Chapel/Columbarium/Crematorium - Table of Contents ..............Forest Lawn Cemetery - Table of Contents

Chapel interior - Forest Lawn Cemetery

Built:

1882

Style:

Gothic Revival

Chapel architect:

Joseph Earnshaw, an engineer from Cincinnati who laid out Forest Lawn Cemetery

Architect, columbarium and crematorium:

Edward B. Green

The chapel contains a Wurlitzer pipe organ made in North Tonawanda.


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Gothic Revival arches

Glass bead organ pipe screen

Glass bead organ pipe screen

Wainscot chair

Transept

Gothic Revival pendant light fixture

Wheel window

Detail - Wheel window

 

Trefoils ..... Lattice windows

 

Oak pews

Corbels

Nave stained glass window

Detail - Nave stained glass window

Peacock detail - Nave stained glass window

 

 

Entrance

Trefoil tracery


Special thanks to Forest Lawn Interpretive Program Director Sandra Starks for her cooperation
Photos taken February 14, 2009
Photos and their arrangement © 2009
Chuck LaChiusa
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