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Window # 1
"The Children's Window"
Above the High Altar and ornately carved wood reredos, we see one of
the "glories" of Trinity Church - what is often called "The
Children's Window." The pot-metal glass window hails from Cox Sons
Buckley Company in London, England. It is a perfect theme for
Trinity Church, depicting worship in heaven from the Book of
Revelation. The wooden tracery is geometric design (with all the
geometric patterns); geometric- style tracery goes back to the late
13th and early 14th century. Three panels of glass show the Holy
Trinity in the middle panel, flanked by worshiping angels on either
side. In the middle panel we see Christ holding an orb, the Dove
symbolizing the Holy Spirit (above Him) and the Star of David, (two
interwoven triangles) above, symbolizing God the Father. The window
is often called "The Children's Window" because the children of the
Sunday School collected their pennies (typical offering for a Sunday
School child in the late 19th century) to purchase a window in
memory of their classmates who had died. Because it is the
Children's Window it was appropriate to show the childhood of Our
Lord with the round medallions at the bottom showing the
Annunciation, the Presentation in the Temple, and to our far right,
a scene from the Old Testament where an angel holds a child
(referring to guardian angels) and the Shunamite woman whose child
was revived by the prophet Elisha. A band of yellow above the three
medallion reads "Their angels do always behold the face of my Father
which is in heaven" from Matthew':18 which refers to guardian
angels.
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