een--better, certainly, than might have been expected--but
spirit-less in execution. The modern bishop's throne and pulpit are not
even tolerable. They replaced a throne and pulpit erected in 1740, and,
like the stalls, destroyed in the fire.

[Illustration: Compartment of Altar Screen.]

The fine Perpendicular altar screen was also destroyed by the fire. The
present screen is a careful and very successful reproduction of it. It
has been glazed with very good effect.

The reredos, designed by Street, with reliefs by Tinworth, is made of
terra-cotta and wood, and is not successful either in colour or pattern.
The carvings represent the first hour of the Crucifixion.

The clerestory windows are Perpendicular in style, and contain five
lights. Though the design is not beautiful in itself, like that of the
great east window, it makes an admirable frame for glass. There are
certain differences in detail between the windows of the eastern bays
and those of the western. The windows of the eastern bays are almost
transitional. Certainly their Perpendicular character is not fully
developed. Thus some of their upper compartments diverge to the left and
right, whereas the windows in the choir itself are made up of parallel
and vertical divisions. In the eastern windows, also, a transom runs
through the upper lights of the windows, which is not found at the
western. The tracery of the eastern window is even more filled with
transitional characteristics. As a pattern of tracery, it is wanting in
coherence and subordination, and these faults are painfully evident
outside. But it is so vast, and filled with such magnificent glass, that
the tracery seen from the inside seems hardly more important than the
leads of the glass, and the whole is to be judged simply as a great wall
of glass supported where necessary by stonework made as unobtrusive as
possible.

There are differences also in the eastern and western windows of the
aisles, especially in the interweaving and subordination of the lines of
the mouldings, but these differences are not so obvious as in the
clerestory.

The change in the placing of the clerestory window and of the triforium
passage has been pointed out.

Among other and minor differences the following may be remarked:--In the
eastern bays the capitals of shafts in the triforium run round the
shafts of the main arch of the window.

In the western bays the arches between the mullions of the triforium are
ci