page_title: Worcester Cathedral
section_title: Burials and memorials
hierarchical_section_title: Worcester Cathedral / Burials and memorials
caption_attribution_description: Worcester Cathedral, England - Altar
context_page_description: Worcester Cathedral, is an Anglican cathedral in Worcester, England, situated on a bank overlooking the River Severn. It is the seat of the Bishop of Worcester. Its official name is the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin, of Worcester. The present cathedral church was built between 1084 and 1504, and represents every style of English architecture from Norman to Perpendicular Gothic. It is famous for its Norman crypt and unique chapter house, its unusual Transitional Gothic bays, its fine woodwork and its "exquisite" central tower, which is of particularly fine proportions.
  The cathedral's west facade appeared, with a portrait of Sir Edward Elgar, on the reverse of £20 note issued by the Bank of England between 1999 and 2007, remaining in circulation as legal tender until 30 June 2010.
context_section_description: The Cathedral contains the tomb of King John in its chancel. Before his death in Newark in 1216, John had requested to be buried at Worcester. He is buried between the shrines of St Wulstan and St Oswald (now destroyed).
  The cathedral has a memorial, Prince Arthur's Chantry, to the young prince Arthur Tudor, who is buried here.  Arthur's younger brother and next in line for the throne was Henry VIII. Worcester Cathedral suffered badly from Iconoclasm but was spared total destruction by Henry VIII during the English Reformation because of his brother's chantry in the cathedral.
  An epitaph in Latin to Henry Bright, headmaster of the King's School, Worcester, can be found near the north porch. Other notable burials include:
  Godfrey Giffard (c. 1235 – 1302), Chancellor of the Exchequer of England, Lord Chancellor of England, and Bishop of Worcester
  Maud (de Giffard) Devereux (on 3 September 1297), William Devereux’s widow, in a place near the burial site of her brother, Bishop Godfrey de Giffard
  Ivor Atkins (1869–1953), choirmaster and organist at Worcester Cathedral from 1897 to 1950 
  Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 
  Alfred Barry, one time Bishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia 
  Ernest Bird (1877–1945), scholar of King's School, Worcester 
  Arthur W. Davies (1878–1966), one time Principal of St. John's College, Agra 
  Richard Edes (d. 1604), a chaplain to Elizabeth I and James I
  John Gauden (1605–1662), Bishop of Worcester, possible author of the Eikon Basilike
  Philip Goodrich (1929–2001), Bishop of Worcester from 1982 to 1996 
  William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton (1616-1651), Scottish Royalist commander
  Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet
  William Henry Reed (1876–1942), violinist, friend and biographer of Edward Elgar 
  Robin Woods (1914–1997), Dean of Windsor, Bishop of Worcester from 1971 to 1982 
  Francis Brett Young (1884–1954), Worcestershire author
caption: The interior, looking east.
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