214 Bradford-upon- Avon. [Parish Church. 
which had been fixed on the face of the wall immediately in front 
of it. The whole of the ornamental work had been previously 
destroyed, and the recess filled up, to enable the marble-mason to 
attach the slab in question to the wall. The effigy is a female 
figure, the costume of which,—(one feature being the ewimple, or 
handkerchief round the neck and chin,)—fixes the probable date of 
it in the time of Edward I., or about 1280—1800. A small 
figure of the head of a female,—habited in like manner with the 
wimple,—was a short time ago discovered during the progress of 
some repairs to the tomb, which was clearly a corbel of the label 
that formerly went round the outer arch. As to whose tomb it 
may be, we have no certain clue at all. From the ancient deeds, 
to which reference has been made in a previous page (31), we 
might, in the absence of any definite information, hazard a plau- 
sible conjecture. Even at the middle of the 13th century the ‘ Hall’ 
family, as they were in course of time designated, were persons of 
consequence and property in Bradford. Living, as we know they 
did, in the Town, and in a ‘Mansion House,’ on the site probably of 
the presext Kingston House, it is not a little remarkable that there 
is no memorial in the Church, to which we can certainly point as 
referring to members of this family;—and yet nothing should we 
look for more naturally. As then we find, from a deed which bears 
date,—(for reasons which we have specified (p.31)—from 1247-1252, 
that at that time “Agnes’ is represented as the ‘relict’ of ‘Reginald de 
Aula,’and seems, (we may also infer)to have been left a comparatively 
young widow, her children being under age, there is no improba- 
bility in the supposition that the tomb, of which we are speaking, 
may be hers. Till her children became of full age, she appears to 
have been the head of the family in Bradford. Though, of course, 
all is conjecture, still, the probable date of the tomb,—the high 
position she herself held,—the fact that she might well have been 
living at the close of the 13th century,—all lend colour to the sup- 
position, that this recessed tomb on the north side of the Chancel 
may be that of ‘Agnes de Aula.’ 
Of the recessed tomb on the south side of the Chancel, with its 
elegant and cusped canopy within, and its curious gable and small 
