lady chapel
| In church architecture, a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, usually a prolongation of the choir, built eastward of the high altar and projecting from the main building, but often an extension of a side aisle. |
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His heart became lighter only when he visited his faithful animals at the recreation hour, or when he knelt in the Lady Chapel in front of a statue of Mary holding her infant son, where he thought back over the years of all the children he had amused. Now, stonemasons carrying out restoration work at the 13th-century Lady Chapel at Hereford Cathedral in western England have carved Butch's likeness on a 4-foot block that will be set at the top of a pinnacle in the chapel's east face. Tucke apparently began collecting theoretical materials at the age of eighteen at Winchester College, copied them into a "notebook" during his years at New College, Oxford, and continued this compilation during his tenure as lay master of the Lady Chapel of the Benedictine abbey of St. |
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