lar compartments, and at the angles are flowers and other
ornaments, curiously carved, and originally were coloured. In the
spandrils of the lower and triforium arches (with the exception of the
first bay on the south side, which contains the arms of the see, those
of Bishop Hotham, and another shield), are sunk trefoils, some of
which are painted dark blue relieved with small stars in gold, having
an elegant appearance. The range of pierced parapet at the bases of
the triforium and clerestory has been entirely renewed; and on the
south side, the triforium roof (which on both sides is of bare
rafters,) has been recently painted and ornamented in a style similar
to those of the Transept. The windows in the clerestory are large,
filling the whole opening, having in each four lights with rich
tracery, and the same kind of trellis-work we noticed in the large
windows in the Octagon; these windows, on both sides have been
recently filled with stained glass, executed by Mr. Wailes, the
expense defrayed out of the balance of the accumulated fund for the
east window; the subjects are illustrative of two verses of the "Te
Deum," with figures of angels and the arms of the donor, &c., in the
tracery:

NORTH SIDE--"_The noble army of Martyrs_"--represented in
the western window by figures of St. George, St. Agnes, St.
Catharine, and St. Alban; middle window--St. Lawrence, St.
Cecilia, St. Justin, and St. Prisca; eastern window--St.
Ignatius, St. Polycarp, St. Lucian, and St. Stephen.

SOUTH SIDE--"_The Holy Church throughout all the World_,"
the Eastern Church being represented in the western window
by figures of St. Chrysostom, St. Basil, St. Athanasius, and
St. Gregory Nazienzen; the Western Church in the middle
window, by figures of St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, St.
Augustine, and St. Gregory the great; the British Church in
the eastern window, by figures of St. Columba, St. David,
the Venerable Bede, and St. Augustine of Canterbury.

The absence of a bishop's throne is peculiar to this Cathedral; the
bishop occupies the return stall on the south side, and the dean that
on the north; those seats being generally appropriated to the dean and
sub dean. When the abbacy was converted into a bishopric (A.D. 1109)
the bishop took the seat previously held by the abbot, the prior
retaining his own; and, on the re-foundation in 1541, the dean took
the seat previously used by