The interior consists of a broad, ornamentally roofed nave (resting upon twelve high narrow pillars of stone), and two aisles.

It will not be easy to forget the impression made that dark December morning when I entered the little doorway of this cathedral and first walked down its long, gray, lofty nave to this flight of steps.

Wheels are made with much variety in their constructive details: sometimes they are made with cast iron naves, with the spokes and rim of wrought iron; but in the best modern wheels the nave is formed of the ends of the spokes welded together at the centre.

Three evenings a week the little nave was in festal dress, and filled with light, and perfumes and flowers.

"And should time be short for detailed inspection, it is this general effect of immense naves, of a forest of columns and of jeweled windows that we carry away, feeling too small amidst such greatness of form and incomparable loveliness of lights for the mere expression of admiration."

In the vast nave there were relatively few peoplethat is to say, a few hundred, who had sufficient room to move easily to and fro under the eyes of officials.

But, if we adopt the latter alternative we must accept too the improbability that this expense should have been incurred when the inadequacy of the old narrow nave of 15½ feet compared with a chancel of 33 feet must have been so obvious.

Nor can we do justice to the glorious nave, with its roof of oak; nor the aisles and the chancel; nor the beautiful Leggare chapel, with its oak screen, carved in its upper part in fifteenth-century tracery, its faded frescoes and ancient altar tomb.

Except that of Chester (the grim and simple nave of which stands yet unrivaled in my memory), and one or two small ones in North Wales, hardly worthy of the name of cathedrals, it was the first that I had seen.

St. Mary's, the town church, has a Norman chancel and Perpendicular nave and tower.

You find, usually, only whitewashed naves, walls destitute of painting or bas-relief, and rows of oaken benches well-polished and shining.

It has a lofty arched nave and a fine dome.

The vaults are under the western nave.

The fans of groining sprang from the short columns, just as do the feathered boughs of the far more beautiful Maximiliana palm, and just of the same size and shape; and met overhead, as I have seen them meet, in aisles longer by far than our cathedral nave.

Above, again, rose the third storey, two great arches that lighted the large rose of the central nave.

From the lofty atrium raised on broad marble steps, with painted ceiling and sculptured wallsat one end a bubbling fountain falling into a marble basin, at the other an arched gate-way leading into grass-grown cloistersthe vast nave is visible from end to end.

Here is a church with a Transitional chancel; it is said that the contemporary nave was of wood.

The walls of the diminutive nave, as one may see from the illustration given here, consist of the trunks of large oak trees split down the centre and roughly sharpened at each end.

This great Norman church of St Nicholas with its partly fourteenth century nave, its clerestory, its fine chancel with sedilia and Easter sepulchre, and noble pinnacled tower is perhaps the greatest building in the Marsh.