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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.

West elevation

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