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The Mass of Our Lady was not said regularly in the Lady-chapel.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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The vestry was formerly a Lady-chapel, possibly Saxon, with
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= Archbishop John de Thoresby = (1352-1373) added to the prebend of Studley the two districts of Dacre and Bewerley, and it was probably about this time that the Lady-chapel (now the Library) was built.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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= Lady-chapel =, and was commonly called the Lady-loft.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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The monogram of the blessed Mary's name, intertwined with pure white lilies on the deep blue ground, was designed and embroidered with holy reverence, and laid on the altar of the Lady-chapel by the trembling hand of one whose sorrows had there found solace, or by another in token of gratitude for joys which were heightened by a conviction of celestial sympathy.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various
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One vicar named Thomas Blackburne had continued the old practice of holding churchings in the Lady-chapel, and was ordered publicly to renounce this error, as well as that of having left "that olde, abhominable, and supersticious vawte called the Wilfride's nedle [24] and the alter therein" undefaced.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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In England the Lady-chapel was generally placed at the side.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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In continental churches the central apse chapel was often the Lady-chapel.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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A Lady-chapel was added in the thirteenth century, and later on a great restoration was commenced by Abbot John Brunyng
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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East of the choir and chancel was added about 1320 an exquisite Lady-chapel, probably built by the Percy family, which had lately acquired the great Northumberland estates of the de Vescis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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