ultimately restored to its original use in the south end of the western
transept. It was placed where it is in 1920. Another font had been
erected in 1615, as appears by an entry in the cathedral register of
that date, when the son of one of the prebendaries was baptized "in the
new font in the bodye of the Cathedral Church here."

=The West Transept= extends beyond the aisles. The huge pointed arches
covered with Norman mouldings are very remarkable. The arcading which
goes round the lower part of the aisle walls was continued round the
east sides and the ends of this transept, but it has all been hacked
away, and the walls now are flat. The position of the arcade is very
plainly to be seen. The south end in 1921 was again restored to its
former use as a chapel by the Dean of Winchester, Dr. Hutton. The north
end of this transept is used as a vestry. It is screened off, with the
adjacent bays of the north aisle, by some of the woodwork that has been
removed from Dean Monk's choir. From these specimens the general
character of the whole can be easily gathered.

The west wall has no trace of Norman work. The arcade by the ground
consists of pointed arches, though the great doorway has a round arch;
all have Early English mouldings. The great doors themselves are of the
same date, as shown by the carved capital at the top. The west window,
with its Perpendicular tracery, is set inside an Early English arch,
which has two lofty lancets by the side; and in looking at it from the
east it can hardly be detected that this arch is not the very framework
of the window. The very lofty lancets on the east of the projecting
parts of this transept, as well as the decoration of the arches in the
triforium above the aisles, should be noticed.

The number of =Altars= in the church was considerable. They were of
course all served by members of the foundation. but they had not
separate endowments like chantries in a parish church. Nor does any one
appear to have been associated with any company or guild. There were,
besides the High Altar and that in the Lady Chapel, three in the new
building, one in the little chapel between the choir and Lady Chapel,
one in each choir aisle, two (SS. John and James) in the north transept,
four (SS. Oswald, Benedict, and Kyneburga, and the Holy Trinity) in the
south transept, two (the Ostrie Chapel and that of the Holy Spirit) in
the building west of the south transept, one in the rood-loft, most
like