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English: Stained glass window (1958) by W. Tom Carter Shapland.

Top: The Arms of New College Oxford and Winchester College

Below left: The Arms of The Inner Temple

Below right: The Arms of Merchant Taylors School

Left main light top: King Edgar

Left main light middle: St Dustan, Archbishop of Canterbury

Let main light bottom: Hugh Dandies, the Chronicler writes The Abbey in in flames (afterwards rebuilt)

Centre main light top: The Arms of The Diocese and Bishop Spencer Leeson

Centre main light middle: St Benedict of Nursia with the Book of the Benedictine Rule

Centre main light bottom: The Powers of evil defeated

Right main light top: Queen Ethelfleda

Right main light middle: St Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester

Right main light bottom: The Book of the Chronicle is rescued from the Cromwellian soldier 1643.

Archbishop Dunstan, Bishop Ethelwold, King Edgar and his Queen were instrumental in establishing a Benedictine Monastery here in 970AD.

The window, in memory of Bishop Spencer Leeson depicts the triumph of Goodness, Order, Discipline and Education over the forces of evil, violence, ignorance and destruction.
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