Exeter College
Fourteenth-century college whose Victorian chapel was modelled on the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris.
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This guide to Exeter College in Oxford follows Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter and treasurer to Edward the Second, on an October day in thirteen twenty-six when he rides into a London in uproar. It reaches back to the money he raised, the lands he seized and the queen who came to count him an enemy, and to the hall he founded for poor scholars from Devon and Cornwall. Best heard in the Front Quadrangle, within sight of the college coat of arms.
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