By Chr. Wordsworth, M.A. 569 



and previously Master of St. Nicholas' Hospital) to the south of 

 St. Stephen's chapel (near the Somerset monument), has one niche 

 for an image, 1523. Bp. Audley's chapel t 1524 has space for at 

 least thirty images in niches, hesides six turrets or finials which 

 might be surmounted by saints or angels. Mr. Dorling considers 

 that there were images formerly on Bishop Metford's monument. 

 The bases are, however, not well defined. The like might, no 

 doubt, be said of a small pedestal against the column behind the 

 Bishop's throne. The series of five larger niches (four and one) in 

 a line with the last-named pedestal, are (so far as I can see) the 

 only ones now extant to the south of the quire; and thus these are 

 the only ones in any way answering to the description of either of 

 the three lists of royal personages in our MS. But although these 

 niches might be said to be situated "in australi parte chori Sar'," 

 it seems to me unlikely that they should have contained the six 

 figures, so described, (namely the royal persons, beginning with 

 K. Edward I.), as the westermost pedestal is so small in proportion 

 to the rest and so different in character that I can hardly snppose 

 that even the girl-queen Isabella would be placed there ; besides 

 which there seem to be no places in any way corresponding to these 

 niches, for accommodating any stone figures of the fourteen earlier 

 (Saxon,Norman, and Angevine) kings anywhere in the "inner choir." 

 Nor are there wall-spaces in the choir convenient for such a series 

 of portraitures as a brush or pencil, or the art of tapestry, might 

 delineate on the flat. 1 



After some consideration I am inclined to think that the figures 

 in our list were introduced into the stall- work of the choir at 

 Salisbury. 



At Lincoln some such wooden figures of royal personages are 

 still extant. They are now eight in number, and they occur in 

 some of the panels fronting the seats of the " children of the choir." 

 The late Canon Wickenden, of Lincoln, attributed these wood- 

 carvings to the stall-work which John de Welburne was instru- 

 mental in providing in 1362, while he was Treasurer of Lincoln, 



1 The figures of four bishops were painted on the wall of the N.E. tran- 

 sept at Lincoln by Damini in 1728. A long series of Bishops on the N. 

 and of Kings and Queens on the S. transept at Chichester by Bernardi in 

 1519. These last were destroyed when the spire fell in 1861. 



