flush with
the west front; in both respects resembling those of Wells and other
cathedrals. Besides, they are constantly mentioned, and at various
dates, as Mr. Longman duly acknowledges. The southern tower was the
original LOLLARDS' TOWER from which the Lambeth tower has
borrowed its name, and was utilised for a prison by the Bishops of
London for ecclesiastical offences. It was both bell and clock tower,
and abutted on to both the cathedral proper and St. Gregory's. So late
as 1573, Peter Burchet of the Middle Temple, shortly afterwards
executed for murdering his gaoler in the tower, was imprisoned here
for heresy, and would then have been sentenced to death but for
recanting.

The north-west tower was likewise used at times as a prison, and was
connected with the bishop's palace. In the days of Bonner, an upper
floor almost as high as the parapet of the nave contained a room eight
feet by thirteen; and the two towers were connected by a passage in the
thickness of the west wall. Hollar's views show us that Inigo Jones
overlaid these towers with a new coating, and finished them off with
turrets. The original towers were probably crowned with spires of wood
and lead, and both projected some thirty feet from the aisles. The high
roof of the nave[40] of the middle of the thirteenth century had an
angle of about forty-five, and replaced an older one during the
rebuilding of the choir. The CENTRAL TOWER had double flying-buttresses
with pinnacles springing from the clerestory; and, assuming that the
west towers had also spires, the grouping must have been nearly
perfect.

Yet another puzzle is the architecture of the TRANSEPTS. The
north and south windows at the ends are sometimes represented as of a
late date, but not by Hollar. They were probably Norman in their three
stages. In his report[41] Wren says, "The North and South Wings have
Aisles only on the West side, the others being originally shut up for
the 'Consistory.'" What he meant was that the two east aisles were
shut off from the rest of the transepts. Their architecture (of the
same dimensions as their western counterparts) was Geometrical as
regards windows, buttresses, and pinnacles. The rest of the transepts
resembled the nave; and this part of the south front was very much
broken. The cloister and chapter house occupied almost the whole of
the west side of the south transept, and four bays of the nave; St.
Gregory's Church occupied four more bays at the