The angle of the southtransept and the chevet was particularly hurt on the date last named.
The vault of the south transept fell through, the ancient glass of the apse triforium and of the upper nave windows was broken, as well as the modern glass of the apse chapels windows, and in other parts.
The flying buttress at the angle of the choir and north transept was entirely destroyed.
The window glass in the aisle of the north transept was broken by a bomb falling in the adjoining street.
The windows of the south aisle of the nave to the transept were broken, many being emptied of their ancient glass.
Palais Archiépiscopal Immediately adjoins the south transeptof the cathedral.
There is Norman arcading outside the north transept as well as just above the floor in the north aisle.
The south transept contains a monument to Guillaume Arvilarensis, an abbot of Bec who died in 1418.
The west front belongs entirely to the Renaissance period and the north transept is in the flamboyant style of the fifteenth century so much in evidence in Normandy and so infrequent in England.
The tower is in the angle between the north transept and the nave, and a large sacristy with an eastern apse is built against the south transept.
By a descent of some twenty steps from the south transept the old cathedral is reached.
The north transept contains the chapel of the patron saint, full of gorgeous ornaments of all kinds, but not very ancient.
To the north transept very nearly the same description would apply, save that the doorway is much finer, and entirely of marble.
The church consists of a nave and aisles of four bays, a transept of great length, a central lantern, and a short choir with circular eastern apse; small apses are also built in the east walls of the transepts.
In the north transept is some elaborate Gothic panelling--very German in character--which looks as if it had come from the back of the old choir stalls.
Examples of this may be seen in the south transept of SS.
Sidenote: Funeral Customs] The interment took place in the abbey church, in the transept where rested so many of the St. Aliquis stock.
Connected with one transept of the church is the cloister.
In a corner of a transept he found a stone craftsman completing a small image of St. Elizabeth to adorn some niche.
Another picture of Rubens's in the north transept is "The Elevation of the Cross," which is full of life and interesting attitudes, and the horses are spirited.
When Becket was murdered in 1170, he was dragged from his chamber along the cloister by the monks, and he was entering the choir by a door now called the martyr's transept when he was stopped by the knights and fought and fell.
The transept was formerly known as the Killigarth Chapel; and Killigarth, close by, was formerly the Beville manor, noted in old days for its prodigal hospitality.
A portion of the walls, in their rude simplicity, appears to be Saxon, but many orders are represented here, from the late Norman chancel-arch to the Decorated south transept and Perpendicular screen.
Chancel and south transept are Early English, and the south doorway very excellent Norman.
Privacy was thus secured for the monks, whilst by this arrangement the people had full access to all parts of the sacred building except the choir and the transept nearest to the monastery.
In the south wall of the south transept is a tomb with a niche beside it that is supposed to be that of Owen Gwynedd, who died in 1169, but from the style it might be later by a century.
The south transept contains rich Norman arcades, and the arch into this transeptis of the same period and of equal richness.
Over the transept of the Church of England sits Queen Anne, holding the Sword of Justice in the left hand, and the Sword of the Spirit in the right.
Part of the transept is used as a consistory court.
A Norman arch, probably the relic of an older building, fills the opening of a transept on the south side.
In the south transept is an effigy of an unknown crusader and another of a knight in the north aisle.
The south transept is below the level of the nave; here are two mutilated pieces of sculpture, representing Our Lord with a book and a seated bishop with his crozier.
The northtransept was for many years used as the parish church of St. Peter.
We cannot be too grateful for his contribution to church architecture, though only the outer walls of the nave, the aisles, a part of the transept walls, some shafts, and the crypt remain as evidences of his Norman adaptability.
His heart was brought to Hereford and buried in the north transeptof the Cathedral, and he was canonised in 1310.
There are two transept aisles, and only secondary transepts to the choir exist.
The south transept has a distinctive feature in its magnificent rose window, whilst the north transept is adorned with a series of beautiful worked lancet windows, known as the Five Sisters.
Margherita he painted a work which is now placed in the transept of their church.
In the transept on the sacristy side of the lower church of S.
Maria Novello, over the transept he did a St Jerome dressed as a cardinal.
To this later period belong the south transept and the east window of the chancel with rectilinear tracery; it is probable that the pulpit and stalls also belong to this second work, c.
They do not shew the slightest sign of the revolution of design which had commenced in Gloucester transept c.
In the north transeptone window and two narrow doorways still betray their Norman origin.
The Chapter House# lies at the south end of the transeptbeyond the Chapel of the Holy Ghost.
The south transept contains a very interesting collection of monuments.
The screen dividing it from the transept is Oldham's work.
The open galleries in each transept are connected by a passage with the clerestory.
The Courtenay tomb in the south transept is entirely a restoration.
As we walked down the north transept the old lady asked me if it was true that "Old Parr" was buried in the Abbey, and I took her to read the inscription on the stone in Poet's Corner.
The north transeptis nearly perfect: the south retains only its western wall, in which are two decorated windows.
A large chapel in the left transept is of the Salviati family, dedicated to St. Anthony, and decorated with several statues of saints, and with some old frescos.
On a platform at the entrance of the left-hand transept was the throne on which he would afterwards take his place.
Next, Pierre turned into the transept on the left, where stand the confessionals.
The beautiful pointed arches supporting the central tower are almost intact and the cloisters and walls of the south transept still stand.
Once inside we are overwhelmed by a sense of vastness--the great church is nearly five hundred feet in length, while the transept is a third as wide.
In 1379 Lanfranc's nave and transept were destroyed.
The north transept is the Montagu Chapel; here in the window is some old glass in which we may see the Annunciation.
It stood till 1379 with a low and short Norman nave and transept to the west, and a great Transitional choir and transept to the east.
It was originally a cruciform building, with central tower, but the south transept has been destroyed as has the chapel east of the north transept where now the vestry stands.
St Martin's Church, whose spire rises so charmingly out of the orchards white with spring, has a fine western doorway and tower of Norman work, and a chancel and south transept lighted by Early English lancets.
In the south transept is a fine thirteenth century effigy of a lady, carved in purbeck.
Thence they proceeded to rebuild the eastern end of the church, erecting a transept beyond the old choir, finishing their new sanctuary in 1227.
Something of the great masterpiece that then perished is left to us especially without, and it is perhaps the most charming work remaining in the city, the tower of St Anselm, for instance, and much of the transept beside it.
It consists of a cruciform building of which the north transept and the north wall of the nave were rebuilt in the thirteenth century.
Therefore, whereas the North Transept has aisles on its east side and on its west, the South Transept is aisled only on the east side.
The northern altar of the northern transepthas a detached pillar piscina.
It is probably the muniment room, while I assign to the sacristan another small apartment at right angles, since it communicated by a passage over the vaulting of the south transept chapels with the niche before alluded to.
The choir was without aisles, but each transept had one on the east side, which seem to have been used as chapels.
The western lancet of the south transeptis filled in with tracery of the fifteenth century date into the older opening.
The bases of the four altars of the transept chapels are very apparent, and they have been covered with arcading.
High up in the southern wall is to be seen a small loop-hole, communicating with a passage which leads over the vaulting of the southern transept aisle to the abbatial building adjoining the church.
Also those of the south transept and of the north aisle of the nave.
The present rough roof of the dormitory is modern, but the water tables in the south transept gable show that it is of the same pitch as the original one.
The corbel table around the presbytery and transept walls is bold and peculiar, and is of two patterns.
It is a wonderful place this church, the mighty chancel and transept arches seem to hold the silence as a bowl holds water; one could not “strive or cry” aloud here.
The south transept is said to have been the oldest part of the Cathedral, and here was the sacristy (dated the end of the twelfth century).
Eight bays were in the nave, and each transept projected to the depth of a single bay.
The north transept contained the fine monument of the Canon Jehan Wyts, who died in 1523.
