Lady chapel

noun

a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, attached to a church, and generally behind the high altar at the extremity of the apse.

Lady Chapel

1400–50; late Middle English ( oure ) lady chapell

All went to the timber yard—every bit except some little pieces worked up in the Lady Chapel, and 'ere in this overmantel.

It rests at the base of one of the outer pillars of the Lady Chapel, opposite the spot of Racine's final sepulture.

The vestry was formerly a Lady-chapel, possibly Saxon, with a thirteenth-century door and a curious mutilated altar.

About the same time the great Lady-chapel at the east angle of the northern transept was added.

Such a position for a Lady-chapel—at the south side of the choir, and in an upper storey—is extremely unusual.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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