chapter houses

“In its polygonal chapter houses England developed a brilliant conception all its own, and almost the same might be said of the parish church, while in the designing of tombs, chantries, reredoses, choir-screens, and chancel-fittings of wood, the delicate fancy of the English had full play in the creation of a mass of exquisite sculpture and joinery that has no counterpart elsewhere.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

“The west fronts of Peterborough, Bury St. Edmunds, Wells, Ely, and Lincoln; the chapter houses of York,”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI