80th Entry Stained Glass Window

The end wall of St Georges's church is rapidly filling up compared with our visit to measure up our space over a year ago. Our slot is just to the right and above the door area. You can just about see the contractor cutting out the old glass panel.

The weather outside was dreadful with pouring rain, making a good photo difficult due to the poor light conditions. The mottled finish shown on all the window glass must be some effect of the light or the trees outside, as it doesn't show when viewed by eye.

A good view of about half of the entry windows with ours at centre below the light.

A good closeup of the leaded glass technique. The lettering and emblems are ground deeply into the glass before painting, making them show up well to the eye from all angles. The circles are made by etching the surface colour from multi layers of glass to show the underlying colours and, with the laminated glass cladding, making a really hefty inch thick window.

The mucky looking areas on the glass have been caused by the gloomy light and my crude attempts at lightening up the picture.

A surprising (to me) number of the other window panels are really glass paintings but I thought that a traditional long lasting leaded glass technique was preferable. Ours will still look the same after we are all gone and the painted glass windows are all faded. I hope that you believe that your donations were well spent.

The Burmese window was funded by contributions from ex Burmese Air Force apprentices living in Western Australia and our very own Gordon Eadon.

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