Visits to see glass in two churches

Well, i have tried to see the inside of Amasa Stone Chapel on Case Western's campus before. To-day, the door opened. Karen was in the building and allowed me in. Case has two late Victorian Gothic style churches on campus. One the music department uses, and the other has student uses, and weddings. There are no religious services. The Stone Chapel has much clear beautiful leaded windows, and this huge multi-scene five lintel window. 

In the Catholic churches in Cleveland such windows are rare, and i can not think of one to compare. This is a beautiful window, but hard to take gather all in at once. Starting at the bottom row, there are three stories. The two on the left are the Resurrection scene, on Easter, of Mary Magdalene seeing the risen Jesus. The next panel is an allegory of Faith, Hope, and Charity. The two on the right are the angel Gabriel hailing Mary at the Annunciation. The next horizontal layer is that of four men with Biblical quotations. The central section is the  crucifixions on Calvary. The top section has tracery, and angels with banners, and the instruments of crucifixion.

This is a Kempe window. Ah, but which one? Charles Eamer Kempe (*1837- 1907☨) had important commissions throughout England, and his studio continued till the Great Depression. Marjorie Boyce Kemp (*1886-1975☨) was a Scottish window maker. This chapel was begun in 1909, so this great window probably came from the English studio. Amasa Stone was a Presbyterian, and railroad tycoon, his two daughters had the church built in his memory.

This is a very crowded crucifixion. Jesus, Dismas, and Gestas are being executed in front of a large and very well dressed Roman crowd. SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus, The Roman Senate and People) is clearly seen on three banners, and one staff.

I want to see all the interesting and important stained glass in the area. For Cleveland, and the county, the last two churches i thought/knew of were the two i saw to-day.  The second one i entered was Fairmount Presbyterian, Cleveland Heights.

Sometimes there is a maker's mark on one window of a set. I found it on the first window i looked at, it was the last window in the set. All the scenes were from the New Testament. Only one was from the Acts of the Apostles. Saul (later Paul) is blinded and thrown off his horse (not mentioned in the account), and falls to the ground on the road to Damascus. In the bottom right, it reads Joep Nicolas 1941 Rambusch NYC. He was the third generation, of now five, Dutch glass artists. He refused to exhibit for Göring, and left Holland and Europe. From 1939 to 1958 he lived in America, and made windows for twenty-two churches. The windows he made for this church were in Life magazine. They were his first commission in America.