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Austin monument
Lockyer monument
Blisse monument
Harvard chapel
Stilted arch
The candelabrum
Cardinal Beaufort's arms
Bingham monument
Wigan monument

Choir and Retro-Choir

The North Transept houses a monument which commemorates the physician, Lionel Lockyer. In his day he was famous for his pills, and died (rather surprisingly, in view of the claims made for the pills) in 1672. The inscription on the monument reads:

Here Lockyer: lies interr'd enough: his name
Speakes one hath few competitors in fame:
A name soe Great, soe Generall't may scorne
Inscriptions wh^ch doe vulgar tombs adorne.
A diminution 'tis to write in verse
His eulogies wh^ch most mens mouths rehearse.
His virtues & his PILLS are soe well known..
That envy can't confine them vnder stone.
But they'll surviue his dust and not expire
Till all things else at th'universall fire.
This verse is lost, his PILL Embalmes him safe
To future times without an Epitaph

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