19 SEPTEMBER 1925, Page 17

THE CHAPEL OF OUR LADY OF THE PEW

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Hope Nicholson very properly points out that there were two chapels of Our Lady of the Pew at Westminster, one in the Abbey, now called the Chapel of St. Erasmus [H. L. Westlake's Westminster Abbey (1923), pp. 72, 351-3], the other adjoining St. Stephen's Chapel [C. L. Kingsford in Archaeologia, lxviii. (1917), pp. 1-17]. It was the latter of these which contained the image so celebrated for its adorn- ment. But where the possibilities of confusion were so great, my censure should have been less strongly expressed, and I owe the " Shepheard Kenelm " an apology.—I am,