DOORWAY OF THE SOUTHERN TRANSEPT
(see photo, p. [104])
The 15th century leaves of the door are composed of wood panels in blind arcading, ornamented with flowering clover.
On the buttresses which frame the doorway are five statues of saints, including St. Remi, St. Benedict, and St. Christopher carrying a kneeling Jesus on his shoulder.
The tympanum of the gable above the great flamboyant window is arranged on a Gothic pediment. Its decoration represents the Assumption of the Virgin and her crowning in Heaven.
On the top of the pediment, and crowning the whole, is St. Michael trampling Satan underfoot.
The whole of the doorway is a beautiful example of Flamboyant Gothic. Its rich carvings and delicate ornamentation are in striking contrast with the severity of the rest of the building.
At the intersection of the transept, there was formerly a wooden spire, built in 1394, which was pulled down as unsafe in 1825, by order of those who had charge of the arrangements connected with the consecration of Charles X.
On the right-hand side of the transept, and also in the north transept, are small semi-circular chapels.