ornamented with blind arches and an upper row of small lancet windows.
These upper storeys do not correspond with the roof of the aisle behind
them. The aisle windows are lancet, two to each aisle. The external
buttresses are large, ornamented with gables and blind arches, and the
other buttresses are of the same character.

[Illustration: South Transept--Porch.]

On the whole, the front of the north transept, though very rich in
ornament, is distinctly inferior to the front of the south. The rose
window is too large for its lofty position, and its elaborate tracery
and rich mouldings make it seem heavy. The lancet windows below it,
being too long and badly spaced, have rather a bald look, increased by
the richness of the rose window above them, and the porch is altogether
too insignificant and plain for its prominent position. But, as has been
stated, the front has suffered much from restoration and later
additions, and must not be too severely judged. When it was restored by
Mr Street, pinnacles, which were late additions, were removed, and the
present ones, more in keeping with the rest of the front, were put in
their place.

#The South Side Of The Nave# resembles the north in most respects, but
the buttresses and pinnacles of the aisles are altogether different. The
buttresses rise some way above the battlements of the aisles. They are
plain to the level of these battlements, and above them are ornamented
with niches containing figures, with blind arches above the niches. They
are cut short by three gables, on the top of which are set lofty
pinnacles. The niches vary in detail, some of them having more elaborate
canopies than others. On these buttresses and on the wall of the nave
are the marks of flying buttresses which have been removed, as has been
stated in the account of the north side of the nave.

Three gargoyles spring from each buttress at the level of the battlement
of the aisle. This side of the nave is only less beautiful than the
other. The pinnacles, if they add to the richness of its decoration,
break the simplicity of outline so admirable in the northern exterior of
the nave. The stonework of the pinnacles and buttresses is much decayed,
and constantly requires renewal.

#The Central Tower# rises a single storey above the ridge of the roof
and is open inside to the top. But for small gables on the buttresses,
it is quite plain up to the level of the roof ridge. Above this it
contains two long