On October 12, 1914, a shell destroyed about twenty five feet of the gallery round the chevet, which later was further damaged by another shell.
The Lateral Façade and South Transept
This façade and transept (which should be seen from the courtyard of the Archbishop's Palace) are identical, as a whole, with the northern façade and transept (see pp. [28] and [42]).
The gallery at the springing of the roof of the nave was entirely rebuilt in 1878 by Architect Millet, in a style foreign to that of the Cathedral.
Among the statues of the transept buttresses that at the corner of the south-western tower, bestriding a lion, is thought by some to represent Pepin-the-Short, and another near him, Charlemagne.
THE LATERAL FAÇADE AND SOUTHERN TRANSEPT IN 1919
The façade of the transept has no doorway. Above the lower storey, the architectural arrangement is the same as that of the northern transept. At the base of the rose-window, on each side, are two very fine statues.
On the left, The Christian Religion, symbolised by a crowned woman with chalice and standard. This statue was destroyed by a German shell in 1918, after being damaged in April 1917.