Norman character, much enriched. The clerestory above is entirely Perpendicular. A pierced parapet runs along at the base, and slender Perpendicular vaulting-shafts pass through both the triforium and clerestory stages. The west wall has been overlaid more completely with a Perpendicular screen-work, pierced for window openings in all three stages. There is also a Perpendicular clerestory window above the arch of the nave-aisle. Remains of two arches of the Norman triforium have been found on this side of the transept. They are plainer than those opposite, but may possibly be of the same date. The vaulting of the transept is a plain lierne. Under the eastern arch a low Norman door, newly opened, leads into the crypt (§ xxn.)

On the south side of this transept is a monument designed by ADAMS, and executed by NOLLEKENS, for Bishop JOHNSON, (1759-1774). The bust is fine. There are also a memorial of Bishop HURD, (1781— 1808), and a tablet for Dean Hook, (died 1828), brother of the more celebrated Theodore Hook.

In the east wall of the north transept a Norman arch has been discovered during the late restorations, occupying the same position as that in the transept opposite, and of the same date. It now remains open, to the thickness of the outer wall. The vaulting-shafts here are Early English, banded, with capitals of Early English foliage. On the north side was a modern Perpendicular window, which has been removed, and replaced by a new window of early Decorated character, the glass in which, with full-length figures of the

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Apostles, is by LAVERS and BARRAUD. The east and west walls have been overlaid with Perpendicular work in the same manner as the opposite transept. The triforium panelling on the east side, which has been built up, has been re-opened and restored. The screen-work on the west wall is only pierced for a window in the clerestory stage.

In this transept are monuments for-(north wall), Bishop STILLINGFLEET, (1689-1699,) "jam tibi, quicumque hæc leges, nisi et Europe et literati orbis hospes es, ipse per se notus;" and (east wall), Bishop HOUGH, (1717-1743,) by ROUBILIAC. The Bishop is rising from the sepulchre. Religion lifts a fringed cloth from the bas-relief. The inscription gives due praise to the "unbounded charity, the courteous affability, and the engaging condescension" of the Bishop, the "ever-memorable President of Magdalen College, Oxford, who providentially for this nation opposed the rage of Popish superstition and tyranny." The small bas-relief below the effigy represents the President's expulsion from Magdalen.

VII. A flight of steps, rendered necessary by the elevation of the crypt, which extends eastward from this point, ascends to the choir-screen, between the two eastern piers of the tower. (For this, and for the refitting and decoration of the choir, since 1865, see APPENDIX, note 5.)

Passing beyond the screen, we enter the most interesting portion of the cathedral. The whole building, east of the tower, is far richer and better in detail

than any part of the nave. The convent, in all pro bability, was receiving larger sums from the pilgrims. to the shrine of St. Wulfstan during the thirteenth century, when the choir and the parts connected with it were built, than during the fourteenth, when the nave was erected. By that time the neighbouring churches of Hereford and Gloucester had each their great shrine, which must have attracted much of the wealth that would otherwise have found its way into the treasury of Worcester.

Bishop William of Blois is recorded as having "begun the new work of the front" in the year 1224. The plan of the new building involved a great extension of the cathedral eastward. Beyond the site of the crypt, the work was carried "to a length equal to double that of the Norman presbytery, (exclusive of the probable Lady-chapel of the latter,) and so adjusted as to place the central tower of the church exactly midway between the east and west extremities of the entire building"." Eastern transepts were also adopted. Professor Willis has been the first to shew the order in which, in ali probability, this new work was erected. This is indicated by a difference in the moulding of the vaultingribs. "The transverse vault-ribs of the side aisles and centre of the work between the great tower and the small transepts (namely, the present choir) have a hollow mold in their soffits; and this is also the case

m That of St. Thomas de Cantilupe at Hereford-translated 1287; and of King Edward II. at Gloucester, circa 1330. n Willis, p. 100.