The grotesque gargoyles, "these wild faces, these images of beasts and men carved upon spouts and gutters," are very vigorously executed. The windows on the south side of the clerestory are without the trefoil which ornaments the base of those on the north side. The blank window next to the tower is also wanting; in other respects the clerestory presents the same features as on the north. #South Transept.#--The chapter-house and cloisters formerly adjoined the south transept, and there was probably an entrance from the chapter-house leading down a flight of stairs into the transept. Billings says: "The modern casing at the base of the end of the transept (about 12 ft. high) shews the height of the #Cloisters#: and the doorway above, the level of the chapter-house floor. From this it would seem that the cathedral was entered at the south transept from the chapter-house by a flight of steps." The foundation of the south wall having been shaken by the removal of the remains of the conventual buildings, massive buttresses were added, and a very richly sculptured doorway inserted between them (1856). It was designed by Mr. Christian and is the principal entrance to the Cathedral. Its character is that of the late work of the choir, and is somewhat out of keeping with this distinctively Norman portion of the building. The window over the entrance is of the same date. The west side of the transept is lighted by two plain round-headed windows, not quite central. The outer moulding of the window arch of the south transept clerestory has billet ornament. Above this is a corbel table of heads and mouldings which interferes with the upper window mouldings. The transept compartments differ from those of the nave by the addition of a flat buttress between each, which consequently breaks the continuity of the corbel table. As the side of the nave was covered by the conventual buildings it was of plainer character than the north, and had no buttresses between the windows. The clerestory is exactly the same as on the north. The foundations of the old west wall are behind one of the prebendary's houses to the west of the nave. The west end, as it stands at present, was restored by Mr. Christian. A local sandstone was used in the construction of the building: grey, or white in the Norman portion, and red in the other parts. This red sandstone is not so good for exterior as for interior work, because it is liable to perish by the action of the weather. [Illustration: THE NAVE, SOUTH SIDE. _G.W. Wilson & Co., Photo._] CHAPTER III THE INTERIOR The cathedral now consists of part of the original nave (the two eastern bays only) with aisles; and north and south transepts without aisles, but with a chapel on the east side of the south transept; the central tower; and the choir with north and south aisles and ambulatory or retro-choir.