342 The Burial Places of the Bishops of Salishury. 



Hubert Walter (1189 — 1193) was Bishop of Salisbury for 

 barely four years, and it is doubtful if he ever resided there at all. 

 He was translated to Canterbury in 1193 and died in 1205 at 

 Teynham, in Kent, and was buried "Under one of the windows 

 on the south side of the ambulatory of the Chapel of St. Thomas 

 or Trinity Chapel in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury and 

 opposite to the monument of Archbishop Courtenay " (W. H. St. 

 John Hope). His tomb was opened a few years ago, when Mr. 

 Hope communicated to the Society of Antiquaries an account of 

 what was found. ^ The tomb contained, besides the body of the 

 Archbishop, his crozier, chalice, and paten, the two latter of the 

 middle of the twelfth century and evidently made for use, and 

 not only as funeral furniture, which was often the case. The vest- 

 ments, clothes, buskins, and sandals, were well preserved and of 

 the greatest interest, some of them being the only early examples 

 known. Mr. Hope says that tlie tomb was probably set up by 

 the Archbishop's friend and executor, Elias de Derham, who was 

 a Canon of Salisbury and the architect of Salisbury Cathedral. 

 He was also one of the builders of the shrine of St. Thomas k 

 Becket. The lid of the tomb is formed of slabs of Purbeck marble 

 and has sloping sides and ends like the roof of a house; it is 

 moulded along all the edges and wrought with six square lozenges, 

 four in front and one at each end, those in front being connected 

 by moulded circles. Each lozenge contains within a quatrefoil a 

 head carved in high relief. 



Herbert Poore (1194 — 1217), the next bishop, is believed to 

 have died at Wilton and to have been buried there, but no me- 

 morial of him is known to exist. Canon Eich-Jones thought it 

 possible that one of the thirteenth century effigies in the Cathedral, 

 which there is a difficulty in identifying, might be that of Herbert 

 Poore. His obit was celebrated on the 7th of January. 



EiCHARD Poore (1217 — 1229) succeeded his brother and at 

 once took steps for the removal of the see from Old Sarum and for 

 the building of the present Cathedral. He was translated to 



^ Yetustata Monumenta^ Vol. VII., part I. 



