4. The North Transept

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The North Nave Transept of Rochester Cathedral was the access route for medieval pilgrims and once contained the Jesus Chapel and a Chapel to St. Ursula. The area features some of the finest human corbels and label stops in the cathedral. St John Hope (1898, 247) suggested the north transept was completed c.1255. However, Alexander (2006, 162) suggests much of the architectural evidence supports a date of c.1240 for the completion of both the north and south nave transept, by different masons but without a significant pause in work. Today, the north half of the transept, once a baptistry, contains a fresco by Russian iconographer Sergei Fyodorov, completed in 2004.

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