Longitudinal Section
Longitudinal Section (section looking west). The spacious interior, 230 feet long, rises to 150 feet in the central lantern, and 90 feet in the paneled nave and choir barrel vaults that rise close up into the roof space. The clerestory is seen to be blended into the base of the paneled vaulting as small windows. A gallery stretches between the nave towers (left). A stately late-Decorated Gothic style is used in the interior, with tracery variation in the aisle rosettes softening the repetition of multi-shafted columns and bay arcades. Tall double windows illuminate the four corners of the octagonal central lantern. An Ely Cathedral-like vaulting set, and central half-timber ceiling, complete the lantern. What the crypt lacks in length it makes up in height with a 25 foot ceiling.