CITY OF DURHAM 



probably in the 14th century, their sills being 

 splayed down to the abaci of the shafts of the 

 wall-arcades, and the lower portion of the wall- 

 arcade in the middle bay blocked. The wall- 

 arcades have recently been restored and the sills 

 of the windows raised, the two northern bays 

 of the aisle now forming a memorial chapel 

 to the officers and men of the Durham Light 

 Infantry who fell in the Great War. The chapel 

 is enclosed at its north and south ends by oak 

 screens, that on the north being based upon 

 the design of the screen which enclosed the 

 chapel before 1840.^2 



The window in the south wall of the aisle 

 is a 14th-century insertion, and as in the case 

 of the other 14th-century windows, the sill 

 is splayed down to the abaci of the arcade shafts. 

 The floor is raised like that of the north transept 

 aisle. In the northernmost bay was the altar 

 of Our Lady ' alias Howghel's altar,' and in the 

 other two bays were the altars of Our Lady 

 of Bolton*' and of St. Faith and St. Thomas the 

 Apostle. 



THE NAVE consists of three double bays 

 from the crossing westward, followed by two 

 single bays. The double bays are divided from 

 each other by the great triple shafts which rise 

 from the floor on the face of the major piers and 

 receive the great transverses, and each is covered 

 by a double quadripartite vault without any 

 intermediate transverse. The two western 

 bays are covered each by a single quadripartite 

 vault and are separated by a simOar transverse 

 springing on each side from the three middle 

 shafts on the inner faces of great piers similar 

 to those of the crossing ; these were required 

 for the support of the angles of the western 

 towers, the inner walls of which form the sides 

 of, and are open to, the westernmost bay of the 

 nave, while their ground stages constitute the 

 corresponding bays of the aisles. The vault of 

 the westernmost nave bay has a large circular 

 eye-hole. The arcades of the three double bays 

 follow the general design of those of the quire 

 and transepts, with semicircular arches on 

 alternate major and minor piers. The single 

 western bays, which are each about half the 

 length of the double bays, have single arches 

 springing from shafted responds against the 



'^ Some fragments of Cosin's work, which had been 

 preserved in the Cathedral Library, have been incor- 

 porated in this work. The regimental badge appears 

 in both screens. 



*' The altar of the Memorial Chapel occupies the 

 position of the Altar of Our Lady of Bolton, two 

 pillars of which remain restored to their original use. 

 The designation of this and the adjoining altar arose 

 from their being endowed respectively with lands at 

 Bolton in the parish of Edlingham (Northumberland), 

 and at Houghall, near Durham. Greenwell, Durh. 

 Cath. 62. 



main piers. The general design of the triforium 

 stage follows that of the quire,^ and the 

 clearstory that of the north transept, with 

 certain modifications named below. 



As already pointed out, the first double bay 

 of the arcade, the first two bays of each aisle, 

 and the first bay of the triforium stage date 

 from the end of the first stage of the work, 

 which coincided approximately with the early 

 years of the 12th century. In this earlier 

 east portion of the nave the general scheme 

 of the first work, with but slight modifications 

 of detail, was followed. The first two major 

 piers belong to it and are similar to those of the 

 transepts, and the arches are simply moulded. 

 The supports on the back of these piers and 

 on the aisle walls opposite are triple shafts, 

 as in the quire and transepts ; but in the case 

 of the minor cylindrical piers the attached shafts 

 at the back are omitted and the corresponding 

 piers, or responds, on the aisle walls are half 

 cylinders. In omitting the shafts, however, 

 the builders increased the diameter of the 

 cylinder, thus giving it a projection into the 

 aisle sufficient to receive the springing of the 

 vaulting ribs on that side. This change was 

 followed Ln the later work westward. The first 

 triforium opening resembles in general design 

 that in the quire next the east crossing piers, 

 where there are three jamb shafts on each side, 

 the inner receiving the sub-arch, the middle one 

 the moulded containing arch, and the outer 

 being continued up as a vaulting shaft. In 

 the nave, however, where there are no vaulting 

 shafts, the outer shaft is finished with a capital 

 at the same level as the others, and receives 

 an unmoulded outer order to the containing 

 arch. The wall thickness, which in the quire 

 is reduced by recessing, is here retained, the 

 wall surface being the same as that of the arcade 

 wall below ; this treatment of the w^all is con- 

 tinued westward throughout the nave tri- 

 forium. The triple jamb shafts are repeated 

 on each side of the pier over the minor pier 

 of the great arcade, with a narrow strip of wall 

 surface between the outer shafts, at which point, 

 on this story, the work of the first building 

 period ends. Thus far, the work, like that of the 

 triforium stage on the west side of the tran- 

 septs, shows no preparation for a high vault, 

 and as the triforium design of the first bay 

 was continued in an enriched form westward in 

 the second building period, it has sometimes 

 been assumed that when the great arcade and 

 the triforium of the rest of the nave were built, 



^ More strictly it continues the motive of the 

 triforium openings in the bays of the transepts next 

 the crossing, where the earlier design is followed, 

 except that the outer order of the arch is not moulded 

 and has no shaft to receive it. 



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