Ely Cathedral
Work on creating the Lady Chapel began in 1321, linked to the chancel by a covered walkway. It’s 100 feet (30m) long and 46 feet (14m) wide, and was built in the Decorated Gothic style over the next 30 years. It’s a very light space with Purbeck marble pillars and gives an overwhelming impression of whiteness, although originally its 93 carved relief sculptures would have been painted, and the windows presumably filled with stained glass (and possibly a bit gaudy…). During the reformation, the edict to remove images from the cathedral was carried out very thoroughly by Bishop Thomas Goodrich. Under his orders, first the shrines to the Anglo-Saxon saints were destroyed, and as iconoclasm increased, nearly all the stained glass and much of the sculpture was destroyed or defaced. In the Lady Chapel the free-standing statues were destroyed and all 147 carved figures in the frieze of St Mary were decapitated. Having Oliver Cromwell a resident in Ely (when not in Parliament or fighting in the Civil War) probably ensured that nothing escaped their puritan zeal. 
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