chapel

Grief, too, steers us, a cleansing ritual, as I recall each time my wife and I meander beneath Green-Wood’s leafy canopy, parakeets swooping and chattering overhead, or sit quietly in its hushed chapel.

The tower had living quarters, courtyards, kitchens, a great hall where feasting took place and a chapel with a burial ground.

He said: "The baby should have been in a chapel of rest and she wasn't, so we were like, 'what's going on here?'"

When his parents became desperately ill, though, Mr Paterson pulled his relatives into the hospital chapel and told them he suspected his estranged wife had been trying to poison him for years.

There will then be a private removal on Saturday morning, with the funeral cortege arriving at the chapel for a funeral Mass beginning at 12:00.