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In the 15th century several parts of Gloucester Cathedral were rebuilt: the west front, the west bays and south porch of the nave c. 1430, the crossing tower c. 1450-57, and the Lady chapel c. 1468-82. The tower, although owing much in its overall conception to the crossing tower (c. 1375) of Worcester Cathedral, exceeds its model and all other English cathedral towers in the extent to which structural mass is treated as seemingly weightless surface panelling. The openwork corner pinnacles are elaborations of the pinnacles (c. 1360) on the east front of the presbytery. The even more extensive and literal borrowings from the presbytery that are evident in the design of the spacious Lady chapel exemplify the powerful influence that the pioneering mid-14th-century work continued to exert in the region during the late Middle Ages.
The photo shows the Lady Chapel.
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