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The upper part of the apse has lost its semicircular shape and been squared, and some masonry has been thrown across from its wall to the Decorated buttress, the motive having been perhaps to make a better support for the rectangular east end of the Lady-loft. The oak table in this room was probably the Communion-table of the church during the period following the Reformation.
The north side of the recess in which the east window is set, is partially splayed outwards to join the last Decorated buttress, which with its neighbour have been cut back in this storey to the plane of the pinnacles above doubtless when this Lady-loft was added.
Where its wall joins the transept the stone-work seems to be of the same date on both sides of the corner, so that there may have been an original buttress or wall extending southwards from this point. The third storey is now the Cathedral library, but was originally the =Lady-chapel=, and was commonly called the Lady-loft.
A view of the crypt as it was before the removal of the bones represents the vaulting as propped also by certain pillars of Perpendicular character. These may have been removed by Sir Gilbert Scott. I.e., if that wall was not erected contemporaneously with the said Lady Chapel. Can Leland mean that the books, then as now, were in the Lady-loft, and that part of it was used as a vestry?
By this time the church contained nine chantries, namely, those of St. John the Evangelist and St. John the Baptist ; of St. Thomas of Canterbury ; of the Holy Trinity subtus altare ; of Our Lady 'in the Lady-loft'; and of St. In some of these, other chantries had been merged. There were also four or five chantries in various chapels in the parish.
To the right of this entrance is a square-headed lavatory with a projecting rectangular basin and a hole knocked through into the lobby behind. This lavatory is of course an insertion, probably of the fifteenth century; indeed the whole of this part of the wall has been much repaired with limestone. The aisle is somewhat darkened by the fact that its first four windows look into the Lady-loft.
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