Handbook to the Cathedral Church of StPeter, York; being notes on the architecture, stained glass, shields and monuments . isted of three wide bays, and a narrow one to the aisles of the Norman nave and Transitional choir as will be seen by the triforium. In the rebuilding of the nave and choir their aisles were widened, so that the piers of the narrow transept bay stood in the centre of the passage from the aisles to the transepts ; this position was inconvenient, so after the rebuilding of the choir, and previous to the reconstruction of the large tower, the piers were removed and Perpendicu
Handbook to the Cathedral Church of StPeter, York; being notes on the architecture, stained glass, shields and monuments . isted of three wide bays, and a narrow one to the aisles of the Norman nave and Transitional choir as will be seen by the triforium. In the rebuilding of the nave and choir their aisles were widened, so that the piers of the narrow transept bay stood in the centre of the passage from the aisles to the transepts ; this position was inconvenient, so after the rebuilding of the choir, and previous to the reconstruction of the large tower, the piers were removed and Perpendicular ones erected at a distance to suit the width of the new nave and choir aisles. The Early English arches however were simply ^.S?^f shifted, the narrow one exchanging places withoiiijteii, that of the second bay from the tower andpresent very remarkable examples of the bold engineeringwork of the middle ages.* York Cathedral by Prof. Willis, 1847, with historical plans, York Minster ALTARSsupposed^ Sitesuv C RYPT /. S. Mary ^^ ^! Z. SSNtckolcLS ^l artlCrcforyi240. 4 SS. Agalha,, Lucy, , CcUfierone^ /^<^S \. IH CHURCH 6. ^t ^24J e. S. Andre^yv /244 9. ^-€^ /2eJ (/ ^vcrlcj-fZ45/4 /260\ Plan 1250J INCH = iOO F THE SOUTH TKANSEPT. 37 Archesfilled in. After the lantern was rebuilt, it sank bodily about ^^Tower. eight inches, dragging with it the adjoining masonry and arches of the transepts; this necessitated the walling up of the narrow arches and the rebuilding of the central pier {Perpendicular) in the west aisle of the north transept. The transepts have three distinct horizontal divisions, namely, pier arches, triforium, and clerestory, and are 92 feet high to the centre of roof, 93 feet 6 inches in width, and 223 feet 6 inches in length. The north transept is 3 feet 3 inches longer than the south, and its west aisle is wider than the corresponding one in the south transept. THE SOUTH TKANSEPT. (1230-1241.) The Minster is generall
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