e effigy lies, now unfortunately concealed
by a coat of plaster, of which sufficient has been removed to prove that
Gough's description of the original state of the painting is correct. He
says, 'The Virgin is represented sitting, crowned with a nimbus; a lady
habited in a mantle and wimple kneeling on an embroidered cushion offers
to her a church built in the form of a cross, with a central spire--and
behind the lady kneel eleven or twelve religious, chanting a gorge
deployee after the foremost, who holds up a book, on which are seen
musical notes and "salve sca parens." Fleur-de-lys are painted about both
within and without this arch, and on the spandrils two shields; on the
left, a bend cotised between twelve Lioncels (Bohun); and on the right,
Ermines, a bend indented, Gules.' This description was published 1786.

"By this painting there can be no doubt that the donation of the church of
Lugwardine was represented; the eleven or twelve vociferous choristers
were the eight chaplains and two deacons mentioned in the patent, who were
set apart for the peculiar service of the Lady Chapel, and provided for
from the pious bequest of Johanna de Bohoun. The two shields mentioned by
Gough are still discernible, that on the dexter side bearing the arms of
Bohun, Azure a bend, Argent between two cotises, and six lions rampant,
or.--The other, Ermines, a bend indented, (or fusily) Gules, which were the
bearings of Plugenet, derived perhaps originally from the earlier Barons
of Kilpec, and still borne by the family of Pye in Herefordshire, whose
descent is traced to the same source. In the list of obits observed in
Hereford Cathedral, Johanna is called the Lady Kilpeck, and out of
Lugwardine was paid yearly for her obit forty pence."

The effigy of Joanna de Bohun is also valuable as a specimen of costume.
Its curious decoration of human heads is also noteworthy.

Over the grave of Dean Merewether, who is interred at the north-east angle
of the chapel, is a black marble slab with a brass by Hardman bearing an
inscription, which records that to the restoration of the cathedral "he
devoted the unwearied energies of his life till its close on the 4th of
April 1850."

The next monument to notice is the effigy of Dean Berew or Beaurieu (died
1462) in the south wall of the vestibule. This is one of the best
specimens of monumental sculpture in the cathedral. The face, which is
well modelled, and the arrangement of the drapery at the