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There is a good view to be obtained from Thorpe’s Tower, on 
the opposite side of the keep. The ground level of the keep, as 
may be seen by looking through the breach made by Cromwell, 
is many feet higher than that of the court. It is probable that 
the walls of the keep were built round a previously existing 
mound, in connection with the Nunnery which so long occupied 
this site. 
After luncheon at the Berkeley Arms Hotel, the party were 
conducted over the Church by the courteous Vicar, Canon Stack- 
house, who pointed out its noteworthy features. The west front 
is very fine, though the gable is gone, and the effect of the long 
nave and lofty chancel, with its screen and grand arch, is very 
fine. The arcades probably date from the 13th century, the font 
is earlier. The capitals of the pillars are finely carved. The 
clerestory being on the south side only is a peculiar feature. 
The Mortuary Chapel of the Berkeleys is full of beautiful carving. 
It is entered from outside the Church. It contains the effigies of 
Henry, 7th Lord Berkeley, and his first wife (17th century) and 
those of James, r1th Lord, founder of the chapel, and his second 
son James (15th century). On a pinnacle over the chapel is a 
figure of the Witch of Berkeley. But the interesting features of 
the church are too numerous to be specified here. 
Passing a small Irish yew, in which the vicar pointed out a 
thrush’s nest containing two eggs, Canon Stackhouse took the 
party to his garden, near the belfry tower, built on the site of the 
former tower in 1753, and pointed out the summer house in 
which Jenner is said to have vaccinated his first patients, the cow, 
from which the lymph was taken, being tethered close by. 
Jenner’s father was vicar of Berkeley, and Jenner himself is 
buried there. The present vicar raised subscriptions and erected 
a fine stained east window to his memory in the church. 
Smith, in his “Lives of the Berkeley Family,” tells us that 
Queen Elizabeth, in her progress in the 15th year of her reign, 
“came to Berkeley Castle, what time Henry Lord Berkeley, the 
