Though it underwent great alteration in the Perpendicular period much of the Norman work remains. The east wall is in the best preservation, and is certainly entirely Norman with the exception of the groining. It is covered with five series of arcades, which may be divided into three stages. In the middle stage is a notably good triforium passage of very short Norman arches. All the other ranges of arcades, except those at the level of the clerestory, are blocked. On this side the transept is lighted from the clerestory by two Norman windows. In both east and west walls there is a very fine Norman moulded double arch. In the west wall Perpendicular windows have cut into the Norman work, and a large Perpendicular window nearly fills the south wall with panelling round it of the same period. *Monuments in the South Transept.*—There is an interesting altar-tomb of Sir Alexander Denton, 1576, of Hillesden, Co. Bucks, Esq., and his lady and a child in swaddling clothes, toward the south-east angle of the transept. The effigies are in alabaster, and retain considerable traces of colour. They are in full proportion, and the knight wears a double chain and holds a cross in his hands. The Dentons were ancestors of the Coke family, now Earls of Leicester. The swaddled body of the child lies to the left of its mother, its head resting on a little double pillow by her knee, and a part of the red cloth on which she lies wraps over the lower part of the babe. To the right of the knight, balancing the child in the composition, lie his two gauntlets or mail gloves, which have been much scratched with names. The head of the knight rests upon his helmet. Round the verge of the tomb is this inscription: "Here lieth Alexander Denton, of Hillesden, in the County of Buckingham, and Anne his wife, Dowghter and Heyr of Richard Willyson of Suggerwesh in the Countie of Hereford; which Anne deceased the 29th of October, A.D. 1566 the 18th yere of her Age, the 23rd of his Age." "But," says Browne Willis, "this was but a cænotaph, for Alexander Denton, the husband, who lived some years after, and marry’d another lady, was bury’d with her at Hillesden, Co. Bucks; where he died January the 18th, 1576." Under the south window is an effigy of Bishop Trevenant (1389-1404), the builder of the Perpendicular alterations in this transept. The effigy is unfortunately headless and has lost its hands. The feet are resting on a lion. There is a brass to T. Smith, organist of the Cathedral (1877). The remains of an ancient fireplace may be noticed on the west side of the south transept. They consist of a rectangular recess with chimney vault behind. This was doubtless cut away when the Perpendicular window was placed above on this side. From this transept a beautiful side view is obtained of the lantern arches. [Illustration: EAST WALL OF THE SOUTH TRANSEPT.] EAST WALL OF THE SOUTH TRANSEPT.