penser, Earl of
Gloucester).

6. Clare quartering Despenser and impaling France and England
(Constance, the mother of the foundress of the chapel).

On the side next to the aisle--in the basement or lowest portion and
in the first division, three angels bearing shields--(1) as 1 above;
(2) destroyed but presumably as 2 above; (3) as 3 above.

In the second division, two angels bearing shields--(1) as 4 above;
(2) as 5 above.

In the third division, two angels bearing shields--(1) France and
England quarterly in chief.

The arms on the fascia and over the door are, in each compartment,
three:

1. The royal arms of England.

2. The arms of the Clares, Earls of Gloucester.

3. Clare impaling England (Isabel, Countess of Gloucester, and
John, afterwards King of England).

4. Despenser (Hugh, Lord Despenser).

5. Despenser impaling Clare (Eleanor, Countess of Gloucester, wife
of Hugh, Lord Despenser).

6. Clare and Despenser, quarterly, impaling Burghersh (Sir Edward
Despenser, K.G.).

The iron railings were probably removed as being an inconvenience when
the ugly rows of pews, which took up the whole of the choir and
presbytery, were placed in the chancel in 1796.

The Lady Isabelle, after completing this tomb, married the cousin of
her first husband, who was also a Richard Beauchamp. He died in Rouen
in 1439, but his body being brought home by his countess, was buried
in the noble Beauchamp Chapel at Warwick, which is a further
development of that at Tewkesbury. She died in London in the same year
on St. John the Evangelist's Day, as the inscription on the Warwick
Chapel sets forth, and at her own request was buried at Tewkesbury, in
the following January. All traces of her handsome marble tomb have
disappeared, but the site of her grave was identified at the
restoration of the choir in 1875. The site is marked (8) in the plan.

To the east of the Warwick Chantry is the chapel [B] known as the
=Founder's Chapel=. Fitz-Hamon, as already stated on p. 13, was buried
in the Chapter House, but Abbot Forthington removed his body to this
site in 1241.

The open screen-work, which was erected in 1397 by Abbot Parker, is an
excellent specimen of early Perpendicular work. It is extremely light
and graceful. The cresting of oak-leaves is finely wrought; below it
is a frieze ornamented with roses.

It is unfortunate that the brass has disappeared from the marble top
of