E. W. Pugin, the eldest son of A. W. N. Pugin, was responsible for reconstruction of the Chapter House in 1860. The chapter house, which is octagonal, with a conical roof, is a larger replacement of A. W. N. Pugin's original. The chapter house contains one of the abbey's most treasured pieces of art, an early fifteenth century Flemish, life-size wooden figure of the Virgin. This had been found beneath the floorboards of a farmhouse and is thought to have originally been at Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire.