twice a year, or once every ten years for one of life’s trinity of events: births, deaths, and marriages, while there we’re struck by the soaring arches, intricate stonework, and, on a sunny day, the spiritual beauty and colorful rainbows of light that stream throughstained glass ...
Stained glass window light paints the south chancel aisle near the steps to St. Cuthbert’s tomb. The Sorrowful Mother, part of Fenwick Lawson’sPieta(1974-1981), in the east end of Durham Cathedral. When the beech wood sculpture was on loan to York Minster in the 1980s, a fire in th...
The study of the social patterns in certain so-called primitive cultures, however, seems to have made it sufficiently evident that such a defeatist view is wholly unwarranted. — Albert Einstein From a response to a greeting sent by the Liberal Ministers' Club of New York City, published in ...
we saw a representative sample of the many thousands whose labor, skill and love have brought the cathedral back to life: architects, engineers, artisans, restoration experts, carpenters, stone-workers, stained glass artists, roofers
Stained glass window light paints the south chancel aisle near the steps to St. Cuthbert’s tomb. The Sorrowful Mother, part of Fenwick Lawson’sPieta(1974-1981), in the east end of Durham Cathedral. When the beech wood sculpture was on loan to York Minster in the 1980s, a fire in th...
Stained glass - Biblical, Religious, Art: In the Middle Ages ecclesiastical art was primarily didactic. The subjects painted in the windows played an important part in the expounding of the Scriptures and the glorification of the church and its saints.