To the right of the main door is the tomb of Cardinal Adam of Easton, Norfolk. He was titular cardinal of St. Cecilia's from 1389 until his death. As a cardinal he was imprisoned and almost executed by Pope Urban VI, but was spared through the personal intervention of King Richard II of England. As well as his own coat-of-arms, the monument displays that of the House of Plantagenet (which was the English royal family at the time), and this might have been in gratitude. The monument was made by Paolo Romano, and was only finished several decades after the cardinal died. The monument was dismantled during the 1600 restoration, and reassembled at the present location. It is in the form of a Gothic tomb-chest, with a recumbent effigy on top. Note that the chest has spiral columns at its corners; formerly there was a canopy supported by similar columns, when the monument was at its original location near the apse.
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