Lincoln College
Fifteenth-century college on a narrow lane, its chapel lit by painted enamel glass of prophets and apostles.
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This guide to the chapel glass of Lincoln College in Oxford follows Abraham van Linge, a window painter from a family of glaziers in Emden, and an entry the university made under his name in sixteen thirty-four. It reaches back to his brother Bernard's flight from Paris to London, to the enamel technique the pair used as stained glass fell out of fashion, and to Bishop John Williams, who paid to refit the chapel. Best heard near the side windows.
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