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American development. This glass was popularized by such artists as Frederick Lamb of J&R Lamb Studios, John La Farge, Maitland Armstrong, and Louis Comfort Tiffany. Trinity Church owns thirteen opalescent windows, one by the prestigious studio of J&R Lamb (The Nativity, c.1905) and a dozen by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Dating 1898 to 1936, these windows offer a rare variety of subjects and show the development of Tiffany's style. Most of the windows bear a signature; Some are dated. The array of Tiffany Windows offers a mini-retrospective of his career within the overall retrospective of American stained glass at Trinity Church. The oldest and perhaps the finest Tiffany window is The Ascension (1899), a composition over the altar that consists of three windows. The other Tiffany windows are: Angel with a Script and St. Luke in the chancel; Easter Morn (2 windows), The Good Samaritan, Faith (Angel), Madonna in the east aisle; and, in the west aisle, St. Michael the Archangel and the Benedicite Window, which shows a garden.
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between 1852 and 1855 in the Early Gothic
Revival style. Subsequent additions and renovations have significantly altered the original appearance of the simple brick building. The aisles were widened in 1869-72 and the chancel was extended in 1887. In 1907, 1936, 1955, and 2000 the interior was refurbished. The interior was again rebuilt in 1957, due to the addition of a 20-ton organ. The church properties underwent a massive renovation in 1999–2000. Air conditioning and new electrical systems were added. The stained glass windows were cleaned, repaired, and fitted with new protective glass. The current organ was installed in 2000, as part of the renovation. The church also offers an outdoor brick
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economical mechanized method of pressing molten glass with a metal plumber to form faceted “jewels,” flowers, and other shapes. Although probably more often associated with tableware, pressed glass was also incorporated into church windows. The geometric designs, often based on colorful
Bohemian patterns, were characterized by bright colors and faceted glass jewels. The Passion Window and the Trinity Window (c.1872-80), located on the west side of the church, and the Narcissus Window (c.1887) in the east aisle represent examples of Arts and Crafts Glass.
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The colors alternate between a translucent white and a pale sepia. The borders, on the other hand, consist of brilliant clear glass in deep colors --- sapphire blue, emerald green, topaz yellow---overlaid with a painted black scroll pattern and joined by clear red panes with painted rosette designs in the corners. Five of these windows survive in sitĂą. They include the rose-shaped window in the tower, which is not visible inside, and two windows below on each side of the entrance, which is in the lower part of the tower.
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Company and several other companies in the United States and England strove to meet popular demand. In 1946, Lamb Studios made the Wise Men Window as a companion to the Nativity Window that the company had fabricated some forty years earlier for the same donor family. By then, the style of Lamb glass had changed dramatically. The Wise Men window is rendered in a Neo-Gothic style, with deeper colors and more angular lines.
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European church windows. These windows, fabricated of small pieces of mouth-blown glass, included designs consisting of both figures and symbols.
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Augusta Parish, Trinity is the oldest church in Staunton and one of the first Episcopal congregations west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The first building was completed in 1763. English architect James Wood Johns designed the present church, the third on the site, which was built
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Staunton is the magnificent array of stained-glass windows in Trinity Church. Five distinct styles of glass can be discerned. The oldest windows in the church, which date from the 1850s, consist of non-figurative glass cut into diamond-shaped pieces.
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Tiffany formulae for opalescent glass were destroyed at the time of Louis Comfort Tiffany's death in 1933, per his request, Tiffany glass continued to be available until the early 1950s from the Tiffany glass shop in New York. The Madonna Window is the only one in Trinity Church from
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The third type of American glass in Trinity Church shows Christian symbols set against colored glass backgrounds. The Geometrical Window in the west aisle, the only surviving window designed by the prestigious New York firm of Sharp and Steele, exemplifies this period of stained glass decoration.
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Wippell, which later opened offices in New Jersey as Wippell-Mowbray, designed nine windows for Trinity Church between 1948 and 1970. Their style emulates English Gothic windows. The colors of the glass are bright, mainly primary colors. They are: the Communion and Missionary Windows in the west
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