The Beauchamp Chapel at St Mary's Warwick

The fifteenth-century chantry chapel of Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, was directed by its founder to be "faire and goodly".. Built by his executors under the terms of his will, the chapel's rich materials, quality of workmanship and attention to detail make it one of the most splendid late-medieval funerary chapels in western Europe. This richly illustrated guide celebrates the Beauchamp Chapel not only as a work of art, but also a political statement of the power and influence of the Beauchamp dynasty and of Richard himself.