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Example sentences for "stained glass"

  • The church, built in the Saxon style of architecture, contains some monuments and a few fragments of stained glass.

  • The church is extremely neat, and has in the south window six pieces of stained glass, illustrative of scriptural subjects.

  • Stained glass” differs from glass-painting in very many particulars.

  • The first process in producing a stained glass window is the making of the design, colored or otherwise.

  • In this manner of glass-painting--which is capable of none of the powerful and rich effects of color peculiar to stained glass--it will be understood that the process much resembles the practice of the picture painter.

  • Only think of a great arch seventy-five feet high, and over thirty feet broad, a glory of stained glass!

  • It also happens that the art of stained glass, though reaching to very high and great things, is in its methods and processes a simple, or at least a very limited, one.

  • The church has a quantity of stained glass of much beauty.

  • Its Transitional church has been much rebuilt, but still contains several items of interest, including a fine chancel arch and some old stained glass.

  • The chained book, a copy of Erasmus' Paraphrase, and also the fine, though modern, stained glass in the east and west windows is worthy of notice.

  • In ascending the opposite hill, on the right hand is Prospect-house, where the late Mr. Eginton carried on his manufactory of stained glass.

  • On one side the light is introduced through seven windows, and on the opposite side by one window of large dimensions, composed of stained glass.

  • Stained glass, glass colored or stained by certain metallic pigments fused into its substance, -- often used for making ornament windows.

  • A kind of stained glass, the colors of which are incorporated with the melted glass in the pot.

  • The cloister at Durham, or at least that part of it which was used as a library, was glazed; but whether with white glass or stained glass we are not informed.

  • The reason of this is identical with that which occurs in stained glass windows, viz.

  • Absolute opacity, to judge from the older specimens of stained glass, seems to have been considered inadmissible.

  • The chancel windows in the apse are well filled with stained glass, by Messrs.

  • The east window is of stained glass, illustrating the life of Christ.

  • Some of the windows have been filled with stained glass; the font and rose windows are from designs by Mr. E.

  • All the windows are filled with stained glass by Mr Kempe, and contain Choirs of Angels singing the Confessor's hymn, or Psalm cxii.

  • The chapter-house was decorated with frescoes and stained glass by Dean Heywood in the fifteenth century, as we know from the MSS.

  • In the cloisters are several curious statues, stained glass windows, and tesselated pavement.

  • In that of the fifteenth century are several noble tombs, and beautiful windows of stained glass.

  • And he had me here, in full daylight, with a figure just out of a stained glass window in St. Bartholomew's Church!

  • I said he must have come out of a stained glass window in St. Bartholomew's Church.

  • And pointing over his head: "Ye crucify me in stained glass!

  • There were dark vistas; and directly in front of me a gleaming altar, and high over it a stained glass window, with the afternoon sun shining through.

  • Possibly the stronger colours were supplied by the use of pieces of stained glass, as purchases were made of ruby, azure, and sapphire glass.


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