The slender spire which, before the War, rose above the chevet, was known as the =Angel Spire=, on account of a bronze angel which surmounted it, and which was removed in 1860 as unsafe. This spire, the work of Colard le Moine, was built in 1485, after the fire of 1481. Its pierced base with balustrading was supported by eight leaden caryatids, some of which, in the popular costume of the Louis XI. period, became deformed in consequence of the rotting of their oaken core. The fire of September 19, 1914, caused by the German shells, entirely destroyed the spire and its caryatids. [Illustration: THE CHEVET IN 1919 _The roof with the "Angel Spire" was destroyed._] The bombardments in the spring of the following year further damaged the gallery, also causing fresh mutilations to the flying buttresses and the pinnacles of the apse. A plain stone gallery with blind arcading, which formerly ran round the chevet on a level with the springing of the roof, was replaced by Viollet-le-Duc, with pierced battlemented arcading. Part of the original gallery which surrounded the entire building, level with the roof, still exists on the northern side. On October 12, 1914, a shell destroyed about twenty five feet of the gallery round the chevet, which later was further damaged by another shell. =The Lateral Façade and South Transept= This façade and transept (_which should be seen from the courtyard of the Archbishop's Palace_) are identical, as a whole, with the northern façade and transept (_see pp. 28 and 42_). The gallery at the springing of the roof of the nave was entirely rebuilt in 1878 by Architect Millet, in a style foreign to that of the Cathedral. Among the statues of the transept buttresses that at the corner of the south-western tower, bestriding a lion, is thought by some to represent =Pepin-the-Short=, and another near him, =Charlemagne=. [Illustration: THE LATERAL FAÇADE AND SOUTHERN TRANSEPT IN 1919] The façade of the transept has no doorway. Above the lower storey, the architectural arrangement is the same as that of the northern transept. At the base of the rose-window, on each side, are two very fine statues. _On the left_, =The Christian Religion=, symbolised by a crowned woman with chalice and standard. This statue was destroyed by a German shell in 1918, after being damaged in April 1917. _On the right_, =The Synagogue=, with eyes bandaged and a crown on one side, was not seriously damaged. In consequence of the fire of 1481, the gable of South Transept was rebuilt at the beginning of the 16th century by three master-masons, one of whom, Guichart Antoine, co-operated later with the building of =Nôtre Dame de l'Epine=. (_See the Michelin Guide: The Revigny Pass._) It was restored about 1888 in the original style. The subject sculptured on the pediment represents the =Assumption of the Virgin=.