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The Galilee Porch at the Grade I listed Lincoln Cathedral, in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.

 

A galilee is a chapel or porch at the west end of some churches where penitent, those being repentance of sins, waited before admission to the body of the church and where clergy received women who had business with them. Aside from Lincoln remaining galilee also exist in Durham & Ely Cathedrals.

 

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