8 The Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, Salisbury. 



The following year Hugh Chapsion, organ maker of South 

 Molton, was paid £35 5s. Qd. for the new organ, which lasted until 

 1738, when it was replaced by one costing £230. 



In the north window of the Godmanstone aisle there are frag- 

 ments of the glass of a Late Decorated Jesse Window, and a few 

 small fragments remain in the smaller tracery lights of the other 

 north windows. The east window in this chapel was a figure and 

 canopy window, and in each of the two outer lights there still 

 remains the head of an original canopy in white and yellow glass. 



The coloured glass in this chapel is said to be of the latter part 

 of the reign of Edward III. Some are of opinion that this chapel 

 was used by the Mayor and Corporation, as the Guild of St. George, 

 and that the figure of St. George was placed over the chapel screen 

 in the same manner as the image of St. John the Baptist was kept 

 in the Tailors' Chapel, except that, in the case of the Tailors' 

 Chantry, the figure of their patron saint was placed on or above 

 the altar, with a garland of roses upon the head, during the feast 

 of St. John the Baptist. 



The accounts of Bichard Markes and Bobert Eyre, churchwardens 

 1547-8, show payments to 



" Burges Johnson and Lytchfelde for rnakynge clean of the church 

 after the departure of the vysytors xviijc?., and to ij carpenters and iij 

 laborers for takynge downe of the George ij*. viijrf., for breakynge downe 

 of the steles of the ymages in the churche xxijrf., and for the repair of 

 the places where the ymages stood ij*. viijd." 



The fine altar tomb, of Burbeck marble, stood, at one time, 

 beneath the central arch on the north side of the choir. This is 

 said to have been the tomb of the founder of one of the two 

 Godmanstone Chantries, which were in this Church. It bore 

 originally two inlaid brass effigies, and a shield, together with 

 the emblem of the Trinity, symbols of the four evangelists, and a 

 marginal inscription ; presumably these brasses were stripped off 

 the tomb when the ornaments of the Church were seized and sold, 

 and much metal from tombs, &c, was disposed of as old brass. A 

 merchant's mark carved on two sides of the tomb alone remains 

 to help identify the original owner. The white marble slabs which 



