But his scrutiny was attended with no favourable result.
Before resorting to force to obtain admission, he determined to make the complete circuit of the structure, and with this view he shaped his course towards the east.
He found two small doors on the left of the northern transept, but both were fastened, and the low pointed windows beneath the choir, lighting the subterranean church of Saint Faith's, were all barred.

Running on, he presently came to a flight of stone steps at the north-east corner of the choir, leading to a portal opening upon a small chapel dedicated to Saint George.

But this was secured like the others, and, thinking it vain to waste time in trying to force it, he pursued his course.
Skirting the eastern extremity of the fane--then the most beautiful part of the structure, from its magnificent rose window--he speeded past the low windows which opened on this side, as on the other upon Saint Faith's, and did not pause till he came to the great southern portal, the pillars and arch of which differed but slightly in character from those of the northern entrance.
Here he knocked as before, and was answered, as on the former occasion, by sullen echoes from within.

When these sounds died away, he placed his ear to the huge key-hole in the wicket, but could not even catch the fall of a footstep.

Neither could he perceive any light, except that afforded by the moonbeams, which flooded the transept with radiance.
Again hurrying on, he passed the cloister-walls surrounding the Convocation House; tried another door between that building and the church of Saint Gregory, a small fane attached to the larger structure; and failing in opening it, turned the corner and approached the portico,--the principal entrance to the cathedral being then, as now, on the west.
Erected, as before mentioned, from the designs of the celebrated Inigo Jones, this magnificent colonnade was completed about 1640, at which time preparations were made for repairing the cathedral throughout, and for strengthening the tower, for enabling it to support a new spire.