Ripon Cathedral interior north wall of north transept

Photographer

De Smet, Arthur

Date

• ca. 1972-ca. 2018

Summary

• The north wall is the same as the south wall in the south transept and is a combination of Norman and Transitional with rounded openings and windows at the clerestory level but rounded opening with Early English tracery at the lower level. The clerestory has narrow pointed arches on both sides of the windows in front of a wall passage. The lower openings are deeply splayed without moldings. The triforium has typical Early English pointed arches with pierced quatrefoils between each pair of arches. The arches have a roll molding, groove and chambered outer order. However these end on square capitals with layered square sides. The shafts in the triforium are detached. The three clustered vaulting shafts begin on molded corbels but end at the level of the capitals in the clerestory, with a single shaft extending up to the string course above the clerestory windows.