William Warham (1503 - 1532) was the last of the great medieval Archbishop's, who died in 1532. William Warham's minuscule Chantry Chapel, to which he was brought to burial in 1532, had in fact been built near the Martyrdom as early as 1507 and formed the last significant structual modification to the fabric of the Cathedral before the Dissolution.

The tomb is one of the largest of the Cathedral's medieval monuments situated just feet from the spot where St. Thomas Becket was murdered on 29th December 1170. It has two tiers of flanking niches and three tracery backed ogee gables. The Archbishop's effigy originally laid to the west, allowing a narrow access into a tiny chantry chapel in the cramped space between the transept and the chapter house. In 1796-7 the effigy was moved to a central position and the chantry chapel entrance was abolished, during this restoration the tomb was much spoiled but it is still very imposing, with the fine effigy of the old Archbishop and much heraldry.

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Collinson, P., Ramsey, N. & Sparks, M., 1995, A History of Canterbury Cathedral (Monograph). SKE30201.