Corpus
Christi RC Church - Table of Contents
Wheel
and Clearstory
Windows
Corpus
Christi RC Church
189 Clark Street, Buffalo, NY 14212
Corpus
Christi
- Official Website (online June
2022)
Listed on the National
Register
of Historic Places
Research by Gregory
Witul
All stained glass windows in Corpus Christi Church are by Mayer of Munich
Wheel Window
In July 1969, the exterior of the entire wheel window was repaired and cemented, and a protective clear plastic-glass shield was used to cover every section of it.The subject matter of choir loft windows typically involves music. Here, the central figure is St. Cecilia playing an organ. (St. Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians and church music because she praised God, singing to him, as she lay dying a martyr's death.) She is surrounded by angels playing various instruments.
The architectural style of Corpus Christi is Romanesque Revival which often incorporates large stained glass windows, including wheel or rose windows, sometimes setting the wheel or rose window window into a tier of vertical lights of staggered height. Large stained glass windows were a development of Gothic architecture which followed Romanesque style.
Clearstory Window
The clearstory window shown below is only one of the ten clearstory windows (2-panels united by a circular panel above) that are in the church.