Stanbury Chapel

On your way from the North Transept to the Lady Chapel, you pass the little chantry chapel of John Stanbury, bishop from 1453 to his death in 1474, whose magnificent marble tomb is opposite. Stanbury was a Carmelite friar, a doctor of theology, and chaplain and confessor to King Henry VI; the chapel is in the same perpendicular style as the chapels of the king's famous foundations at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.

Here masses would be said for the bishop's soul after his death. It is a lovely place, with delicate carvings on the walls, and twentieth-century stained glass showing scenes from Stanbury's life.

The ceiling is low enough to enable you to see the detail of the fan vaulting. This style of roof became popular in the fifteenth century.