The most eye-catching parts of the Edward the Confessor chapel are the finely carved pink-toned alabaster of the altar, screen and nearby tomb of the Viscountess of Maidstone. She donated all the chapel’s fittings and funded the restoration of the south aisle leading to the chapel. The carved Biblical scenes are from the Book of Revelation. Her grandfather was John Banks Jenkinson, Bishop of St Davids from 1825 to 1840.
The Chapel of St Edward the Confessor was re-roofed in the early part of the twentieth century. It had fallen into disrepair after Parliamentary soldiers were ordered to strip the lead from the Cathedral roof in 1648.
