The monument, which is Perpendicular and Early English, has been much battered, but it is exceedingly graceful and of an unusual type.
Leland, who visited the Abbey in 1539 or 1540, wrote as follows:—"Serlo, Abbot of Gloucester, lyeth under a fayre marble tombe, on the south side of the Presbytery."
Glass in the Choir.—Mention has been made above of the east window, and it remains to notice the others.
In the clerestory on the north side the windows have been restored by Clayton & Bell. They are best seen from the triforium, but are given here as being part of the choir. Following the example of the lights in the east window, these clerestory windows have alternately red and blue backgrounds. Portions of old glass remain in the heads of the windows.
Beginning with the windows west to east the first contains:
(1) St. Zacharias. (2) St. Elizabeth. (3) St. John Baptist. (4) St. Gabriel.
The second contains:
(1) St. Anna. (2) St. Mary. (3) St. Joseph. (4) St. Gabriel.
The third contains:
(1) St. Peter. (2) St. John. (3) St. James (Major). (This light is out of its place.) (4) St. Andrew.