ABSTRACT
This paper discusses the history and architecture of the chantry chapel at Guy’s Cliffe outside Warwick. Following a short introduction, the first section presents a brief account of the site and its development to the present day. In the second, the medieval buildings at Guy’s Cliffe, and the gigantic mid-14th century sculpture of Guy that survives in the chapel there, are discussed and contextualised. The ways in which this literary fantasy found a home in the living world are explored, as well as the manner in which Guy was promoted by a noble family and assumed as an ancestor.
