St. John's-Grace Episcopal Church - Table of Contents
J. Gordon Guthrie - Chancel
High Altar window and Chapel window
St. John's-Grace Episcopal Church
51 Colonial
Circle at Bidwell Pkwy. and Lafayette Ave.
Buffalo, New York
St.
John's-Grace
Church - Official Website
Artist and Fabricator: |
J. Gordon Guthrie |
Style: |
Gothic Revival |
Captions source: |
Rev. Peter Bridgford, "St. John's Grace Episcopal Church: A Guide to Some of the Memorials," 2000 |
On this page below:
The two stained glass windows pictured on this page are two of the three windows designed by J. Gordon Guthrie for the opening of this church in 1927.
Chancel High Altar window
Chancel
The East window over the High Altar, an original artwork of the 1927 building, was dedicated in memory of the parents of Charles and Florence Chandler.
The three vertical panels on each side of the central column are unidentified incidents in the life of Jesus as found in John's Gospel.
East window over the High Altar ... Details below, from top left to bottom right:
East window
Apostles? / Christ / St. Peter
Ship
Apostles?
Christ with mandorla
St. Peter
St. Philip
Fish
St. Matthew
Mary, mother of Jesus, and John at the foot of the Cross
John 15:27: "... because ye have been with me."
Chalice, symbol of St. John ... Note artist's signature at lower left, detailed below:
Artist's signature
Chapel window: Saints Peter & John
Saints Peter and St. John: The six windows of the Apostles in our Chapel took 56 years to be completed. The window of St. Peter and St. John, which is located at the front pew of the Chapel, was designed by Gordon Guthrie and dedicated in memory of William G. and Catherine Birch Staniland when the church was consecrated in 1927. The design of this window was approved by the architects of Goodhue Associates, who supervised the building of the church after Mr. Goodhue's death.
The Peter-John window exemplifies the architects' intent that the twelve apostles would be life-size figures and designed in a Medieval Gothic style by which the figures dominate the windows.
Accompanying each apostle is a small panel below the figure which tells a related story of the apostle. In this window, John and Peter are in the Sepulcher discovering "the linen clothes lying." (John 20:3-10)
The other five windows of Apostles were produced by J. & R. Lamb Studios during a period from about 1967-19.
Saints Peter and John window at right ... The other four windows in the illustration are Apostles windows by Margreta Overbeck for Lamb Studios
Saints Peter and John window ... Details below:
St. Peter
John 20:6: "... then cometh Simon Peter following him..."
St. John
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St. John ... John and Peter are in the Sepulcher discovering "the linen clothes lying." (John 20:3-10)