Gloucester Cathedral - IV

The St. Andrews chapel is filled with wonderful paintings and frescoes.

Below are the effigies of Abraham Blackleech, died 1639, and his wife.

He looks as if he is about to burst into song.

Here is the choir and the screen separating it from the nave.

Next is the Lady Chapel

Gloucester Cathedral’s magnificent Lady Chapel was the last part of the church to be built during the Medieval period in the 15th century.

 

Dedicated to ‘Our Lady’, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, the Lady Chapel is unique in its design and decoration.

 

It has a vaulted roof on a series of stone arches filled with stained-glass windows; these were made by the famous Arts and Crafts designer Christopher Whall in the early 1900s.

 

In front of the altar are the wooden rails made in 1617 on the orders of William Laud (Dean of Gloucester until 1621). Behind the high altar, the Chapel’s reredos bears the scars of the Reformation and the Civil War – a poignant reminder to all. (source)

And here is the rear screen of the choir.