The Queen's College . ense circa cameram propositi, pictori in libraria xxvj s. viij d. ^ It may be seen in its original position in Loggans picture of the College(Plate XXXI, opposite ii. 64), and in its present state (Plate XV^I, oppositei. 166). * This window appears to have been of an exceptional character. It cost£5 to make in 1519, and figures and coloured glass for it and some other ofthe Provosts windows cost in the same year 19*. lOrf., and there wore otherexpenses as well. Woods reference to it (History and Antiquities, p. 151) is asfollows :— Tho. Langton Bishop of Winchester built
The Queen's College . ense circa cameram propositi, pictori in libraria xxvj s. viij d. ^ It may be seen in its original position in Loggans picture of the College(Plate XXXI, opposite ii. 64), and in its present state (Plate XV^I, oppositei. 166). * This window appears to have been of an exceptional character. It cost£5 to make in 1519, and figures and coloured glass for it and some other ofthe Provosts windows cost in the same year 19*. lOrf., and there wore otherexpenses as well. Woods reference to it (History and Antiquities, p. 151) is asfollows :— Tho. Langton Bishop of Winchester built four other chambers (seeabove, p. 153, and n. 1, p. 154) on the east side of the College, joining tothose, if I mistake not, which Muskham built ( the great Gate, p. 327).He also built the dining-room over the Provosts parlour, or at least the greatbay window joining to it, supported by pillars; for on it without side (on theoutside of it) is cut in stone a musical note called a Long, set on a tun, and a vine X. o HZ (^ H OS wm o« o s < oz H z K THE ANTE-CHAPEL 167 the vine, thinks that it was the Provost who built the bay window,but the date of the charge for it seems to fix its erection to theyear after the ante-chapel was built. The library at this time stood at the south-western corner ofthe College buildings. Echeloned with it, more to the north andeast, stood the Provosts chambers, which with the Refectory orHall formed the western side of the main quadrangle, the chapelbeing in the south-east corner. There was a good space between thenorth-western corner of the original chapel and the south-easterncorner of the Provosts building, and when a cottage west of thechapel had been removed there was an open space bounded onthe west by the library and on the north by the south wall of theProvosts house.^ The new ante-chapel built by Robert Langtonextended westward of the chapel and was twice as wide as thechapel.^ Its northern wing filled up the whole of the spacebetw
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