Alderson. The 44 stalls were given
by Archbishop Magee, Lady Elizabeth Villiers (7), Lady Louisa Wells, Mr
H.P. Gates, Friends of Canon Clayton, Family of Canon Pratt, Hon. Canon
Willes, Hon. Canon Twells, an ex-chorister of the cathedral, Mr James
Bristow, Mr. W.U. Heygate, Mr S.G. Stopford-Sackville, Mrs Yard, Mr J.D.
Goodman, Miss Pears, Mrs Perry Herrick, Mrs W.L. Collins and Mrs H.L.
Hansel, Mr Albert Pell, Mrs Dawson Rowley, The Mayor and Corporation, Mr
F. James, the Freemasons of England (3), Friends of Lady Isham and Miss
Perowne (2), Rev. W.R.P. Waudby, Mr G.L. Watson, Major-General Sotheby,
Mrs Hunt, Rev. A. Redifer, Mr J.G. Dearden, Mrs Percival, the Misses
Broughton, Rev. S.A.T. Yates (in memory of Mr Charles Davys Argles),
Rev. W.H. Cooper, Mr T.A. Argles, Mrs Argles.

The choir aisles are vaulted; the section of the vaulting ribs is much
heavier than in the aisles of the nave, and shews an earlier date. It
has recently been discovered that these aisles, contrary to what was
usually believed, were terminated with apses and were not square-ended.
In the south aisle is traced on the floor the position of the old
semicircular ending. The windows here were altered at the same time as
those in the nave aisles: but in the north choir aisle the windows were
taken out and arches formed leading to the passage between this aisle
and the Lady Chapel, the most western arch being Perpendicular: in the
seventeenth century, when the Lady Chapel was pulled down, these arches
were again filled up with masonry and windows. The third window in this
aisle has escaped alteration in form; but Perpendicular tracery has been
inserted.

The eastern ends of both aisles were altered in Early English times.
They have now a groined roof of one bay of that period, and very
handsome double piscinas. The aumbry on the north side in the south
choir aisle has been glazed, and is utilised as a cupboard to hold some
curiosities. In the north choir aisle there is an approach to the
morning chapel through a screen; but in the south choir aisle the
corresponding space is filled by a Norman monumental arch.

=The New Building= built beyond the apse is a very noble specimen of
late Perpendicular work. It was begun by Abbot Richard Ashton
(1438-1471), and completed by Abbot Robert Kirton (1496-1528): the works
seem to have been suspended between these periods. The roof has the
beautiful fan tracery, very similar on a smaller scale to that at Kin