York Guides

The north transept

This was originally similar to the south transept, but the alterations made here by Abbot Huby were more extensive, for he blocked the arches of both the central and northern chapels to strengthen the wall near his new tower. There is a doorway in the blocking wall of the central chapel arch, with a bracket for a statue above it and an inscription recording that here was the altar of St. Michael the Archangel. The chapel itself has remains of the altar and its platform, a piscina in the south wall, and fragments of a thirteenth-century mosaic tile pavement.

The blocking wall of the north chapel arch also has an inscription, now indecipherable, and an altar set against the wall in the transept. After the arch was blocked, the northern chapel was reached through the central chapel by a doorway forced through the back of its piscina.