340 The Burial Places of the Bishops of Salisbury. 



south side " while the shrine was a makyng." This is near where 

 the stone with the date MXCIX is now placed on the bench 

 between the Lady Chapel and the south aisle of the choir, at the 

 end of which St. Stephen's altar formerly stood. In later times^ 

 when St. Osmund began to acquire the reputation of sanctity, a 

 shrine was erected, and it is probable that the tomb now standing 

 on the bench of the nave under the third arch from the east be- 

 tween the nave and the south aisle is a part of St. Osmund's shrine. 

 This tomb is called in the guide books that of Lord Stourton. Thi& 

 is a mistake, which I think must have arisen from Lord Stourton's 

 tomb having stood near to that of St. Osmund in the Lady Chapel. 

 Lord Stourton was executed in 1557, but the dace of this tomb is 

 many centuries earlier than that ; moreover there are on each side 

 of it three openings, or " foramina," quite large enough to admit a 

 man's head and shoulders ; openings of this kind are usual in 

 shrines, their purpose being for the exhibition of relics ; and in the 

 account of the miracles of St. Osmund we are told of miraculous 

 cures following the insertion of the head and hands of the sufferer 

 in the " foramina " of St. Osmund's tomb. The translation of St. 

 Osmund was celebrated on the 16th of July and his obit and de- 

 position on the 4th of December. 



The successor to Sfc. Osmund was Roger (1107 — 1139), sometimes 

 called The Greac. Bishop Eoger was first buried at Old Sarum 

 and his bones were brought thence, with those of Osmund and 

 Jocelin to the new Cathedral. On the bench between the nave 

 and the south aisle, at the west end of the Cathedral, there are 

 two effigies of bishops which are usually considered those of Bishops 

 Eoger and Jocelin, while there is a difference of opinion as to which 

 of them either effigy represents. These two effigies were in their 

 present positions before Wyatt's alterations, and in the plan of 

 the Cathedral made about 1733, a copy of which is prefixed to 

 Chambers' Divine Worship in England in the xiiith, xivth and 

 xixth Centuries^ Bishop Roger's resting-place is marked as being 

 under an arch in the north wall of the north choir aisle. Under 

 this arch is a grave covered by a slab with a plain cross upon it, 

 beneath which, resting on the bench, is a skeleton without a head. 



