m is marked by a band of stone ornamented with quatrefoils.
Below this is a cusped arch in each light of the triforium with a
crocketed gable ending in a finial above it. The centre lights of the
triforium in each bay originally contained figures, said to have been
the patron saints of European nations. Of these there only remains a
figure in the fourth bay from the west on the south side. Near the
triforium in the opposite bay to this there projects the head of a
dragon carved in wood, from which the covering of the font used to hang.
The clerestory windows are of uniform pattern of the style known as
geometrical Decorated. This pattern is very fine in design. It consists
of five lights, the two outer of which are grouped in a single arch,
with a quatrefoil piercing in its head. Between these two arches and on
the top of the arch of the central light is a circle fitting into the
arch of the window, and ornamented with four quatrefoils, four trefoil
piercings, and other smaller lights. There are capitals to the outside
shafts of the windows, and to the main shafts of the two inner mullions.
All these mullions are very delicately moulded. A separate account will
be given of the glass in these windows and those of the aisles, together
with the rest of the glass in the minster. There is a curious moulding
running round the arches of the windows and springing from the capitals
of the vaulting shafts, which bends towards those arches to a point a
little way above the capitals from which they spring, and then runs
parallel and close to their mouldings. The vault is of wood covered with
plaster. The ribs are elaborate in design, but not very successful. The
fact that the vaulting is not of stone deprives the mouldings and bosses
of all sharpness and delicacy. From the capital of the vaulting shafts
and for about 91/2 feet above them these ribs are of stone: the
division between wood and stone is marked by a curious and heavy
moulding. The aisles of the nave are bolder in design and altogether
more satisfactory than the nave itself. Like the nave they are unusually
wide and lofty. In the two farthest bays to the west, above which are
the western towers, the rough wooden roof, which has never been covered
with a vault, may be seen. These bays are separated from the bays next
to them by strong arches with thick shafts and mouldings, which were
built for the support of the towers. The shafts supporting this arch on
the outer side ar