley, descended from the kings of Den-
mark ; and Eva his wife; by whom he had five
sons and two daughters. Maurice, his eldest son,
was the first of the samily that took the name of
Berkeley. This Robert Fitzharding laid the
foundation of this church and monasterv of St.
Augustine, in the year 1140, the fifth of King
Stephen, dedicated and endowed it in 1148.
44 He died in the year 1170, in the ij of
King Henry II.
<c This monument was repaired A.D. 1742.
" From the said Robert Fitzharding, lord of
Berkeley, Auguslus, the present earl, is the two-
and-twentieth in descent."
The architecture os this chapel evinces a re-
moter date than the rest of the cathedral, and has
a range of arcades on the side, feparated by clus-
tered pillars, and the arches are ornamented with
foliage and busts. Three single columns on the
walls support the vault, intersered by plain
groins. The four windows in the North are each
three pyramidal lancets, faced within by isolated
pillars.