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retain " misericords " most fantastically carved.* The vaulting of the 

 choir was added 1502-20. On the north is the Chantry Chapel of the 

 Countess of Salisbury, Margaret Pole, beheaded 1541 by the cruel 

 tyrant, Henry VIII. The ornamental work of the chapel of the 

 Countess of Salisbury at Christ Church is supposed to be by 

 Torrigiano. The Heraldic work was ordered to be defaced by 

 Henry VIII., because she was the mother of Cardinal Pole ; she was 

 executed because she would not disclose the retreat of her son, who 

 was supposed to have stirred up the rebellion in Yorkshire. The 

 Countess was granddaughter of the Earl of Warwick, the King 

 Maker. She married Sir Richard Pole. Henry VIII. seized all the 

 members of Cardinal Pole's family. Cardinal Pole had written 

 against Henry in bis Book on the Unity of the Church, " in which 

 he inveighed against the King's supremacy." t She was buried in 

 the Tower of London, in S. Peter's Church, not in the tomb which 

 she had designed for her resting place at Christ Church. 



Eastward is the reredos, having as its subject the Tree of Jesse, 

 David with his Harp, Solomon in his Glory, and the Epiphany. The 

 other subjects, viz.. The Death, Coronation and Assumption of the 

 Virgin, have been removed to the aisle. Two doors open eastward on 

 a small gallery. 



The Hary's Chantry (date 1525) is in the south aisle. Prior Draper's 

 Chapel at the E. end has a stone screen (1552). 



On the N. side there are the effigies of the two Chidiockes (1449) in 

 alabaster ; this monument was originally in the N. transept. J 



The Lady Chapel is Perpendicular work of the end of the 14th 

 century. It has a rich traceried vault like that of the choir, a 

 mutilated reredos, and the old altar slab of Purbeck marble, one of 

 the few ancient altars now remaining in England, and the old 

 "sedilia" still remain. Above is the chapel of S. Michael, 

 approached by covered stairs from the outside. This was formerly 



* See description in "Bright's Guide to Bournemouth," p. 115, which 

 contains a very good account of tlie Priory Church. Also " History of Hantc," 

 by Theod. Wilks, vol. iii., p. 102 and following. 



, t See " Hume's History of England." 



t See "Wilk's History of Hants," vol. iii. 



