A small
pinnacle is rather strangely inserted on each side of the arch at the
point at which it springs. Below the windows there is a rich arcade,
with buttresses between the divisions ending in pinnacles. Each division
is filled with a geometrical pattern of two panels, each panel ending in
a trefoil, with a circular trefoil in the head of each division, and a
crocketed gable, terminating in a rich finial above it. All the
mouldings of this arcade are very delicate. In the north aisle, and in
the second bay from the west, is a doorway, which opened to a Chapel of
the Holy Sepulchre, now altogether destroyed. Above this doorway is a
gable ornamented with foliage and a statue of the Virgin, which has lost
its head, with statues of angels on either side of her, also much
mutilated.
[Illustration: The Nave--South Aisle.]
#The Interior Of The West End Of The Nave# contains the famous window
with tracery of the curvilinear or flowing Decorated style, and of a
design only surpassed by the east window of Carlisle Cathedral. The
glass in this window was given by Archbishop Melton, and is almost the
finest in the cathedral.
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