DOORWAY OF THE NORTHERN ARM OF TRANSEPT.
NORTH FRONT.
Choir and North Arm of Transept, Nov. 1918. See description, p. [29].
The Exterior of the Cathedral (Nov. 1918).
The bombardments seriously damaged the side façades of the cathedral. All the stone-work, bays, flying-buttresses and abutments, and all the roofing and framework collapsed as far as the first bays of the nave. The building is, so to speak, cut into two unequal parts throughout its entire width, by an immense gap. (Photo p. [31], Panorama p. [14]).
THE FIRST SHELLS TO HIT THE MAIN ROOF.
The rounded arm of the transept and the south end of the choir suffered comparatively little. On the other hand, the bombardments seriously injured the chevet and the north front of the choir. The upper part of one of the high windows in the apse was struck. A buttress of the Lady Chapel was badly broken, while two unexploded shells are embedded in the damaged stone-work of a neighbouring buttress. On the north front of the choir most of the abutments were damaged and the flying-buttresses which support it, more or less injured.
