In the gable, a pretty group representing the Coronation of the Holy Virgin was injured by the fires of 1914.
Of the two fine statues on the top of the buttresses framing the Central door, only the right-hand one (Solomon) exists to-day; the other, representing the Queen of Sheba, was destroyed by a shell in September, 1914, except the head, which was saved.
LEFT-HAND SPLAYING AND LINTEL OF THE CENTRAL DOOR (Cliché LL.)
The Right-Hand Door
See photograph on p. [25].
On the lintel, Saint Paul, blind, is being led to Ananias, who restores his sight and baptizes him.
On the jambs are pretty little figures which have been variously interpreted. The majority represent vices and virtues, e.g. on the inner portion: Courage, in knightly raiment; Cowardice fleeing before a hare; Charity holding out a purse; Avarice with a cash-box; on the outer portion: Pride blasted and overthrown with his horse; Sloth, represented as a man seated with his head resting on his elbows, in a stall; Wisdom seated, holding a book and a lighted lamp. On the same jambs other figures are supposed to symbolise the seasons: Autumn sitting on a vine-trellis; Winter standing before a fire place; Spring in the midst of flowers; Summer with bared chest.
