=St. David’s Chapel= in the =north transept= compels us to pause again to look at the capital of the second transept pier--a handsome head with curls and a smile on his face--and a fine corbel carved into the form of a lizard eating leaves of a plant with berries. In this chapel lies an interesting effigy of =Bishop Still= (1543-1607) in a red robe lined with white fur. Next comes the =Chapel of the Holy Cross= in which is the =tomb of Bishop Cornish= (died 1513), thought also to have been used as the Easter Sepulchre, where the Host was laid during Holy Week. The north transept contains a relic of the past that delights every one who happens to be there at the striking of the hour. The famous clock that once belonged to Glastonbury Abbey is still in working order. A little figure known locally as “Jack Blandiver” kicks the quarters with his heels on two little bells and at the hour four figures on horseback above the clock rush around and charge each other. The curious clock was made by Peter Lightfoot, a monk of the abbey. It was said to have been in constant use at Glastonbury for 250 years before it was removed to Wells at the Dissolution of the monasteries. From the east aisle of the north transept a door opens to the =Staircase= that leads to the Chapter-House and also to the celebrated Chain-Gate, or carved bridge that connects the Vicars’ College with the Cathedral. Through this gallery the Vicars could pass from their own Close into the Cathedral. The common hall of their college (1340) opens from it. “There are few things in English architecture that can be compared with it for strange impressive beauty; the staircase goes upward for eighteen steps and then part of it sweeps off to the Chapter-house on the right, while the other part goes on and up till it reaches the chain-bridge; thus the steps lie, worn here and there by the tread of many feet, like fallen leaves, the last of them lost in the brighter light of the bridge. Here one is still almost within the cathedral, and yet the carts are passing underneath, and their rattle mixes with the sound of the organ within. “The main gallery of the Chain-Gate is shut off by a door, which, if it were kept open, would make the prospect even more beautiful than it is. Two corbels which support the vaulting-shafts of the lower staircase should be noticed; they both represent figures thrusting their staves into the mouth of a dragon, but that on the east (wearing a hood and a leathern girdle round his surcoat) is as vigorous in action as the figure on the west side is feeble. A small barred opening in the top of the east wall lights a curious little chamber, which is reached from the staircase that leads to the roof.”--(P. D.)