still.

The martyrdom of St Edmund in the next spandrel is a most realistic
picture. The saint is tied to a tree and is pierced by fourteen arrows.
The black-letter inscriptions read "Edmund Prync and martyr."

"Heven blys to hes mede
Hem sall have for hys gud ded"

Above this picture is the painting already mentioned of St Thomas à Becket
being approached by the four knights who are about to murder him.

On the south side of the nave the chief part of the wall is given up to
the legend of St Katherine of Alexandria. She was said to be the daughter
of Costus, King of Alexandria, and was married to a son of Constantine
Chlorius, the Roman Governor of York.

The upper panel shows the temple of Serapis, and St Katherine endeavouring
to convert the Emperor Maximin to Christianity. Further to the right she
is shown entering the prison into which she was cast. The emperor,
impressed both by her beauty and her arguments, endeavours with the help
of several philosophers to persuade her to give up her belief in
Christianity; they are, however, all converted by her, and soon after they
are executed at the emperor's command. St Katherine is then stripped to
the waist and beaten in the presence of the emperor, who is shown on the
extreme right as well as the left of the second panel. After further
imprisonment the saint is joined by the Empress Faustina, a new convert,
who comforts the prisoner, and is shown joining with her in prayer.

Further on, the emperor is shown testing the saint's faith by the wheel,