and Lichfield, thirteen of Lichfield and Coventry, four of Worcester,
and two Bishops-Suffragan of Coventry.

The south aisle is 6 feet narrower than the north at the west end, but
its want of parallelism adds 7 feet to its width at its far eastern
end.

The south-west doorway has its original doors, though these have been
subjected to restoration. The first chapel on the south side belonged
to the Dyers' Company. When the principal trade of Coventry was the
manufacture of woollen and worsted stuffs and the production of a
special blue thread, so excellent that it gave rise to a proverbial
expression, "he is true Coventry Blue", the Dyers were an important
Company.[6] A chantry known as Tale's was probably attached to this
chapel, as the salary of the priest, _£_5 6 _s_. 8 _d_., was paid by
the Dyers' Company of London. An upper chamber for the priest existed
as late as 1607; the floor corbels still remain. A large marble
monument (removed hither from the chancel) has medallion portraits of
two ladies--Dame Mary Bridgeman and Mrs. Eliza Samwell. The former
with her husband, Sir Orlando (Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under
Charles II), both died in 1701. The latter, dying in 1724, "ordered
this monument to be erected as a remembrance of their great and loving
friendship."

The Chapel is now the Baptistery. A large eighteenth-century marble
font was removed to the Lady Chapel and a new Gothic one put in its
place, so that there are now three in the church.

The south porch (1300) is the earliest part of the existing church.
The inner doors appear to be of the early sixteenth century, the