e, spared no expense in causing this beautiful work to be made.

The chapel consists of two parts or stories, the lower of which has a
door into the north aisle as well as into the choir. The lowest
portion or base on either side consists of figures of angels, much
mutilated, bearing shields.

The chantry has two roofs, both with fine vaulting, formerly richly
painted, but the lower roof only covers the western half of the
chapel. The pendent bosses have been destroyed. At the top the canopy
work is so delicately sculptured that it resembles lace.

The lower ceiling, extending over half the chapel, consists of large
and small circles. Of these, the larger ones are ribbed with sixteen
ribs, while the smaller ones are quatrefoils, each member being
composed of a trefoil with an elegantly carved cusp. Between these
smaller circles are still smaller ones composed of quatrefoils. This
ceiling is supported by two slender shafts. Along the exposed front of
the ceiling are four double cinquefoil arches, between which were
three busts. Of these, one only, viz., an angel with a scroll,
remains.

In the upper storey of the chapel the ceiling is made up of hexagons
and octagons, the intervening space being filled up with circles,
trefoils of irregular shapes, though symmetrically disposed, and
quatrefoils. The points of the pendant have been ruthlessly destroyed.

[Illustration: _Photo. A.H. Hughes._
THE WARWICK CHAPEL.]

Of this chantry Mr. Knight wrote: "There can be but one opinion on the
praise which belongs to the exquisiteness of finishing by which the
several parts of it are distinguished; the entablature, wedged between
two of the old pillars of the choir, and appearing to rest upon light
columnar buttresses of singular beauty, give us an assemblage of
filigree and fretwork, which may vie with the finest specimens of
similar workmanship in the kingdom: the elegant palm-leaved parapet,
which occurs in the division between the storeys,--the numerous
escutcheons blazoned in their proper colours,--the niches, and
pedestals, under their respective canopies, once ornamented with
figures which fanaticism has dislodged,--the slender shafts supporting
a higher apartment, probably the rood-loft, in the inside of the
fabric, from whence half-figures of angels are seen to issue,--the
pendants dropping, like congelations in a grotto, from a roof adorned
with the most delicate tracery spread over it like a web,--these and a