York Cathedral interior north transept west wall

Photographer

De Smet, Arthur

Date

• ca. 1972-ca. 2018

Summary

• The clerestory has an arcade of five lancet arches in each bay separated by a passageway from the three lancet windows. The arches have multiple rows of dogtooth. The supporting columns have shafts and abaci of Purbeck marble with limestone capitals. In between each shaft is a line of large dogtooth. There are friezes of dogtooth above and below the arcade. The triforium has an outer round arch enclosing two lancet arches with each of the lancets enclosing another pair of lancet arches. In the outer arch spandrel is an encircled sunken cinquefoil and in the middle arch spandrels are encircled sunken quatrefoils. The abaci and some of the shafts are Purbeck marble with limestone molded capitals. There is dogtooth ornamentation around the circles and in the hood molding and the round arch