nquefoiled (they are trefoiled in the eastern bays), and the bases are
much shorter.

All the mullions of the clerestory windows have capitals. The two
central mullions, as in the nave, are thicker than the rest. They rise
also to the head of the arch. The two outer lights are coupled by an
arch above them. The upper lights are broken up into a number of
divisions, vertical and parallel in the choir proper, slightly varied in
direction in the retro-choir. The mouldings are as elaborate and as
carefully subordinated as in the earlier work of the nave.

Below the transom dividing triforium from clerestory is a row of
panelling divided by the mullions of the triforium, which, as in the
nave, are merely a continuation of the mullions of the clerestory. The
arches of the triforium are not ornamented with a gable, as in the nave,
but with a moulding decorated with crockets and ending in a rich finial.
The capitals of the main vaulting shafts are very curious. They consist
of an ordinary row of carved foliage with three pendants ending in small
carved figures with cinquefoiled arches between them. The outer
mouldings of the main arches are cut short by the small outer vaulting
shafts. A little way below them are small heads, as in the nave. The
capitals of the main arches are like those of the nave, but their
foliage is more disconnected. On the north side of the choir are figures
on the capitals. Mr Browne, the enthusiastic and laborious historian of
the minster, has supposed these figures to represent scenes in the
rebellion in which Scrope took part. If the ordinary date given to the
choir be accepted, it was built before that rebellion. But Mr Browne has
endeavoured to prove that the choir was built later than is usually
supposed. It is impossible in this book to do more than mention the
controversy started by him, and to say that, in the opinion of Professor
Willis and others, he has not made out his case. In the four eastern
bays brackets and canopies for statues are attached to the vaulting
shafts below the capitals of the piers. Those east of the altar were
badly altered and restored after the fire of 1829. It should be
mentioned two eastern bays are narrower than the rest for the better
support of the eastern wall of glass, and the western bays for that of
the tower. In the spandrels of the main arches are coats of arms, mainly
of benefactors. The following is a list of these, taken from Murray's
handbook to the mins