​We turn to our left and into the north aisle. The aisles are 20 ft (6m) high and 15 ft (4.6m) wide. They are lit by five windows corresponding to the arches of the nave. Each of these windows is divided into three ‘lights’ separated by stone tracery or carved mullions and decorated interlaced stonework above. No two windows are of the same pattern. At the first window can be seen the fine wooden carving of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph on the Flight into Egypt. Mary, carrying Jesus, rides a donkey while Joseph look protectively on. This statue was erected by the Confraternity of the Holy Family in the 1950’s. As we move up the aisle we can see the carved and painted ‘Stations of the Cross’ on the wall between the windows. Each of these 14 scenes commemorates a ‘station’, or stopping point, on the way from our Lord’s condemnation to death by Pontius Pilate until His burial in the tomb on Calvary some hours later on the first Good Friday. These ‘Stations’ were carved in Bavaria, and erected here in the 1920’s. You will also see at intervals several plain brass crosses with candle sconces below. There are twelve of them, and they mark the places where the bishop blessed the walls of the church with the holy oil of Chrism at the Consecration ceremony in 1905. Candles are lit before these crosses every year on the anniversary of the Consecration day.
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