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[Illustration: THE CRYPT UNDER THE FRATRY. _G.W. Wilson & Co. Ltd.,
Photo._]

Between the compartments devoted to the lives and deeds of St. Anthony
and St. Cuthbert are pictures of the twelve Apostles with the words
which, according to tradition, each one contributed to the Creed.

APOSTLES AND CREED

ST. PETER I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of
heaven and earth

ST. ANDREW And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord

ST. JAMES Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of
the Virgin Mary

ST. JOHN He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified,
dead, and buried

ST. THOMAS He descended into Hell: rose again the third day
from the dead

ST. JAMES And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father
Almighty

ST. PHILIP From whence He shall come to judge the quick and
the dead.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW I believe in the Holy Ghost

ST. MATTHEW The Communion of Saints

ST. SIMON The Forgiveness of Sins

ST. THADDEUS The Resurrection of the Body

ST. MATTHIAS And the Life Everlasting.

At the time of the Reformation these paintings were all whitewashed.
Dean Percy (1778) removed the whitewash from some of them, and they are
now all restored to their original condition as far as possible.

#Retro-choir.#--The extreme eastern bay of each aisle, and the passage
behind the altar, form the retro-choir, which is Late Decorated.

Its acutely-pointed windows are practically of identical pattern, the
mullions and side-mouldings having richly floriated capitals.

The last arch of the main arcade is supported by a bracket of foliage. A
fragment of rib still remaining was for the cross-groining of the aisle;
but as this would have interfered with the arch mouldings, the rib was
terminated higher up the wall upon a bracket in the form of a crouching
figure.

The wall-arcade has three divisions, the capitals of the columns are
foliated, and the point where the hood mouldings meet is ornamented with
the carving of a human head.

The low doorway forms the entrance to a staircase leading to the upper
part of the cathedral, and the belfry.

Beneath the great east window there is a plain tablet in memory of
Archdeacon Paley, and an