Amiens Cathedral

The space is very tight here: the brick building with white trim on the left is the bishop's palace. In the Middle Ages the bishop could pass directly into the choir via an elevated passage through a door opening in the outer wall of the first bay.
The north transept façade is austere: the portal does not have figurative sculpture in the jambs or voussoirs and the tympanum was left open until the installation of the glazed tympanum in the fourteenth century. At the center stands a bishop, often interpreted as Saint Honoré, while at the base of the trumeau are images of the Annunciation and Nativity. Odd, since in the matching portal on the south side Mary stands atop a bishop..
The lowest level of the north transept was done with the earliest work soon after 1220; the west aisle (to the right) was raised up to the level of the window and vault toward 1230; work than came back later (1240s) to the upper levels of the facade, The portal was left unfinished; the tracery of the upper windows is repair work from soon after 1300.