The =Dean’s Door= on this side of the nave is Norman. The three shafts on either side, with their cushion capitals, carry round arches with characteristic and different mouldings. There are ten windows, very broad, of five lights each, under depressed arches. They were inserted in the Thirteenth Century. The parapet at the top is Early English. The north transept has seven stages of windows (Perpendicular), and blind arcades and a battlemented gable, flanked by octagonal turrets. Here we gain a view of the lantern tower, rebuilt in 1884. Then we come to the choir, and lastly to the =New Building=. The Decorated windows of the apse are particularly fine. “The east end of Peterborough is rather peculiar. There remains the old Norman apse with Decorated windows inserted, and this is surrounded by what is called the New Building, though it is 400 years old, formed by extending the walls of the choir and building a square end to the Cathedral. This was erected by Abbot Kirton. His work possesses the best features of Perpendicular style. It is richly ornamented and when we examine his work we cannot say that the glories of Gothic achievement had quite departed. We see the twelve buttresses, each terminated with a seated figure, usually said to be one of the Apostles.”--(P. H. D.) Turning round the east end we come to the ruins of the Infirmary, erected about 1260. Some fine arcading is still to be seen. Afterwards we come to the =Slype=, once vaulted, but now open to the sky, which formerly connected the Refectory with the Chapter-House, on the east side of the =Cloister=. Only the south and west walls of the =Cloister Court= remain. This is always called =Laurel Court=, though the origin is unknown. The south side of the Cathedral is more beautiful than the north, from which it differs by having two doorways into the nave from the cloisters, and a very fine south-west spire, early Fourteenth Century work. A beautiful view of this spire and the bell-tower is obtained from =Laurel Court=. ELY DEDICATION: ST. ETHELREDA. CHURCH OF A BENEDICTINE MONASTERY. SPECIAL FEATURES: THE OCTAGON; GALILEE PORCH; LADY-CHAPEL; BISHOP ALCOCK’S CHAPEL; BISHOP WEST’S CHAPEL; MONK’S DOOR. Ely is perhaps the most singular and beautiful of English cathedrals, when seen from a distance; for the massive building, with its turrets, buttresses, and pinnacles, rises with splendid majesty from the green meads that make a perfect foreground. “The first glimpse of Ely overwhelms us, not only by its stateliness and variety of its outline, but by its utter strangeness, its unlikeness to anything else. Ely, with its vast single western tower, with its central octagon unlike anything else in the whole world, has an outline altogether peculiar to itself.”--(E. A. F.)