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30 June 2011

Lady Chapel

Ely Cathedral

The Lady Chapel is said to be the largst in the UK although I find it difficult to
believe theat it is larger than Liverpool Cathedral Lady Chapel

The Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral is a gracious, light and open space. Its foundations were laid in 1321 and it was completed in 1349, when it would have looked very different from today. It was highly coloured, with windows alive with stained glass and painted statues in the niches. All this was destroyed in the sixteenth century during the Reformation, which, in keeping with Puritan convictions, rejected all forms of religious decoration.


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