96 Hungerford Chapels in Salisbury Cathedral. 



When this Chapel was originally built, in order to make the 

 interior uniform, one of the buttresses against the outside of the 

 north wall of the Lady Chapel was removed. This operation, and 

 the opening of a large space in that wall to admit Lord Hunger- 

 ford's monument, was reported by Mr. Price to be dangerous to the 

 Lady Chapel. However, things remained as they were for thirty- 

 six years after Mr. Price's report. By the year 1789 the Hungerford 

 Chapel, which in its original state must have been very beautiful, 

 had fallen into neglect and dilapidation. The Cathedral authorities 

 repaired it from time to time, but it had survived the family whose 

 name it bore. The wreck of the eldest line of the Hungerford 

 family took place in Charles II. 's reign, and the very name had 

 almost become extinct in England by the year 1750, or thereabouts. 

 No one seemed to take further interest in maintaining it, and it had 

 actually been turned by one of the vergers to the base uses of a 

 cellar or lumber room. In 1789, when great alterations were made 

 in the Cathedral, and the Lady Chapel was thrown open to the 

 choir, in order to make that improvement complete, sentence of 

 entire demolition was passed both upon the Hungerford Chapel, 

 on the north side, and on a corresponding one, which, from the 

 engravings of it, seems to have been exquisitely beautiful, the 

 Beauchamp Chapel on the south side. Mr. Wyatt urged as an 

 argument for removing them, the want of uniformity between these 

 Chapels and the rest of the Cathedral, and the danger which 

 threatened the walls of the Church, by the removal of buttresses 

 and columns. The two Chapels were accordingly taken bodily 

 away, and the monuments, or what little remained of them, ordered 

 to be removed into the Cathedral. 



Some portions of the ornamented sculpture of the Chapel have 

 been, I believe, introduced into the stone work at the east end of 

 the Lady Chapel. The monument of Lady Hungerford, which 

 stood in the centre, seems to have disappeared altogether ; Death 

 and the Gallant, and the Doctor in his Parliament Robes, were of 

 course scraped off the wall : and the only sepulchral memorial 

 now to be seen of the perpetual foundation of poor Lady Hunger- 

 ford and Botreaux, is part of the monument of her husband. 



