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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.