564 List of Altars in Salisbury Cathedral. 



were united or merged in the Gild of St. George, which had its 



"riding" in copes in 1408, "the George" going in procession, 



"harnessed" and making "a conflict with the Dragon." Not im- 



prohahly they visited " oure Lady Church " on that occasion as the 



Tailors' Gild certainly did on " St. John's Day in harvest " (C. 



Haskins, Ancient Trade Guilds, pp. 38 — 40, 111). There was at 



Salishury Cathedral " a holy precious relick of St. Denys " (Salisb. 



Proc, p. 164, cf. p. 35 ibid.) and hefore John Chitterne (archdeacon) 's 



death (1419), and the founding of his altar in 1434, there may 



very well have heen a "morrow-mass" altar of St. Denys, either (a) 



on the same site as was dedicated in honour of St. Denys and St 



Lawrence in 1434, and used for the altar of St. George and St. 



Denys jointly, cir 1450 ; viz., in the north walk of the nave hard by 



the spot where Walter Lord Hungerford's tomb was erected, with 



its altar of the Annunciation, not long .afterwards (A.D. 1449) ( 



within its iron grates which Wyatt removed, cir. 1778, to the 



south-east of the choir and presbytery, — or else (b) close against 



the north side of the (then) stone choir screen, immediately behind 



the stall of the Precentor, or that of his neighbour the Archdeacon 



of Dorset. Mr. A. E. Maiden has shown that a " morning altar ' 



in the first half of the fifteenth century was in the former of thesq 



positions; and we identify it with the altar of St. Denys (Salisb 



Proc. pp. 293 — o). 1 I conclude, then, that altar No. 16 in our list! 



was known as that of St. Denys in the fourteenth century, ancjj 



that the title of St. George was coupled with it afterwards. 



17. — Altar of St. Andrew the Apostle, on the south side [in thi 



body of the Church, before the great cross]. Mr. Maiden helpei 



me, about 1897 — 1901, to establish the identity of the altar of Sn 



Andrew — otherwise called " the altar of the Holy Ghost," aboul 



the middle of the fifteenth century — as situated in the souther) 



walk of the nave near the place where the monument of Bisho 



Walter de la Wyle now stands. John Chedworth, Bishop c, 



1 There was, however, a " sec wnrfemorwe-masseauter " which the Tailor m 

 Gild visited " in oure lady churche " on Midsummer day in 1444, and \vkei ( 

 their priest said "an euen-sang" with them on their return from St. Joh, 

 Baptist's chapel on Harnham (or Aylewater) Bridge. Gild Ledger Soolx 

 f. 4. 



