12 SEPTEMBER 1925, Page 17

THE CHAPEL OF OUR LADY OF THE PEW

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In the Spectator of August 22nd your reviewer laments that the author of An Entertainment for Lady-Dayes should have fallen into the error of supposing that the chapel of our Lady of the Pew was in Westminster Abbey. It is true that the passage from Stow quoted by him referred to the chapel adjoining St. Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster, and not to a chapel in the Abbey church ; nevertheless, such a chapel did exist, on the North side of the church, and was referred to in Henry VII.'s time as "the chapel' of our ladie . . . called the olde lady of Pewe." (Indenture of foundation of the chapel called of Henry VII., Lansdown MS. 441.)—I am,