As part of a comprehensive restoration of the Trinity College Chapel, its pictorial stained-glass windows were painstakingly disassembled, restored, and re-installed, during this Bicentennial year.
But the scaffolding on the Chapel interior that announced the work is coming down. The Stained Glass Resources company has completed the eight-month process.
The array of dark, 13th-century style glass in the tower, and lighter English 14th- and 15th-century style glass in the choir and sanctuary, again reveals faces known to the College and the nation.
Chapel architect Philip Frohman, who also designed the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., included both spiritual and historical themes in his design. In addition to Trinity leaders and symbols, the stained glass depicts biblical history and prominent visionaries such as transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau.
Nick Caito, staff photographer, and representatives at Stained Glass Resources Inc., documented the process of restoring the artwork.
Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby, Trinity College president at the time of Chapel construction, is portrayed with his wife, Lois Cunningham Ogilby, and their three children.
The Trinity Bantam is among the symbols with meaning in the stained glass.
Trinity College founder Bishop Thomas Church Brownell is portrayed in the stained glass.
President Abraham Lincoln is portrayed alongside a freed slave.
William G. Mather '77, the donor of the Trinity College chapel, is portrayed in stained glass alongside his wife, Elizabeth Ring Ireland Mather.
