d south aisles. The cumbrous stalls were also removed,
and in part refixed in the nave.
The stained glass which fills the clerestory windows of the apse dates
from 1846, and was made by Yarrington. The window in the triforium just
above the altar contains modern stained-glass, dedicated to the memory
of Canon Thurlow.
#Monuments in the Presbytery.#--The monument of Herbert, the first
bishop of Norwich, and the founder of the cathedral, was raised in the
centre of presbytery, before the high altar. It was so much injured
during the time of the Rebellion that a new one was erected in 1682;
this again was levelled, and a slab placed in the floor at the same
place now remains.
In the second bay eastward from the tower (south side), marked 10 on
plan--Bishop Goldwell's (1472-99) chantry, and the altar tomb,
remarkable for the effigy in full pontificals (see illustration). Bloxam
remarks that it is "the only instance of the monumental effigy of a
bishop, prior to the Reformation, in which the _cappa pluvialis_, or
processional cope, is represented as the outward vestment instead of the
casula or chesible." The tomb is placed to the south of the recess; in
the space east was an altar.
In the third bay eastward was Bishop Wakering's (1416-25) tomb, the only
part of which now remaining is visible from the south aisle, and
consists of a series of panels with plain shields and figures two by
two, with the several instruments of the Passion. There were formerly
steps down into the south aisle from this bay. In the same place is a
monument to Bishop Overall (d. 1619).
[Illustration: Detail of the Presbytery Clerestory and Vaulting.]
In the fourth bay (marked 11 on plan) the altar tomb of Sir William
Boleyn of Blickling (d. 1505).
Of the fourth bay eastward from tower on the south side (marked 9 on
plan), Sir Thomas Browne says: "On the north of the choir--_the
presbytery is meant_--between the two arches, next to Queen
Elizabeth's seat, were buried Sir Thomas Erpingham and his wives, the
Lady Joan, etc., whose pictures were in the painted glass windows next
to this place, with the arms of the Erpinghams. The insides of both the
pillars were painted in red colours, with divers figures and
inscriptions from the top almost to the bottom, which are now washed out
by the late whiting of the pillars.... There was a long brass
inscription about the tombstone, which was torn away in the late times,
the name of Erpingham only
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