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Abbaye Fontfroide, France. The Abbaye was bought by a family around 1900, and restored from ruin. Sometime early in their stewardship (1910? 1920?) they hired an artist to redo the stained glass in the chapel. While it's not secular, the glass is distinctly different from most churches, and I found it particularly beautiful. (This one was particularly tough: if I left the red the gorgeous deep shade we saw in the chapel, you wouldn't be able to see any detail at all in the image, so what you see is a compromise.)

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Photo © 2009, Giles Orr

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