This was made necessary by the position of an ancient building known as Jesus Hall which adjoined the transept and thus blocked the way from "the Butchery" in this direction.

His successors completed the western transept and began the west end of the nave.

The church is cruciform, two hundred and sixty-three feet long and one hundred and thirty-one wide; it consists of a great sanctuary with aisles ending in chapels, square without, apsidal within, wide transepts each having an eastern apsidal chapel, nave with aisles, and over the crossing a low tower which was once higher, having now a seventeenth century polygonal belfry.

Forcing their way through this crowd, Leonard and his companions crossed the transept, and proceeded towards the door of the spiral staircase leading to the central tower.

Thence they proceeded to rebuild the eastern end of the church, erecting a transept beyond the old choir, finishing their new sanctuary in 1227.

Neither could he perceive any light, except that afforded by the moonbeams, which flooded the transept with radiance.

Alterations at various dates have given the building thirteenth-century transepts and a roof and aisles dating from two hundred years later.

They introduced the transepts, or cross-enclosures, making them to project north and south of the nave, in the space separated from the apsis; and the apsis was expanded into the choir, filled with priests and choristers.

But long before he reached the southern transept, the apprentice had disappeared, nor could he learn what had become of him.

The interior, originally E.E., was never handsome, and has been ruined artistically by the erection of some huge aisles, with galleries, which have absorbed the transepts.

In the interior there are several features of interest, among them being the screen separating the transept from the chancel.