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A husband, father, and Licensed Lay Minister (Reader) reflecting on life, faith, and the prayers we pray in the Church of England
This is a picture of the altar in the Lady Chapel at Ely Cathedral. Behind the altar you can see the remains of what, I imagine, would have been a truly magnificent reredos. But this, like the rest of the statuary and decoration in the chapel, was destroyed in the sixteenth century during the Reformation — which, in keeping with Puritan convictions, rejected all forms of religious decoration. It must have looked very different in there when the Lady Chapel was completed in 1349.
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Beautiful!
Thanks Ruth.
There is damage everywhere you look in that chapel — figures with the heads knocked off etc. — and yet it is really beautiful. I’ve spent hours in there just wandering around, looking at what the reformers left, and just soaking up the atmosphere.