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Stained glass window, Ambulatory, Bourges Cathedral, Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France

King Gundophorus of India instructing his provost, Abbanes, to find an architect, from the stained glass window of St Thomas, depicting the story of the apostle Thomas in India, 1215-25, in bay 16, in the ambulatory of Bourges Cathedral or the Cathedrale Saint-Etienne de Bourges, built 1195-1230 in French Gothic style and consecrated in 1324, in Bourges, Centre-Val de Loire, France. 22 of the original 25 medieval stained glass windows of the ambulatory have survived. The cathedral is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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King Gundophorus of India instructing his provost, Abbanes, to find an architect, from the stained glass window of St Thomas, depicting the story of the apostle Thomas in India, 1215-25, in bay 16, in the ambulatory of Bourges Cathedral or the Cathedrale Saint-Etienne de Bourges, built 1195-1230 in French Gothic style and consecrated in 1324, in Bourges, Centre-Val de Loire, France. 22 of the original 25 medieval stained glass windows of the ambulatory have survived. The cathedral is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen