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contains a few broken remains of Early English quarried glass, and 
seems to invite restoration by its noble proportions and massive yet 
symmetrical arrangement. 
Beneath the Easternmost of the Arches dividing the Chapel from 
the Nave is an altar tomb, the one side being composed of slightly 
pointed Arches, the other of a series of triangles; upon the tomb 
reposes the effigy of a Knight clad in chain armour, the legs crossed, 
and the feet resting upon an animal, which, may be eithera wild 
cat or a lion.—Upon his left arm is the triangular shield of the 
13th century; his right arm extending across his breast grasps the 
long straight sword, which doubtless in its reality had cloven many 
an infidel’s crest. The figure is of a man in full vigour, of ordinary 
size, and good proportion. His shield carries the arms of Giffard, 
gules, three-lions. passant or; in chief, a label of five points azure; 
upon each point, two Fleur-de-lis of the second. This beyond all 
doubt is the effigy of Alexander Giffard, the Crusader mentioned 
in Matthew Paris, as we shall hereafter show. 
In the centre of the Chapel there stands a small altar tomb of 
later and richer work than any portion of the Chapel.—It appears 
to have contained the body of a female, or child of high rank—the 
tomb is hollowed to form a coffin, 4ft. 1lin. in length. 
The tomb would appear to be of the date of Edward III. and 
may very probably have contained the body of the last of the 
lordly Giffards, the Lady Margaret, whose death would coincide 
with the style of this tomb. The sides of this tomb are adorned 
with canopied niches, from which the figures, probably of alabaster, 
have been removed. 
In the Chapel remain three sedilia and a piscina, still presenting 
the same mixture of Early English and Decorated Architecture, 
which pervades this part of the Church. 
Returning into the body of the Church—we have to mention a 
North Chapel of Decorated structure, the North window is of three 
lights, with purely Decorated tracery above ; there is asmall niche 
in the Eastern side of the Arch which separates the Chapel from 
the Nave. A very magnificent slab of Purbeck Marble formed part 
of the floor of this Chapel, and contained the matrix of a very 
