Lady Chapel

A Lady Chapel or St. Mary's Chapel is one of Mary clearly dedicated and outwardly - and therefore in the floor plan can also be clearly recognized - vertex chapel at the east end of an English cathedral.

Traditionally, a Lady Chapel, the largest chapel of a cathedral. It was generally built east of the main altar. Famous examples are or were in Winchester, Salisbury, Exeter, Wells, St Albans, Chichester, Peterborough and Norwich ( the latter two were destroyed). In Durham, it is as though narthex to the west.

The earliest Lady Chapel is found in the Anglo- Saxon cathedral of Canterbury. Your location within the church was changed several times. Archbishop Lanfranc, it moved first to the west end of the nave, then - in 1450 - on the east side of the North transept. In Ely, she was also affiliated with the northern transept - in Rochester, however, west of the southern transept arm.

Around 1220 Henry III built. with a length of 30 feet, the largest ever built Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey. It borders today at the Chapel of Henry VII

Other notable Marie chapels are located in Ottery -St- Mary, Thetford, Bury St. Edmund's, Wimborne, Highfield ( Hampshire), Compton Church ( Surrey ), Compton Martin ( Somerset ) and Darenth ( Kent). In the Croyland Abbey there were two chapels Marie.

A correspondence to the Lady Chapel in the church of the north German brick Gothic are the Marientidenkapellen.

  • Church (architecture)
  • Cathedral in England
  • St. Mary's Church in the United Kingdom
Wells, Somerset Henry III of England Henry VII of England Wimborne Minster Little Office of Our Lady
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