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From 1489-1499 John Cantlow was Prior of Bath. He built 

 the chancel and part of the court at St. Catherine's and likewise 

 restored the Chapel in HoUoway and rebuilt the hospital adjoining. 

 During his time Aj-chbishop Morton visited Bath.* 



On the east side of the Chapel porch an Inscription in rough 

 rhyme, commemorating the event of the Restoration, can still be 

 read. (See Illustration II.) [It was for many years yellow-washed 

 over, but was cleaned out and re-coloured in 1864 by order of the 

 Charity Trustees]. The words are, 



"®;^gs.t|faptll.florgst^gb"fat.farmosgtt.spettaligU 



|it. {\t. ^onofere. of. m. magbaltn. prior, tanllofir. ^at ^. eirgf gbe 



^ csgrhtg. goto. to. ptag. for.^gm. farf.gofare. prgers-belettabgU. 



% ^at. u\t. faUl-inljabit. ^im. xit. ^etrgn. i\tx. t&gr. to. abgbe.' ' 

 The words are wi'itten on a folding ribbon, the edges of which and 

 first letters of the first words are now coloured red. In the first 

 line the words "Jlorysched with formosyte spectahyll" mean " that it 

 was restored with beauty worth looking at." In the last line the 

 use of the word ^'■inhabit" in the sense of "cause or make to 

 dweU " is noticeable. 



Of the " formosyte spectabyU " or " beauty worth looking at," 

 •with which the good and zealous Prior adorned the chapel, but 

 little, I regret to say, remains, except some fragments of a fine 

 window and some good niches. 



The Window in 1790 is described in CoUinson's Somerset 

 as ilien divided into three compartments with the remains 

 of good painted glass .t (1) In the Jirst compartment was 

 the Virgin Maiy with the Infant Jesus in her arms, and 

 underneath gta ; P^aria, At the top of the same light was the 

 figure of a monk with his crozier, intended perhaps for Prior 

 Cantlow (t) (2) In the middle was our Saviour on the Cross and 

 underneath a large figure of St. Bartholomew with his name ^t. 



* Tanner's Notitia Mon. Warner, p. 133. Hook's Lives of Abps., 



vol. V. p. 456. 



t Collinson, vol. i., p. 173. "Warner, p. 239, note. 



