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without a pilgrimage to Shakespeare’s tomb and birthplace, and 
his wife’s cottage at Shottery. 
After thoroughly doing the Museum, the party left for the 
Church of the Holy Trinity, passing on the way the Memorial 
Theatre and public gardens on tiie banks of the Avon. The 
Church is a magnificent structure, the central tower being the 
oldest part of the 12th century, the Nave and Transepts next in 
date, and the Chancel and Clerestory the latest, being the 
additions when Balsall was Dean of this Collegiate Church, 
1445-91. The Eastern end of the North Aisle was the Lady 
Chapel, and contains now the tombs of the Clopton Family. Sir 
Hugh Clopton, Lord Mayor of London 1492, brought the wealth 
to the family, and is here buried. William Clopton and his wife 
who died in 1592 and 1596, lie on a tomb to the North, and their 
six children stand in niches above them. The third Joyce 
married George Carew, Earl of Totness, and their gorgeous altar 
tomb is against the East Wall, both wearing gold coronets and 
coloured to the life. He was Master of the Horse to James I, 
and died 1629. The Eastern end of the South Aisle was the 
Chapel of S. Thomas 4 Becket, dedicated in 1333 by John de 
Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury. The Choir and Swell 
Organ are now placed against this wall and the Great Organ over 
the tower arch in an elegant balcony, the whole being played by 
electro-pneumatic action from below. The chancel is a beautiful 
structure of Perpendicular architecture, inclining to the North 
from the line of the Nave, and contains the well-known bust of 
Shakespeare and his tomb and those of Dean Balsall, Ann 
Shakespeare (nee Hathaway), Susanna Hall, youngest daughter of 
the Poet, and her husband Dr. Hall, Thomas Nashe, who was 
first husband to their only daughter, afterwards the wife of Sir 
John Barnard, and the last surviving descendant of Shakespeare, 
besides the tombs of John a Combe, 1614, his daughter Judith, 
1649, John Kendall, 1751, and others. The eleven windows are 
filled with stained glass, the third, on the North side, being the 
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