GALLERY of STAINED GLASS ART
ROBERT FERTITTA, photographer and curator
Feature I
St. John Episcopal Church, Waterbury, CT
The Rose Window is on the rear wall of the church and faces to the east. The center section contains four small triangular windows surrounded by twelve large radiating windows bordered by twelve more triangles. The outer section contains twelve trefoil motifs decorated with stars and fleur-de-lis alternating with twelve circular motifs containing the Star of David. Some of the pipes of the three-manual McManis organ obscure parts of the lower left and right corners of the window. Rather than removing the pipes, the problem was solved using the magic powers of Photoshop.
The Four Evangelists are depicted in pairs high above the altar: Sts. Matthew and Mark on the left, Sts. Luke and John on the right. These Gothic style windows are stained and enameled. They face inward and are diagonally oriented.
'Presentation of the Christ Child in the Temple'
This is one of the church's five Tiffany windows. Each half is 62" high by 17" wide. The Tiffany windows, as well as the windows of identical size and shape further down this page, are at floor level. They are situated on the side walls, under the ambulatory.
Two Tiffany windows: on the left, "Heavenly Choir", depicting four angelic musicians and on the right, "Sir Galahad and the Holy Grail", in which Sir Galahad and an angel stand facing each other in a floral landscape.
The Gothic structure was completed in 1873. The stained glass window, by Henry Sharp, depicts an angel descending from heaven, holding a halo, and preparing to rise again with a deceased child. The window is over nine feet high and located in the ambulatory.
Two windows by Henry Sharp: left, 'Ye Clothed Me' and 'Ye Gave Me Drink', and right, 'Ye Gave Me to Eat' and 'Ye Visited Me'.
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Above: Tiffany window, 'Christ Preaching to the Apostle'. Left: 'Mary Magdalene Visiting the Tomb' (Sharp). Below: the center section of the Rose Window.
Left: 'King David on His Throne' (Sharp). Below: 'Heavenly Choir Praising God' (Tiffany).
Left: 'The Good Samaritan'. Below: Untitled, depicting a mother seated at a tombstone being comforted by her daughter on the left, and a resurrected woman and two kneeling mourners on the right. (Sharp)
Left: 'Christ on the Road to Calvary', with St. John the Evangelist writing his gospel. Below: 'Christ and St. John the Divine' with symbols from the Book of Revelation. (Sharp)
Left: 'Daniel and Joshua'. Below: 'Story of the Prodigal Son''. (Sharp)
