I recently ducked into Trinity Church to take a look at the Edward Burne-Jones stained glass windows that were commissioned from Morris & Co. in 1882. Trinity Church is a Boston landmark, the building that established Henry Hobson Richardson as one of the leading architects of his day. Indeed, the style of this building, characterized by polychromatic rough stone, heavy arches, towers, and clay roof became known as Richardsonian Romanesque and was a uniquely American architectural style.
The late afternoon sun was shining directly on the main altar setting all the gold paint aglow. Murals covering over 21,000 square feet (about 2,000 m²) of the interior were painted by John La Farge, an artist and worker of stained glass whose reputation was also established as a result of this commission.
Four Burne-Jones windows were installed, three of which (showing scenes from the Nativity) were very high up and hard to photograph. Here's one....
The most beautiful window depicts "David's Charge to Solomon" and is on the first floor. The window is on the east wall so it would be better viewed in the morning.
So lovely....
Le Farge's murals....the truth shall make you free....
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