In the second bay (counting from the west) of the _south_ aisle is the _font_, of Norman design, and curious. The basin is circular, and has figures of the Apostles beneath arches, in the spandrels of which is a leaf-ornament. A lion projects from each corner of the base, an unusual and perhaps unique example. In the fourth bay is the very fine alabaster effigy of Sir RICHARD PEMBRIDGE, _temp._ Richard II. Sir Richard, an ancestor of the Chandos family, was one of the first knights of the Garter, and was present at Poictiers. The armour is an excellent example. Gold remains on the points of the cap to which the camail is attached, and on the jewelled sword-belt. The head rests on a tilting-helmet, with a sheaf of feathers coloured green. Between the feathers and the helmet is a coronet of open roses. The garter is on the left leg, and the feet rest on a greyhound. This monument was originally in the church of the Black Friars, and was brought thence to the cathedral after the Dissolution. The right leg, which had been destroyed, has been restored at the cost of the Rev. Lord Saye and Sele, Canon Residentiary. In the wall of this aisle, in the _third_ bay from the east, is the headless figure of an ecclesiastic, under a Decorated arch, foliated. In the _second_ bay is an effigy of a priest of the early Decorated period, much mutilated, under a foliated arch, at the crown of which is a bearded head wearing a cap. In the _third_ bay is a door opening to the cloisters, with a square heading which rises above the sill of the window over it. A row of heads in the hollow moulding of the door,--a fac-simile of a former composition, which had become entirely decayed,--and the modern iron-work, by Potter, with which the door itself is covered, deserve notice. A narrow and lofty Norman arch opens from this aisle into the transept. VII. The _north_ aisle is Decorated, of the same character as the south. In the _third_ bay from the tower is the north _porch_, (§ IV.); and in the bay above it is the monument of Bishop BOOTH, (died 1535,) the constructor of the porch itself. The effigy lies under a foliated arch with canopy. The Bishop, mitred and fully vested, holds the crozier (the head of which has been broken) wrapped with the infula, or fillet. Much colour remains on this monument, which is protected by its original iron-work, banded with shields and heraldic ornaments. In this aisle, a stained-glass window by WARRENTON, with subjects from the life of St. John the Baptist, has been inserted as a memorial of Canon CLUTTON and his wife.