Before the fire of 1481, there was a lantern over the intersection of the transept.
CENTRAL DOOR OF THE NORTHERN TRANSEPT
The Central Door of the Northern Transept
The sculptural decoration, while rich, is more sober than that of the doorway of the western façade. It is commemorative of the glory of the Archbishops of Rheims.
The statue of the Pontiff with a tiara, backing up to the dividing-pillar, is supposed to be that of St. Sixtus, first Bishop of Rheims. In the splaying, on the left, is St. Nicaise holding his head in his hands, between St. Eutropia, an angel and a figure improbably said to be Clovis.
The pediment was pierced by a shell and scarred with splinters. It is divided into five tiers, and represent the life of St. Remi and St. Nicaise.
Beginning at the bottom, the figures represent: on the first tier, the beheading of St. Nicaise by the Vandals and the Baptism of Clovis by St. Remi; on the second, St. Remi, as a child, restores sight to Montanus and, as a man, exorcises the demons who had set fire to Rheims; on the third, the story of Job; on the fourth, the restoring to life of a young Toulouse girl, and the miracle of the cask filled with wine by St. Remi; on the fifth, Christ between two angels.