Ripon: Nave, east
Ripon: Choir, east
sides embellished with panelling. At the north wall was probably situated the Markenfield Chantry; for the aisle is still called by this name. Two family tombs remain.
The South Transept is slightly narrower than the north. Parts of it were altered in the Perpendicular period. In the aisle we find the Mallory Chapel, where members of the Studley family are buried. The northern bay is filled by a stone stairway, at the top of which are two doors. One opens into a chamber containing the bellows of the organ and the other into the Lady-Loft, or Library. This stairway was erected by Sir Gilbert Scott to replace an older one.
The elegant Rood Screen is of the Fifteenth Century. It contains a central doorway surmounted by a crocketed ogee hood, beneath which is a mutilated carving of The Trinity. Four large niches stand on either side of the door and a row of twenty-four smaller ones runs above these. Cinquefoils and feathered cusps decorate the whole screen, which is twelve feet thick. In the passage through it a door on the right opens into a winding staircase to the loft above and one on the left into a deep pit.
We pass on to the Choir. This is of three styles: the first three bays on the north side are Twelfth Century; the first three on the south side, Perpendicular; and the last three on both sides, Decorated. The triforium windows are filled with glass.