York Cathedral interior south transept

Photographer

De Smet, Arthur

Date

• ca. 1972-ca. 2018

Summary

• The east wall 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 detached Purbeck shaft is an attached small limestone shaft. The hood moldings have a line of dogtooth and end in carved heads. Above is a frieze of stiff-leaf foliage clusters. 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 round arch.