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Nave

Crossing and Transepts

Choir and Retro-Choir
High Altar
Organ
Humble monument
Wooden effigy of a knight
Nonsuch chest
Chapels
Bishop Andrewes' tomb
Bishop Talbot's tomb
Roman mosaic

St Andrew’s Chapel, pictured here, is one of four chapels in the Retro-choir, decorated and furnished by the Edwardian architect Sir Ninian Comper. This chapel now commemorates those people who suffer from or are affected by HIV conditions and AIDS. A communion service is held for them every Saturday and a memorial book of names is nearby. It was in this chapel that Bishop Stephen Gardiner sentenced seven men to death for heresy during the reign of Queen Mary.

Next to it is St Christopher's Chapel designed as a children's chapel. The painted panel behind the altar includes butterflies, symbols of resurrection and human souls. The chapel floor contains memorial tablets to former Provosts and Vice Provosts of the Cathedral. The third chapel is the Lady Chapel. Once the whole Retro-choir was known as the 'Ladye Chapel'. This chapel originally extended much further east and was known as the Bishop's Chapel as it contained the monument to Lancelot Andrewes. It was demolished when the approach road to the new London Bridge was constructed in the 1830s. The last chapel (St Francis and St Elizabeth of Hungary) commemorates those employed in social work. On the south side is an impressive abstract stained glass window by Alan Younger.

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