Ascension Window for an Episcopal Church
In the summer of 2005, the stained glass window committee made its report to the vestry, stating that "the full committee agreed that additional glass for the main church was acceptable, desirable, and exciting to imaging." A full survey of the existing four windows in the stone church was submitted along with frame drawings and calculations for the remaining twenty-seven windows, totaling almost one thousand sq. ft.
Enthusiasm waned over the next two years however, as the vestry and a local architectural firm searched for an artist capable of designing windows in the style of Charles Eamer Kempe (1837-1907) who had created the original stained glass. Invitations to submit design proposals were sent to major studios in the United States and Kempe's native Britain with disappointing results.
The project was on hold In the summer of 2007 when Dixon Studio contacted the vestry and persuaded the skeptical architect to look at one more artist's proposal. The Ascension window, designed by Ronald Neill Dixon, was received with surprise and renewed enthusiasm for the project, which is once again active and now in its fundraising stage.
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