Flier's option

Usage examples of aisle.

The tower certainly stood on the site of the present tower, as Roman ashlaring has been discovered on the north-west side of the north-west tower pier, above the vault of the side aisle, and also portions of a shaft with a base, which probably belonged to the Norman clerestory.

There is also a row of niches on the towers immediately above the ornamental gable of the aisle windows, and the upper part of each tower is covered with niches.

As the side porches fronting the aisles are on the same level with the main porch, the bottom part of the front is bound together, and the divisions of nave and aisle, emphasised above by the prominent buttresses, are minimised below.

Thus, on the south the aisle buttresses are crowned by lofty pinnacles having at their bases niches, in some of which statues still remain.

At any rate, there are no pinnacles to the aisle buttresses on the north side, and, consequently, no flying buttresses.

The bays are marked by plain aisle buttresses, terminating in three-cornered caps, with a battlement of cusped stonework ornamented with finials behind them.

The aisle buttresses end some little way below the battlements of the aisle.

The exterior of the western aisle of this transept is very curious in arrangement.

Between the groups of aisle windows are blind arches narrower than the windows themselves.

The triforium passage, hidden by the roof of the aisle, runs below the screen and the windows, and between the two.

The windows of the aisle are delicately moulded with capitals to their shafts, and are ornamented with a crocketed gable, ogee-shaped and topped with a prominent finial rising just above the battlements of the aisle.

The buttresses separating it from the aisle are decorated with six storeys of niches, two to each storey, except the lowest, which contains only one.

The aisle windows have ogee gables above them with finials, and immediately above them a band of panelling running right across the exterior buttresses.

Those of the south aisle differ from those of the north, being fewer in number and wider.

The aisle fronts have upper storeys ornamented with blind arches and an upper row of small lancet windows.