“This church differs from most of our cathedral and abbey churches in having no triforium.[8] And the clerestory is not lofty, so that the church is rather low for its width, though the height of the arches of the main arcade prevents this being felt. The roofs of the aisles are all modern, but that of the nave, though extensively repaired, has much of the original work in it, and, with the exception of a few bosses, the choir roof is old. All the roofs are of timber; in the nave the intersections of the main beams are covered by beautiful bosses carved out of the solid wood. On either side, at the points from which the main cross beams spring, is a series of angelic figures splendidly carved in wood: those on the south side playing stringed instruments, those on the north side wind instruments. “The pillars of the main arcade of the nave are modern work built in imitation of the original ones. They are light and graceful, and, like many other pillars of fifteenth century date, are formed of shafts of which only half have separate capitals, the other mouldings running round the arch. The spaces between the arches are elaborately carved with heraldic shields.”--(T. P.) In the nave we find the one interesting window in the Cathedral (the most eastern one in the Ducie Chapel), a memorial to =General Gordon= killed at Khartoum in 1888. It consists of five lights. Gordon is in the centre, his hand on the head of a native boy. Natives and angels occupy the other lights. Towards the east end of the nave stands the [Illustration: MANCHESTER: SOUTH] [Illustration: MANCHESTER: NAVE, EAST] modern pulpit and then an ancient rood-screen with three wide openings and double doors. Passing through the screen, we enter the =Choir=, sometimes called the =Radcliffe Choir=, because members of this family were buried here. The =Choir-stalls= date from the early Sixteenth Century and resemble those in Ripon Cathedral and Beverley Minster. “There are twelve stalls on either side, and three on each side of the entrance through the rood-screen facing east. The stalls are furnished with _misereres_, which, in common with many others both in England and on the Continent, represent all manner of quaint subjects, monsters, animals, hunting scenes, etc. “The carved elbows of the stalls and the end of the book desks are also worthy of careful examination, especially the Eagle and Child and general carving of the Dean’s Stall, which is a marvel of beautiful workmanship, and said by high authorities to be unequalled.