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Ely Cathedral (4), Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
The South Aisle. This aisle contains a number of memorials.
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Bishop West's Chantry Chapel. This chapel is at the east end of the South Aisle and displays some extraordinary decoration.
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Bishop Alcock's Chantry Chapel. John Alcock, who founded this chapel, became Bishop of Ely in 1486. His chapel has a beautiful fan vault ceiling and is the only one in Ely with such a ceiling.
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This stone canopy, in the North Aisle, once stood over the tomb of Bishop Hotham within the Choir. His tomb now stands in the South Choir Aisle.
For many years this canopy was mistaken for part of the Shrine of St Ethelreda. The fragments of stone beneath may have belonged to Ethelreda's shrine which was destroyed at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII. A slate slab in the Presbytery marks where her shrine stood.
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