568 List of Kings and Queens in Salisbury Cathedral. 



choir," or " on the right " and " left side of the inner choir " (in\ 

 terioris chori") are not extant; nor do I know of any record off 

 their former existence, in effigy, at this Cathedral, save in the 

 list hefore us. It is not specifically noted in the list whether the 

 representations were figures of wood or stone, or portraitures ii9 

 glass, or whether they were or were not displayed on panels or in 

 paintings on the walls. Although the MS. speaks only of the! 

 " names" of these royal persons, it seems most probahle that some-1 

 thing more than a mere list of names on labels or in three tablets! 

 is thereby intended to be understood. 



The stone corbels at present visible do not answer to the de- 

 scription in the MS. At Wells there is a figure of K. Ina, their 

 founder (on the west front, which, as Canon Church informs us,; 

 was finished in 1239 by Bp. Joceline, possibly from the design of 

 Elias de Derham). But at Salisbury these representations of royal 

 personages were in the interior of the Church. The corbels, or 

 niches, now discernible in Salisbury Cathedral,are fairly numerous. 

 On the perpendicular arches which were introduced on the north 

 and south of the crossing of the great transept with a view to 

 strengthening the tower when the spire was raised above it, there 

 are sixteen. There were ten tall niches on the western screen of the 

 choir besides twelve spaces in the upper tiers, according to James 

 Biddlecombe's View, engraved in 1754 by J. S. Muller. The ten 

 niches originally in the western face of the thirteenth century 

 choir screen have been fitted into the west of the morning chapel 

 by Wyatt with the doorway, taken from the late fifteenth centiuy 

 Beauchamp chantry chapel, placed neatly, though incongruously, 

 between them. Wyatt also removed twenty niches or stalls from 

 their original position as parts of the Beauchamp chantry chapel 

 to the north and south of the Lady Chapel, where they look like 

 (impracticable) stalls. 1 The altar tomb of W. Wilton (Chancellor 



1 Although the Lady Chapel where these niches now are placed might I 

 conceivably have been called the " inner choir," this seems a most unnatural i 

 name for the Chantry Chapel which stood at its side from the middle of | 

 the xvth century till the latter part of the xviiith, and therefore was non- i 

 existent in A.D. 1400. Moreover, these niches are arranged in uniform j 

 sets of five, whereas the names of the 20 ;t Kings " are 7 + 7 + 6. 



