Glastonbury, The Abbey, St Joseph's Chapel 1927
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More about this scene
The Lady Chapel is also known as St Mary's Chapel, and just to confuse matters further it is popularly known as St Joseph's Chapel - 'Joseph' being Joseph of Arimathea who was said in legend to have visited Glastonbury, rather than Joseph the husband of Mary. In fact, it is thought that St Joseph's Chapel may have been the chapel in the crypt below the Lady Chapel. This crypt was constructed around 1500 when Richard Bere was Abbot. A record of 1724 states that the crypt was constantly full of water, then it was cleared in 1825. This photograph is a good general view of the chapel looking from the north-west. Not much has changed since the photo- graph was taken, although some of the trees and vegetation has been removed. There is a date of 1909 on some of the stonework of the right-hand corner, a record of the year in which this stone was reconstructed.
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