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Alexander Giffard, the Crusader, who followed Longespee to the 

 Holy Land as equerry, and died in 1250. This supposition would 

 accord fully with the type of work, which I should assign to the 

 third quarter of the 13th century. Mr. Fane ' and Dr. Baron ' give 

 exhaustive accounts of this family of Giffard, who held the manor of 

 Boyton for many generations from shortly after the Conquest, and 

 I need not further refer to it here. The effigy of a cross-legged 

 knight under the easternmost arch, which was evidently constructed 

 to receive it, is no doubt that of Sir Alexander Giffiird, whose arms 

 are borne on his triangular shield ; he wears a long straight sword, 

 and his feet rest on an otter. This figure has been much scraped 

 and defaced, the coat of mail and helmet were doubtless of c/iain 

 armour, like those on the eSigy of his chief, the Earl of Salisbury, 

 in our Cathedral. It is noteworthy that the legs of this effigy are 

 crossed, while those of the one at Salisbury are not. 



The architecture of this chapel is most interesting and instructive. 

 The arcade of two bays opening into the nave consists of segmental 

 pointed arches of two orders, the outer with chamfer carried to the 

 floor and the inner deeply moulded, springing from clustered shafts 

 with very striking moulded caps and bases, the former having a 

 most unusually exaggerated " bell " member. The windows, al- 

 though of one date, are of various types and design, and form a 

 striking instance of lancets contemporary with tracery. In the 

 south wall are three uncusped lancets with cavetto mould and tre- 

 foiled inner arches (which have been ruthlessly cut into for the 

 insertion of corbels to receive the modern roof) and with outside 

 labels, which have been given modern terminals. The east window 

 is a three-light one with Early Geometrical tracery without cusping, 

 very richly and deeply moulded, and with label moulds inside and 

 outside of the same section. In the west wall is a large wheel 

 window, 12ft. in diameter to the outside of the label, the circle 

 being divided by tracery into three segmental triangles, within each 

 of which is described a circle with quatrefoil cusping j in each of the 



> Wills Arch. Mag., vol. i., p. 233. 

 * Jbld, vol. XX., p. 145. 



