Ambulatory

Here you can see into the first three radiating chapels on the south side, dedicated to Saints Eloi, Nicaise and James. In the first chapel of Saint Eloi look at the form of the dado: its form differs from the dado in the choir aisle. We no longer see the trilobed arches of the type used throughout the rest of the cathedral, down to the west end, but instead we see cusped arches characteristic of the 1240s. The forms of the capitals and arches above have also changed: here we have triangular capitals and abaci and arch profiles which are wedge-shaped--very unlike the flat surfaces of the transverse arches further west. This is the work of Thomas of Cormont in the 1240s. The chapel of Saint Eloi was decorated with painted sibyls (prophets) under the patronage of Dean Adrien de Hénencourt.

The 19th-century painting shows the holy hermit Ulphe, accompanied by her confessor Saint Domice, Ulphe is beseeching the frogs to desist from their croaking.