Tournai - Cathédrale Notre-Dame Transept

The transept (1140-1160) adjoining the nave, which reaches a height of 48m/156ft at the crossing, shows in the finer detailed working and in the slender lines of the pillars the transition to Gothic. The transept ends unusually in semi-circular fashion as a kind of two additional choir ambulatories beneath the galleries. Remains of 12th C. frescoes show, on the right, the Heavenly Jerusalem, on the left the Martyrdom of St Margaret. The glass pictures (15th-16th C.) mostly by Arnold of Nijmegen draw their motifs from the history of the bishopric of Tournai.