OUR STAINED GLASS WINDOWS
Adorning the interior of Trinity Episcopal Church’s Nave are seventeen stained glass windows that are of the dalle de verre style, a French phase meaning “slab of glass.”The technique, featuring faceted chunk-glass set in concrete, emerged in the 1930s. The use of thicker glass produces deeper color effects, especially when illuminated by bright natural or artificial light. The technique achieved prominence in the stained-glass literature of the 1950s and 1960s.
Trinity’s dalle de verre windows were donated to the church in the 1960s in memory or honor of loved ones. Designed by the French artist Pierre Millous of Chartres, France, the windows were installed by the George L. Payne Studio of Paterson, New Jersey. These two studios cooperated on numerous projects in the United States but have since closed.
The nine windows on the west side of the nave tell stories about events and people of the Old Testament, while the eight windows on the east side draw on the same from the New Testament. To view the windows chronologically, begin with the “Creation” window nearest the side door on the west side of the church. Then turn around and move directly across the nave to the “Incarnation” window on the east side of the church.
Kevin Portz, 2026
THE WEST SIDE
OLD TESTAMENT
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