The Pariah Church. 17 



The Chantry Chapel an erection of the Tudor period, has two 

 windows in the east and south walls, each of four lights and divided 

 by a transom. The parapet (the most striking feature in the 

 exterior of the church) is embattled and ornamented with Tudor 

 flowers and panels enclosing quatrefoils, amongst which, on 

 the south side, are two shields ; one bearing the arms of St. Amand, 

 — " Or fretty sahle, on a chief of the second three bezants ;" 

 and the other, those of Beauchamp, — " Gules, a fesse between six 

 martlets or." On the east side of the parapet is a shield, which 

 appears to have a St. Andrew's cross upon it. In the interior, on 

 one side of the east window, is a bracket, which from its size evi- 

 dently supported a large figure, perhaps that of the saint, (who, 

 judging from the shield just referred to, may have been St. Andrew,) 

 to whom the chapel, was dedicated. During some recent repairs, 

 a piscina was discovered in the south wall of the transept. 



The small fragment of stained glass with the initials I. B. in the 

 tracery of the south transept window, together with the two shields 

 just alluded to on the parapet on the same side, seem to point to 

 Sir John Baynton, (who after the death of Sir Richard Beauchamp, 

 Lord St. Amand, in the year 1508, and the failure of male issue, 

 became by marriage the representative of the families of St. Amand 

 and Beauchamp,) as the possible builder, or, at the least, an early 

 restorer of the Chantry Chapel.^ 



■ The following extracts from the pedigrees of the families of St. Amand, 

 Beauchamp, and Baynton, will explain more clearly how the latter family became 

 ultimately the representative of the other two. ' 



Almeric de St. Amand 

 I (4 Hen. iv.). 



William Beauchamp, Eleanor=Sir George Braybrooke. 



(Lord of Powick.) d. & h. I 



I I 



Walter Beauchamp=Elizabeth, d. of Gerard Braybrooke = ... 

 (second son). I Sir John Roche, I 



of Bromham. 



Richard 



Dadley, 



Knt. 



I I I 



Richard, William, =Elizabeth, 



Bishop of Samm. (eldest son, d. 14-57,) I (heiress of Barony of St. Amand.) 

 Bummoned to Par- | 



Hizahcth, liament as Lord I 



(heiress of Richard St. Amand. 



Beauchamp, Lord | 



St. Amand.) Richard Beauchamp, 

 Lord St. .\mand, died s.p. 1508. 



I 

 John, Ja>e= Sik John 



died B.p. 



I Baynton, 



