The organ screen is composed of clunch stone, and is decorated with spiral turrets, having a number of gaudily painted shields in the spandrils, which, together with the rainbow hues of the organ pipes, give it an appearance rather offensive to modern taste, although strictly in accordance with the rest of the work, which is in the style of the 1st and 3rd Edward. On the right of the entrance to the choir is a brass plate with the following inscription:-- THIS ORGAN SCREEN WITH THE CHOIR AND ALTAR SCREEN, WAS ERECTED A.D. MDCCCXXX. BY SUBSCRIPTION FROM THE MEMBERS OF THIS CATHEDRAL CHURCH, THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD OF PETERBOROUGH, AND OTHER ADMIRERS OF ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE, UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE VERY REV. JAMES HENRY MONK, D.D., DEAN. The New Pulpit, Erected to the memory of the Rev. John James, D.D., for 40 years Canon of the Cathedral, has a most massive appearance. The principal material used in its construction is Dumfries stone, with pillars of Devonshire and Greek marble. The body rests on a centre marble base, with corner pillars of Greek marble. At each corner of the pulpit stand figures of the four evangelists. The three panels are richly carved, and in the centres are cut the figure of a lamb, a Norman cross, and the letters I.H.S. Greek marble has been employed as pillars for the stair rails, along which and around the upper part of the pulpit is Devonshire marble. The following inscription inlaid with gold is cut in the Greek marble bordering:--"In Memoriam. Johannes James, S.T.P., hujus Ecclesiae Cathedralis XL.; Anno Canonici P.C. Filii Superstites A.D. MDCCCLXXIII, O.B. XV Dec. MDCCCLXVIII." The arms of the See and the Dean and Chapter are cut in the stone body. The architect was Mr. Barry, of London, and the work was executed by Messrs. Field, Poole, and Sons, Westminster. Monuments. There are very few ancient monuments remaining in this cathedral, the greater portion having been destroyed by Cromwell's soldiers. A brazen eagle, or lectern, in the centre aisle of the choir, from which the daily lessons are read; an ancient stone at the east end of the building, till lately supposed to be commemorative of the murder of eighty-four monks by the Danes, in 870;[31] and a picture of old Scarlet, who died in 1594, aged 98, are the principal objects of interest.