TONY BANFIELD'S FLORIDA STAINED GLASS
UK STAINED GLASS NEWS (2004)
Doing some pre-holiday Google research about Stained Glass in Florida,
(where we just spent 2 delighful November weeks), I found a single but
stunning image of a church in the small community of Key Largo (on the
Keys) where we had a townhouse rented.
When I went to the Key Largo tourist office to ask where their superb
resource was, the woman had no idea and tried to point me towards the
local "craft shoppes" as she obviously had no idea of her community's
treasure-trove. I asked where the largest church was, and was glumly pointed
to a building about 300yards down Highway One.
This church (called St Justin Martyr at Key Largo, Florida) and the superb
Charles Morse Museum in Winter Park,near Orlando (arguably the largest
single collection of Tiffany windows in any one place anywhere)..were
the SG highlights of a great and varied holiday.
Strange that the two best churches I've seen on my recent hols (remember
the priest's one in Siena?) have both been in the rather rarer dalle-de-verre
method...maybe it's the rarity and the difficulty of doing it (compared
to leaded work) that makes it so outstanding. Pity the iconography is
so mundane (I'm not religious, so only see it as artwork).
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