1

north aisle; its position and size therefore can only be determined inferentially. There can be little doubt that it stood immediately to the west of St. James's chapel, but how far it extended in a westward direction is a matter of some uncertainty. Hollinworth, writing about 1650, says that "at the uppmost end of the outmost North ally, neere to Strangewaies (i.e. St. James's) Chappell, was a very rich window, whereby was described our Saviors arreignment and crucifixion with some pictures of the Trinity." There were also in the window at that time some mutilated verses "in worshippe of the Trenite " which he transcribes. The account proceeds: "In this corner under this window, its probable there stood an altar, and that it was a place of much devotion, it is said it was for the countrey." The window is shown on plate 3 opposite p. 245 of Foundations, Vol. II (which also, it may be remarked, shows the two screens of St. James's chapel in situ), and is there seen to occupy a position to the north of the former transverse arch and corresponding relatively with the situation of the smaller east window in St. George's chapel. The arch, as already pointed out in the description of St. James's chapel, had at that time been removed.

Commenting upon the passage from Hollinworth, Canon Raines remarks: 'This altar seems to have been a favourite place of resort for devotional purposes to individuals who came from remote parts of the parish, and might have been partly intended by the founder for their use."2 Hence we conclude that the chapel was large.

It may be assumed, on the analogy of St. George's chapel, to have extended at least as far west as the old north porch, which originally opened into the present inner north aisle. Mr. Crowther3 was of opinion that it extended to the

1 Mancuniensis, pp. 46, 47.

2 Chantries, Vol. I, p. 53. 3 Op. cit. PP, 22, 23.

present west wall, and that the porch, erected a few years before by Warden Langley (1465-1481), was removed to make way for it.1 In any case the arches communicating with the aisle would in all probability be furnished with screens, but of these no records seem now to be recoverable. As the chantry was founded by William Radcliffe, of Ordsall, apparently only a short time before his death in 1498, the type of its screenwork would be approximately that exemplified by the slightly later work of St. James's chapel, now preserved in the Ely chapel.

1 The location of the chapel in the fine plan of the church given in The Builder

of April 1st, 1893, which assigned it to a position now occupied by the western bay of the outer north aisle, cannot be accepted