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brought to Oxford. There are three main windows: the one in the center is a display of Christ; below him are Mary, Martha, and Mary
Magdelene with an inscription underneath that reads: “But His teaching Christ brought the meaning of true womanhood to every woman of every nation and every home.” This window was dedicated to Jeremiah P.E. Kumler, D.D. The west window represented the
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to the east side of Kumler Chapel. The building’s arch and mortar collapsed on
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The chapel was originally used for church services, baccalaureates, and convocation for the
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The windows of Kumler Chapel are extremely important and possess great meaning. They are Gothic pointed arches with the absence of tracery; this style dates back to the
Romanesque period. The windows were originally designed for a chapel by Montague-Castle-London Company of New York, and then
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