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The small chapel, decorated in the Gothic Revival style with shimmering mosaics and Byzantine influences, is tucked away in Pearson Square, in a quiet corner of London's West End.

She said she recognised it to be the creation of Gothic Revival architect and designer William Burges by chance when she saw a similar piece in a online video by Mr Munn.

In the short snippet, jewelry specialist Geoffrey Munn showed several sketches of brooches designed by Burges, who was known for his Victorian Gothic Revival style.

Its Gothic Revival facade has inspired dozens of replicas across the world.

At 64, she’s had a career as gloriously peripatetic as any I’ve encountered: a longtime New Yorker staff writer; the author of five volumes of poetry, two books of nonfiction and several works for children; a Guggenheim fellow who has seen two of her poems staged as ballets; and for some time a poet in residence at Manhattan’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where she was given an office up a “very, very windy stairway” overlooking its vaulted Gothic Revival interior.