Figure 2 : Abbey of Saint-Germaindes-Prés in Jacques Bouillart , Histoire de l ' abbaye royale de Saint Germain des Prez ( Paris , 1724 )
Introduction
Winchester College has medieval glass from three separate programmes in its collection : a midthirteenth century scene from the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris , the late fourteenth-century glass of the college chapel , and an early sixteenth-century window in the south wall of Thurbern ’ s Chantry . This booklet looks at how and why each programme of glass was commissioned , their content , and their history since the Middle Ages .
All of them were intended to enhance sacred spaces and therefore show Christian subjects , and all have been moved , at some point , from their original setting . Created across a period of significant artistic and architectural change , they demonstrate the development of stained glass production techniques and the Gothic style from the mid-thirteenth to sixteenth centuries .
Figure 1 : Winchester College Chapel ( left ) with Thurbern ’ s Chantry at the base of the tower . Fromond ’ s Chantry ( right ) to the south of chapel and at the centre of the medieval cloister
2 Medieval Glass at Winchester College