ABOVE: The monument in the north east corner of the chancel consists of an alter tomb recessed in thickness of the wall and thereon a recumbent alabaster effigy of John Combe, dressed in a long gown. The work was that of Gerard Janssen who also was responsible for Shakespeare's monument on the north wall of the chancel. Dugdale in his Diary records under the year 1653 that “Shakespeare’s and John Combe’s monuments at Statford uponAvon made by Gerard Johnson”. In the hollow above the effigy is an inscription as follows.

HERE LYETH INTERRED YE BODY  OF  JOHN  COMBE ESQR WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 10TH DAY OF JULY A^o DNI 1614 BEQUETHED BY HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT TO PIUS AND CHARITABLE USESTHESE SUMES INOLVING ANVALLY TO BE PAID FOR EVER VIZ.XXS FOR TWO SERMONSTO BE PREACHED IN THIS CHURCH. SIX POVNDES XIII^s & 4 PENCE TO BUY TEN GOVNDES FOR TEN POOR PEOPLE WITHIN YE BORROUGH OF STATFORD & ONE HUNDRED POVNDES TO BE LENT UNTO 15 POORE TRADESMEN OF YE SAME BORROUGH FROM 3 YEARES TO 3 YEARES  CHANGING YE PTIES EVERY THIRD YEARE AT YE RATE OF FIFTIE SHILLINGES P. ANUM YE  WCH INCREASE HE APPOINTED TO BE DISTIBUTED TOWARD THE RELIEFE OF THE ALMES PEOPLE THEIRE.            MORE HE GAVE TO THE POORE O STATFORDE TWENTY .  .   (This part of

the inscription was never finished).

   John Combe was a friend of Shakespeare and left him a legacy of £6 a year.