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Lady chapel - A chapel dedicated to the Virgin, usually built east of the chancel and forming a projection from the main building.
Lady Chapel - Hereford Cathedral
Lancet window - A slender pointed-arched window, much used in the early c 13.

 


Lady Chapel : If you are considering taking on some part time work in one of the Notre Dames, you had better memorize this term. The Lady Chapel will be found in all the Notre Dames, as well as many of the Great Gothic Cathedrals.

Lady chapel - the easternmost chapel of a cathedral, intended for quiet contemplation and the occasional special service.

Lady Chapel
A chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Lancet
A tall, narrow, pointed window.

The Lady Chapel of Liverpool Cathedral, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott overseen by G F Bodley
Collegiate Gothic buildings of Boston College.
The Reynolds Club, a building on the campus of the University of Chicago ...

which resulted in the episcopal or archiepiscopal cross plans of Lincoln, Beverley, and Salisbury -- long, narrow naves, equally long choirs, widely-spreading, aisled transepts, and frequently choir transepts as well, with a deep Lady Chapel ...

Fan vaulting is peculiar to England, the only example approaching it in France being the pendant of the Lady chapel at Caudebec, in Normandy.

Interior view of Lady chapel
Interior view of lavatorium
Interior view of nave
Interior view of north choir tribune
Interior view of presbytery
Interior view of southeast corner of cloister
Interior view of south Andrew chapel ...

often in a contrasting colour, linking openings on different floors.Lacing courseHorizontal reinforcement in timber or brick to walls of flint, cobble, etc.Lade(Scots): Channel formed to bring water to a mill; mill-race.Lady chapel ...

verticality and the functional logic of the French cathedrals, the English churches emphasize length and horizontality, replacing the French polygonal apse with a square east end that is sometimes further prolonged by a rectangular Lady chapel (a ...

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