The magnificent organ case by Tapper forms the east end of
the north aisle, creating the St Michael chapel. To
the left the dramatic St, Michael window by Harry
Harvey of York, 1962, depicts the Archangel Michael and war
in heaven.
To the east of the organ case is the Corpus Christi Chapel
- the last major area of the church to be built, in the
1480s. A stone head shows a wealthy
widow of the period (identified by her costume) beside
another fashionably dressed woman - could these be
benefactors of the time?
The chapel was furnished in the 1960s by the Foster
family, designed by Lawrence Bond. The plain stone
altar incorporates the pelican feeding its young - an
ancient Christian symbol and the arms of Richard Fox, who became
chief minister to Henry VII; he re-founded Grantham's Grammar
School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Between the two chapels, a chantry chapel was built in
1496 by Thomas Hall, a wealthy merchant of Hall's Place (now
Grantham House) from which the chapel is
clearly visible. On either side of the narrow doorway
between the chapel and the church are stone heads - surely those of
Thomas Hall and his wife.
Hall's tomb was removed to allow a door to be made into what is now
the clergy vestry but his arms survive.
Reconstruction of Thomas Hall and his wife leaving
Grantham House to visit the chantry chapel which
he built.
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