y Bourne of Birmingham,
and forms a memorial to a former churchwarden, John Garrison, who died
in 1876. The tracery contains the red and white roses of the rival
houses of Lancaster and York, appropriately enough, seeing that under
the floor, in front of the altar to St. James, are interred the
remains of Lord Edmund, the Duke of Somerset, Lord Thomas Courtenay,
the Earl of Devon, Sir Richard Courtenay, Lord John Somerset, and Sir
Humphrey Hadley, who were beheaded after the battle of Tewkesbury. Sir
Thomas Tresham, who also was beheaded at the same time, was buried
before a pillar between the altars of St. James and St. Nicholas.

The whole of this part of the chapel was once the choir or chancel of
the detached Early English Lady Chapel which was erected early in the
thirteenth century. The Annals of Tewkesbury record that in 1239 the
_Church_ of Tewkesbury with a greater altar was dedicated in honour of
the glorious Virgin Mary. The word Church might mean this Early
English Lady Chapel, which with its nave and chancel would be a model
church, although somewhat small in size; but the words _majore altari_
are generally taken to mean the large slab of Purbeck marble now in
its place in the choir as an altar slab.

Lady Chapels were not invariably at the east end of the main building.
At Bristol there was and is still an elder Lady Chapel which at one
time was detached from the main building.

The floor in these chapels is that which was formerly in the choir up
to the time of the restoration of the church.

=St. Margaret's Chapel.=--This is one of the series of the fourteenth
century chapels which surrounds the ambulatory of the choir.

An old altar-cloth which was given by Anne, Countess of Coventry, in
1731 to the church was removed to this chapel after the restoration of
the building.

[Illustration: _Photo. A.H. Hughes._
THE AMBULATORY, LOOKING TOWARDS ST. MARGARET'S CHAPEL.]

A very fine screen of stonework separates this chapel from the
ambulatory, the tomb of Sir Guy de Brien (late Decorated--erected in
1390) forming part of the screen.[17] Sir Guy was the third husband of
the Lady Elizabeth Despenser who is buried in the tomb on the other
side of the ambulatory. In the panelling are the arms of Sir Guy, who
was also Lord Welwyn, and those of his wife, who was by birth a
Montacute. This knight served Edward III. as standard-bearer at Crecy
in 1346, and was a great benefactor to the Abbey. He is cre