Direction of reading follows a simple left to right, bottom to top pattern. Panels A1-A3 are a conventional telling of the saint's life from birth to his elevation to the episcopacy. The remaining panels are more distinctive - five groups of three panels, each telling one of the many legends associated with St Nicholas. The chronological sequence here becomes irrelevant - indeed events from the saint's lifetime (e.g. the grain ship and the three clerics stories) are positioned after a couple of posthumous miracles. It is a characteristics of some saints (St Martin of Tours is another good example) that their narratives become fragemented and episodic, with legends and miracles accreting over the years as hagiographers add more and more material. The episodic structure here is made even more obvious by the way that each of the five stories is told in three panels.

Although there are no reused cartoons in this window, the artist has used some very similar scenes carefully positioned to increase the visual interest. For example Panel D5 has St Nicolas reaching out to address some mariners approaching from the left (C5) - an arrangement which is then repeated in a different context in the two panels above (D6-C6).