page_title: Clifton Cathedral
section_title: Lady Chapel
hierarchical_section_title: Clifton Cathedral / Interior / Lady Chapel
caption_attribution_description: English: Clifton Cathedral, Clifton Park, Bristol BS8 3BX, UK
context_page_description: The Cathedral Church of SS. Peter and Paul is the Roman Catholic cathedral of the city of Bristol. Located in the Clifton area of the city, it is the seat and mother church of the Diocese of Clifton and is known as Clifton Cathedral. It has been a Grade II* Listed Building since 2000. From the 1970s, one church building, Clifton Cathedral, is Grade II*. It was the first Cathedral built under new guidelines arising from the Second Vatican Council.
context_section_description: The Lady Chapel is off the Ambulatory, near to the Narthex [see Plan]. It is a chapel dedicated to Mary, Mother of Christ. Terry Jones, a young student of sculpture studying at the University of Swansea, was commissioned to fashion in bronze ‘Mary the Woman of Faith’ a simple design to reflect the deep significance of this woman as the Mother of God [G on Plan]. Rather than a queen dressed in finery, it depicts something closer to the truth: a simple peasant woman, without a young child in her arms.
  The votive candelabra hanging in the Lady Chapel [H on Plan] is made from twenty stainless steel equilateral triangles (a regular icosahedron) and was designed and made by Brother Patrick, of Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire. It features in a pop music video (see Appearances in Media section).
  Also in the Lady Chapel is a Lampedusa Cross [J on Plan]. This is made from wood from migrant boats destroyed in the Mediterranean and recovered from Lampedusa, Italy between 2012 and 2016. It is similar to the British Museum’s Lampedusa Cross and is intended to reflect Pope Francis’s 2017 ‘Share the Journey’ exhortation for the Church to care for, and show solidarity to, all migrants and asylum seekers.
caption: 'Mary, the woman of Faith', bronze, by Terry Jones, Clifton Cathedral
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