Tombs.
1) Founder's tomb at the east end of St Margaret's chapel (C40) with canopy (fragments in the museum) (WARD). It contained a "powerful man" who may have been William FitzRalph or Geoffrey de Salicosa Mara (C40).
At the Suppression, the tomb had a 'grate of yren' (WARD).
2) A tomb in the nave is said to be that of Abbot Walter de Senteney (HOPE). It had an incised cross and short pastoral staff on the dexter side (WARD).
3) A large slab of Purbeck marble, fragments of which were found in various places, 2 being on the floor of St Werburgh's chapel, so it possibly covered the large sepulchral vault beneath the centre arch and commemorated Abbot John de Horsley, ruled 1301-28, died 1333. The chapel was built or rebuilt around that time. It has a brass effigy and a marginal inscription in detached Lombardic letters, brass between 2 narrow fillets. Only 2 or 3 of the brass letters survived to Hope's time, but he read HIC: I... DE: HORSE... PICIETV..., (HOPE). The pieces are now in the museum.
4) A double slab of the 13th or 14th century in the chapter house; each half has cross, 1 has a pair of shears, another a sword and shield and horse-shoe? Incised lines contained red pigment (WARD). Bones of a skeleton were found under the dexter half only. The slab was not moved – a hole was dug underneath (H80); it covers a married couple (H79).
5) Double coped monument of Purbeck marble in the middle of the room (H79), each half with a cross fleury in Ward's time (WARD). When excavated: found on the south side a decayed wooden coffin and decayed skeleton, and on the north side a lidless stone coffin with a skeleton. The stone one was 2” thick, internally 6' 1½ " long, 10½ " deep, 20½” wide at the head,. 10½” at the foot.. Identified as Abbots William de Horsley, died 1353 and Roger de Kirketon, died 1356. It was replaced carefully H80).
6) Incised slab alongside the effigy (WARD); the tomb of a knight, it has a skeleton without a coffin.
7) North of the double abbots' slab was another interment in a sound oak coffin (H80). In 2010, marks of this were seen: the shape of a coffin in damper gravel than that surrounding it.
8) Part of another incised slab built into the North stone platform (WARD, H79). It is ‘very fine’ (H79).