dressings to the walls, and the modern parapet above the whole.

[Illustration: GENERAL VIEW, FROM THE WEST.]

GENERAL VIEW, FROM THE WEST.

_Photochrom Co., Ld., Photo._

The style of the arcade and window, and also the blank window or double
arch, with two smaller arches within the clerestory wall, claims especial
attention, as well as the ribbed roof rising above the Norman triforium.

We now come to the Early English work of the *Lady Chapel*, the east end
of which is especially noticeable, with its bold angular buttresses rising
from immense bases. The numerous and large base mouldings running round
the wall of this building, its tall lancet-shaped windows, arcades, and
ovolar and lozenge-shaped panels, are so many interesting peculiarities of
design.

The Audley Chapel projects on the south side. The angular, embattled
parapet at the end is a modern addition.

The south side of the cathedral is not easily examined by the public,
being shut within the walls of a garden between the Bishop's and the
Vicars' Cloisters.

The *Bishop's Cloisters* consist of two walks only, or covered corridors,
though that on the west, which was pulled down in the reign of Edward VI.
to make room for a pile of brick building appropriated to the Grammar
School, and in its turn demolished in 1836, is now in course of
restoration.

It does not appear that the cloisters ever had a walk on the north side
against the cathedral.

These cloisters are of Perpendicular date, and between a continued series
of buttresses are windows of large dimensions, with mullions and tracery.

The vaulting of the roof is adorned with numerous ribbed mouldings, at the
intersections of which are shields charged with sculptured figures,
foliage, arms, etc. These ribs spring from slender pillars between the
windows and corbels heads on the other side: over the exterior of the
windows are carved grotesque heads, of which we give some illustrations.
The south walk of the cloisters is the more richly groined. At the
south-east corner is a square turreted tower containing a small chamber,
which has been carefully and completely restored. It has always been
called the "Ladye Arbour," although no one has been able to discover the
origin of this name or the use to which the chamber was put; many
antiquarians suggest a possible reference to the Virgin.

[Illustration: EXTERIOR OF THE LADY CHAPEL. DRAWN BY A. HUGH FISH