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A Lady chapel or lady chapel is a traditional British term for a chapel dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus, particularly those inside a cathedral or other large church.The chapels are also known as a Mary chapel or a Marian chapel, and they were traditionally the largest side chapel of a cathedral, placed eastward from the high altar and forming a projection from the main building, as in ...
Pendant fan vault of Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey. The Henry VII Chapel is best known for its combination of pendant fan vault ceiling.Andrew Reynolds refers to the vault as “the most perfect example of a pendant fan vault, the most ambitious kind of vaulting current in the perpendicular period.” [11] Notably, this ceiling was also the first to combine pendants with fan vaulting.
The Lady Chapel (originally intended to be called the Morning Chapel), [10] the first part of the building to be completed, was consecrated in 1910 by Bishop Chavasse in the presence of two Archbishops and 24 other Bishops. [35] The date, 29 June—St Peter's Day—was chosen to honour the pro-cathedral, now due to be demolished. [36]
This was the original Lady Chapel and is the oldest part of the current structure. After John Clopton's death in 1497, his will made provision for the chapel to be extended and refurbished and for him to be buried alongside his wife there. [13] The chapel was then renamed, while the intended Chantry Chapel became the Lady Chapel.
The Lady Chapel. The Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Grace is a place of Marian devotion and pilgrimage sited in the North Yorkshire village of Osmotherley.Christians have visited this small church, known as the “Lady Chapel”, for centuries and continue the tradition through an annual pilgrimage [1] every summer on the Sunday nearest the Feast of the Assumption, 15 August.
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The first record of an organ at Westminster Abbey was the mention of a gift of three marks from Henry III in 1240 for the repair of one (or more) organs. [220] Unum parem organorum ("a pair of organs") was recorded in the Lady Chapel in 1304. [220]