Decoration and Monuments
The south transept contains the important late Saxon stone panel of the Harrowing of Hell.
The high altar stone reredos are by John Loughborough Pearson of 1899. The three rows of choir stalls are mostly from the late 19th century with Flamboyant traceried ends. There are also 28 misericords dating from 1515–1526, installed by Robert Elyot, Abbot of St. Augustine’s, with carvings largely based on Aesop's fables. In the Berkeley chapel is a very rare candelabrum of 1450 from the Temple church in Bristol.
The monuments within the cathedral include recumbent figures of:
- Abbot Walter Newbery (d.1473)
- Abbot William Hunt (d.1481)
- Abbot John Newland (d.1515)
- Lord Berkeley (d.1326)
- Thomas Berkeley (d.1243)
The chest tomb to Bishop Bush (d.1558) includes six fluted Ionic columns with an entablature canopy. Further early monuments include:
- a perpendicular reredos to Robert Codrinton (d.1618)
- a marble wall tablet to Phillip Freke (d.1729)
- the chest tomb of Maurice Berkeley (d.1368)
- an oval slate wall tablet to Ronsland Searchfield (d.1622)
- the dresser tomb of Henry Newton (d.1599)
- the coffin lid of Abbot David (d.1234)
- a dresser tomb of Dame Joan and Sir John Young (d.1606) by Samuel Baldwin
- a dresser tomb to Sir Charles Vaughan
- memorial tablet to Richard Hakluyt (d. 1616)
More recent monuments from the early 18th century to 20th century include:
- Mrs Morgan (d.1767) by John Bacon to the design of James Stuart
- a bust by Bailey to Robert Southey (d.1843)
- an obelisk by J Paine to William Powell (d.1769)
- a monument by Bailey to William Brane Elwyn (d.1841)
- Elizabeth Charlotte Stanhope (d.1816) by Richard Westmacott
- Emma Crawfuird (d.1823) by Francis Legatt Chantrey
- a memorial plaque to Mary Carpenter (d.October 1877)
- an effigy to Dean Francis Pigou (d.1916) by Newbury Abbot Trent
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