The west wall has no trace of Norman work.  The arcade by the ground consists of pointed arches, though the great doorway has a round arch; all have Early English mouldings.  The great doors themselves are of the same date, as shown by the carved capital at the top.  The west window, with its Perpendicular tracery, is set inside an Early English arch, which has two lofty lancets by the side; and in looking at it from the east it can hardly be detected that this arch is not the very framework of the window.  The very lofty lancets on the east of the projecting parts of this transept, as well as the decoration of the arches in the triforium above the aisles, should be noticed.

The number of =Altars= in the church was considerable.  They were of course all served by members of the foundation. but they had not separate endowments like chantries in a parish church.  Nor does any one appear to have been associated with any company or guild.  There were, besides the High Altar and that in the Lady Chapel, three in the new building, one in the little chapel between the choir and Lady Chapel, one in each choir aisle, two (SS.  John and James) in the north transept, four (SS.  Oswald, Benedict, and Kyneburga, and the Holy Trinity) in the south transept, two (the Ostrie Chapel and that of the Holy Spirit) in the building west of the south transept, one in the rood-loft, most likely four against pillars in the nave (a bracket on a pillar on the north side marks the position of one), and apparently one in the south part of the west transept.  If this enumeration is correct there were not less than twenty-two.  There seems also to have been an altar in the hearse over Queen Katherine’s tomb; and, though no mention of them occurs, we should suppose there must have been one on each side of the entrance beneath the rood-loft.

Two altar-stones only have been found.  One is marked on a plan made about 180 years ago as being laid down in the choir a little to the east of where the eagle lectern now stands.  It was subsequently taken up, sawn into three pieces, and placed beneath the arch leading from the western transept to the south aisle.  Some twenty-five years ago it was again removed from the pavement and is preserved elsewhere.  The five crosses are large and deeply cut, and are in the form of cross-crosslets.  The other has been taken up from the pavement in the eastern chapel.  It is a very curious example, and one that might well escape notice.  The stone is of the usual size, and uninscribed.  It is much worn by constant treadings, and the five crosses are nearly obliterated, though quite distinctly to be seen.  But instead of there being, as usual, one in each corner of the stone, or nearly so, all the five are towards the centre of the stone, within a space of about two square feet.  There is also an extra cross on the front edge.  This stone is now used for the altar in S. Oswald’s Chapel, in the south transept, refitted in 1900.