THE VESTIBULE TO THE CHAPTER HOUSE. 
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The subjects from the base are as follows : In the first light St. 
Mary Magdalene and St. Thomas ; in the second light Christ after 
his resurrection, and Christ convincing the doubting Thomas ; in 
the third light a female blindfolded and with broken bannered staff 
and with crown falling off, indicates the fall of the Jewish Church ; 
above is a female crowned and holding a three-spired edifice in 
one hand and in the other a bannered cross signifying the Christian 
Church established. 
St. Thomas. 
St. Thomas Crowned female with Church, 
convinced. (Christian Church established). 
Mary Magdalene. Christ after 
His Resurrection. 
Crown falling off female. 
(Fall of Jewish Church). 
The diaper of the spaces between the subjects is formed by the 
foliage of the Oak, Ivy, and Maple. The borders depict Ivy. 
The three lower panels, with the exception of the borders, are 
insertions, probably replacing shields. 
III. T hird Window. Four Lights. 
Bishops, Saints , and Martyrs. 
The tracery has no coloured glass. 
The canopies have cinquefoiled arches springing from corbels 
attached to buttresses. The lower part of each buttress represents 
masonry with arcading above consisting of two divisions with 
quatrefoil in the head, above which the buttress terminates in a 
crocketted pinnacle. The niche gables end in fleurs-de-lys, and 
the gable is filled in with a combined trefoil and triangle. 
There are two rows of figures, the upper row i, a bishop with 
part of name “ obei't ” ; 2, an archbishop holding a crozier with 
pendant, his name has gone ; 3, an archbishop with part of name 
“ S- lEtimo ” (Edmond, Archbishop of Canterbury. He died in 
1242) ; 4, a bishop whose name is wanting. 
Bishop. Archbishop. St. Edmund, Bishop. 
archbishop. 
St. Stephen. Deacon. St. Robert. St. Wincelaus. 
In the lower row 1, St. Stephen with stones in one hand and a 
closed book in the other (S. St.”) ; 2, a deacon whose name 
has gone : the background consists of trefoils on a red ground ; 
3, a saint holding a book in his left hand, with part of his name 
