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Lady chapel
Orig. Our Lady (or Lady's) chapel.
A chapel dedicated to the Virgin, attached to large churches, generally situated eastward of the high altar.
1439in E. Eng. Wills 114 A C łb wex to mynystere and to serue to the vse of the Salue of oure lady chapell yn the said chirch of seynt Austyns. 1553T. Rose in Foxe A. & M. (1583) II. 2084/2, I was called agayne into Christes church within their Ladies chapell (as they termed it). a1562G. Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 78 And there..in our Lady Chappell he sayd his servyce & masse. 1710Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 339 Queen Katherin..was buried at Westminster, in our Ladies Chapell. 1718B. Willis Mitred Abbeys I. Index 2 The Lady Chapel [in text our Ladys Chapel] adorn'd and other parts of the Church improved. 1880Times 8 June 4/1 There was a chancel at the east end, and at the side a ‘Lady chapel’—each with its altar. |