s of stone. The windows
are filled with tracery of an unusual transitional character, and
altogether more beautiful and interesting than that of the clerestory.
They are divided into three lights, each terminating in a very obtuse
arch. Above these arches are three others, also obtuse and hardly
pointed. Short mullions run from the points of the lower arches to the
points of the upper. Above the upper arches are three irregular-shaped
openings, arranged pyramidally, the two lower being quatrefoiled, the
upper sexfoiled. The whole is a curious mixture of vertical and flowing
lines. They represent a design, as it were, of which the tracery is
arrested half-way in its process of stiffening from the curved lines of
the Decorated style to the straight of the Perpendicular. Here, as in
the clerestory, the mouldings are delicately varied. The central shafts
alone of the mullions have capitals. On each side of every window are
three shafts, all with capitals.

[Illustration: The Choir in 1810.]

Below the windows runs an arcade of very simple panelling, four
divisions to each window, and two trefoiled arches in each division.
There is also panelling of the same character on each side of the
vaulting shafts between the windows. The windows of the eastern bays are
more sharply pointed than the others. The vaulting shafts of the aisles
have capitals of carved foliage and wings of leafage on a level with the
top of the arcade below the windows. The windows next to the east end
have only two lights.

The eastern transepts stand between the four western and the four
eastern bays. They mark the position of the eastern transepts and towers
in Roger's Norman choir, and are of rather unusual design. They are of
only one bay in width, and do not extend beyond the aisle walls. They
therefore represent a bay of the choir, of which the clerestory and
triforium are removed, and the aisle roof is raised to the height of the
roof of the choir itself. Both outside and inside their effect is
magnificent. Their north and south walls are filled with enormous
windows, containing splendid glass. Of these windows, that on the north
contains scenes from the life of St. William, and is known as the St.
William window; that on the south, scenes from the life of St. Cuthbert,
and is known as the St. Cuthbert window. Both have had their mullions
recently restored.

These windows are divided into five lights, and are crossed by three
transoms. Below th