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Lady Chapel

Lady Chapel

Lady chapel

A chapel dedicated to Our Lady, often attached to the choir of a church at the end opposite the nave, or forming a separate small building joined to the church by a covered passage. In tbe English cathedrals it was usually a deep chapel prolonging the main axis to the east; in France the largest and easternmost of the chevet chapels, i.e., the crown of chapels.

Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Lady Chapel

a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary (” Our Lady”), and usually, but not always, placed eastwards from the altar when attached to cathedrals. Henry VII’s chapel at Westminster is the lady chapel of that cathedral.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature