helmet, and the lady wears the "pedimental" headdress
of Tudor fashion. The arcading is purely Renaissance in detail though
the general treatment is mediaeval. The figures are in dignified
repose, wholly free from the later affectations of the Elizabethan
school yet evidently individual portraits. The second tomb dates from
1640. The top is far too heavy for the little Ionic pilasters below.

The third, traditionally called Wade's tomb, probably belongs to John
Wayd, a Mercer, who lived in Coventry in 1557, but no inscription
remains.

There are seven shields of arms on the side, nearly all defaced, a
motto "Ryen saunce travayle," and nine images in low relief which
present quaint studies of early sixteenth-century costume.

The matrices of brasses are still visible in several parts of the
church. Sir James Harrington, writing in the reign of James I, tells a
curious story of their loss:

The pavement of Coventry church is almost all tombstones, and
some very ancient, but there came in a zealous fellow with a
counterfeit commission, that for avoiding superstition, hath not
left one pennyworth nor penny breadth of brass upon all the
tombs, of all the inscriptions, which had been many and costly.

The last monument that need be mentioned is upon the wall over "Wade's
tomb." Twenty-six verses of eulogy follow these opening lines:

An Elegicall epitaph, made upon the death of that mirror of women
Ann Newdigate; Lady Skeffington, wife of that true moaneing
turtle Sir Richard Skeffington, Kt., and consecrated to her
eternal memorie by the unfeigned lover of her vertues, Willm.
Bulstrode, Knight. (She died in 1637, aged 29).

The present organ was built by Henry Willis and erected in 1887. It is
a four-manual and pedal instrument and has fifty-three stops.

The old organ on which Handel played more than once, stood on a raised
platform at the west end. It was the work of Thomas Swarbrick of
Warwick, a German by birth, in 1733. He also built those of Trinity
Church, St. Mary, Warwick, Lichfield, St. Saviour Southwark,
Stratford-on-Avon, and Amsterdam.

The best of the ancient glass now remaining has been collected into two
windows, one on either side of the apse. Much was brought from the
clearstory where six windows on the south and all save one on the north
side still have panels made up of a mosaic of fragments with portions
here and there of which the subject is intelligible. From wh