Stained Glass banner image

Featured Window

Window of the Month
Our Lady of Grace, Dearborn Heights, Michigan

Click any image to enlarge.




Window

Building Name: Grace Episcopal Church

Studio Name: Wippell, (J.) & Co., Ltd.

City: Port Huron

Window Shape: 5 (gothic arched, 2 vertical sections)

Date of Window: 1910

Subject/Title of Window: Hiram the Artificer

Brief Description of Subject: These windows also represent rarely seen subjects: "Hiram the Artificer" and "St. Martin, Christian Knight and Martyr." Hiram is described in the Book of I Kings, Ch. 7:13-14, as a skillful metal worker from Tyre, who was brought to Jerusalem by King Solomon to do brass work for his Temple. "Now Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. He was a son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a bronze worker. He had skill in working will all kinds of bronze. So he came to King Solomn and did all his work."

Inscriptions: Hiram the Artificer
I Kings VII:13-14


Condition of Window: Good

Height: 57"

Width: 58"

Hiram the Artificer
Hiram the Artificer
Hiram the Artificer/St. Martin, Christian Knight and Martyr
Hiram the Artificer/St. Martin, Christian Knight and Martyr

The MSGC is a constantly evolving database. Not all the data that has been collected by volunteers has been sorted and entered. Not every building has been completely documented.

All images in the Index are either born-digital photographs of windows or buildings or are scans of slides, prints, or other published sources. These images have been provided by volunteers and the quality of the material varies widely.

If you have any questions, additions or corrections, or think you can provide better images and are willing to share them, please contact donald20@msu.edu