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Ely Cathedral: The Lady Chapel The English Cathedral exhibition by Peter Marlow

The Lady Chapel was built in 1349 with elaborate decoration and stained glass. It was vandalised twice by iconoclasts who destroyed the stautes and painted plaster in in the niches 1539 and the stained glass in 1643.

East elevation and altar.

Statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary by David Wynne (2000).

14th century altar anglican black white floor burwell stone bvm carved boss cathedral chapel christian clunch stone cusp exhibition gold gothic heated floor interior iron limestone medieval monochrome floor niche ogee ollite stone pedestal picture frame pointed arch portrait orientation purbeck marble religious rib vault rotated triangle pattern statue stone tracery vaulted ceiling vertical orientation