Manchester, The Cathedral Choir c.1885
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The Lady Chapel is behind the high altar; unfortunately, all the lovely stained glass seen here was blown out in December 1940 when the cathedral was bombed. The rebuilding took nearly twenty years, and the craftsmen tried to put only the best and finest materials back into Manchester's chief house of God. 192 new traceried panels were fitted to the ancient beams of the choir roof. Thousands of pieces of new wood had to be let into the elaborate canopies of the choir stalls seen here. Most of these stalls had been put here by Sir James Stanley in 1513. He was brother to the man who married the mother of Henry VII, and the family enjoyed power and influence for centuries later. The Derby Chapel on the left, where he now rests, later became the Manchester Regiment Chapel in 1936, when the then Lord Derby gave it to the Regiment.
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