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Two Completely Restored Tiffany Windows Return to Their Home

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One of my temporary posters used while the windows were away being restored
One of my temporary posters used while the windows were away being restored
Both windows back in place
Amazingly brilliant detail of one window! And to think that every piece of glass was in a box at one time after it left Branford and before it was returned to us!
Amazingly brilliant detail of one window! And to think that every piece of glass was in a box at one time after it left Branford and before it was returned to us!

Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green, Branford, CT, June 30, 2015

Our restored Tiffany windows are back!

In early November last year workers from Hampden, MA-based Stained Glass Resurces, Inc. removed two of our old windows that needed serious repair. The windows came back this week and were placed in their proper locations.  We are now preparing ourselves to see the windows “with sunglasses on” due to their fresh clarity and brilliance. At some point in the future I will write a blog documenting the removal, intricate rebuilding of each window in Massachusetts and the re-installation yesterday.

But for now, please enjoy these images, and as soon as you can, come to Trinity and see them looking as lovely as they did when they were made by the Tiffany Studio a long time ago!

 

Peter

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One of my temporary posters used while the windows were away being restored
One of my temporary posters used while the windows were away being restored
Carefully saving the posters
Carefully saving the posters
Old exterior plexiglass- saved to cut new ventilation glass to proper size
Old exterior plexiglass- saved to cut new ventilation glass to proper size

Window #1- transported safely with window #2 resting behind it
Window #1- transported safely with window #2 resting behind it
Stained Glass Restoration, Inc. truck
Stained Glass Restoration, Inc. truck
Scraping and cleaning before inserting the first window
Scraping and cleaning before inserting the first window

Here comes our first window after 8 months of total diassembling and rebuilding
Here comes our first window after 8 months of total diassembling and rebuilding
Carefully moving the 400 ish pound window into a vertical position
Carefully moving the 400 ish pound window into a vertical position
Our first picture of the window and its fresh colors!
Our first picture of the window and its fresh colors!

Almost in place
Almost in place
Sealed on the inside- awaiting the exterior ventilation
Sealed on the inside- awaiting the exterior ventilation
Here comes window #2
Here comes window #2

These windows have as many as 5 (!) layers of glass
These windows have as many as 5 (!) layers of glass
Exterior image, showing a few very subtle reinforcing bars to keep the window from bulging and bowing in the future
Exterior image, showing a few very subtle reinforcing bars to keep the window from bulging and bowing in the future
Amazingly brilliant detail of one window! And to think that every piece of glass was in a box at one time after it left Branford and before it was returned to us!
Amazingly brilliant detail of one window! And to think that every piece of glass was in a box at one time after it left Branford and before it was returned to us!

Both windows back in place
Exterior image
Exterior image
Exterior image
Exterior image

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