Cutting-edge design
The Chapel's architect Richard of Farnham employed the latest ideas in early English Gothic architecture used in Lincoln, Salisbury and Fountains Abbey.
He levelled the ground so the floor of the Chapel is lower than the main part of the Cathedral. This gives a sense of soaring height helped by the slender ribs of the vaulting and tall, narrow windows.
The large northern window with its double tracery, or stonework, was probably the last part of the building to be constructed.
Look up!
The carved bosses, or circular stones, in the roof are particularly fine examples. The massive weight of the roof is held up by buttresses on the outside of the east wall.