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Lincoln Cathedral certainly has a great number of round windows! Shown here are the central West rose window (Photograph #1), the North and South transept windows (##2, 3), the Northwest oculus, and the oculus in the Chapter House (above the entry door). Photograph #6 shows that we might expect to see a Southwest oculus as well, but the interior space adjacent to the shop appears not to have public access. • The cinquefoil rose window (#1) shows the builder of Lincoln Cathedral, Bishop Remigius de Fécamp. • On the North side of the cathedral there is the ‘Dean's Eye’ (##2, 8) which survives from the original structure of the building. Work on it began in 1220 and was completed in 1235. Repair work started in 1990 and lasted for 12 years on the largest restoration programme anywhere in Europe. The window tells the story of the Last Judgement. It faces North, from where evil was believed to come. • The Bishop’s Eye window in the South transept (##3, 9, 10) is particularly interesting. The window was most likely rebuilt c 1325–1350. This window is one of the largest examples of curvilinear tracery seen in medieval architecture. Curvilinear tracery is a form of tracery where the patterns are continuous curves. Here the circle is divided by two arcs which create four distinct areas of the circle. This makes the spaces within the circle where the tracery would go much smaller, and easier to work with. The Bishop’s Eye faces South to invite in the Holy Spirit. • Window #4 (#11) appears in the Morning Chapel. The window shows Christ with a shepherd’s staff ministering to a crowd of mainly women and children. • The central panel of the Chapter House window (#5) shows the Council at Jerusalem. The surrounding scenes are from the Acts of the Apostles.