as this middle storey
consists of a single bold arch in each bay, it has not the merit of
horizontal continuity, found, for example, in the triforium at Beverley,
and does not lead the eye, once directed to it, from bay to bay.

Like the nave, therefore, though for very different reasons, the
transept should be examined bay by bay if the beauties of plan and of
detail are to be appreciated, and these beauties, at least those of
detail, are abundant.

There are some differences of detail between the east and west sides of
the south transept, and also between the south and north transepts. The
east and west sides of the north transept are practically identical,
except for the fact that a Decorated pillar without Purbeck marble
shafts has replaced an original Early English pillar on the west side of
the north transept. This was probably made necessary by the height of
the tower.

The differences between the east and west sides of the south transept
are as follow:--

The windows in the southern bay of the west aisle are blank. They are
pierced on the eastern aisle.

The vaulting ribs of the western aisle are plain. They are elaborately
moulded in the eastern aisle.

The arcade in the eastern aisle is shorter than in the western, and does
not reach to the ground.

There is a niche against the north-west pier of the tower, but none on
the north-east.

There is a leaf moulding above the clerestory on the eastern side. The
same moulding on the west is plain.

The eastern moulding of the main arches on the eastern side is
dog-tooth. It is plain on the west. The other mouldings of the main
arches are also differently arranged.

The spandrels of the triforium are decorated with circles of carved
foliage, five to each bay, on the west side. These are absent on the
east.

The north transept differs from the south in the following respects:--

The arches of the arcade at the north end of the north transept are
trefoiled. They are plain at the south end of the south.

The main piers of the north transept have a ridge running down their
alternate stone shafts. This ridge is wanting in the south.

Their capitals are richer, and, curiously enough, apparently later in
detail.

In the clerestory of the north transept there are large dog-tooth
mouldings between the Purbeck marble shafts wanting in the south
transept. There is also more dog-tooth in the arch mouldings of the
clerestory of the north transept than of the s