Before we get into the windows we have done I want to discuss Church windows in general.    You need to have someone who knows stained glass check out the windows in your church,  if you don't know anyone to do this, you can find someone under Glass - Stained and Leaded in the phone book.  There are so many windows that are on the way to falling apart that we see just in our travels, if they are buckling they are going keep on getting worse.  The sheer weight of the glass and leading is pushing  down and making it buckle, and nothing will fix this except restoration, they can't just be pushed back into shape.    If you can move the window in and out if you push on it gently they need attention, if they are solid when you push gently they should be fine.  One other thing that is very important is having Lexan over them on the outside.  If you don't have it you can get it from your local glass store, it comes in huge sheets and it is something that can be installed by the people in your church, it can be cut with a saber saw in any shape that you need.  There has been more damage done to the stained glass this past century due to the acid rain, smoke, etc. than was done in all of the time since the 1400's when some of the first windows were installed.  When we reconstruct windows we see this damage, a lot of it can be taken care of in the restoration process, when the windows are done and installed there is a very big difference in the colors.   Please take care of your precious windows so they can be enjoyed by generations to come.

Below are some of the church windows we have made or restored.  A lot of the time we repair some windows and never take photos of them and never seem to get back to take them later, so this is a partial list of our work on the churches.

Presbyterian Church, Cochranton, PA

The two church windows below are in the Presbyterian Church here in Cochranton.  I didn't get to design the windows, they had a graphic artist in the church that did that.  But the idea of using the two church buildings was mine, the two buildings were formerly the United Presbyterian and Presbyterian churches when they joined.  The White one was sold and the brick one torn down and a new building built.  I thought it would be nice if we used the churches in the windows.  One nice thing about the window shown here in the background is that we got to dedicate it to honor my parents, Glen and Marion Hamilton who taught Sunday School there for years.  The window with the white church was dedicated by the Anderson Family in memory of their mother. 

United Methodist Church, Jamestown, PA 

The window shown below is a restoration of a large three panel window in the United Methodist Church in Jamestown, Pa.  The children of the church gathered pennies to help pay for the restoration.   As they get the money to pay for a window they have another one done.  This is a good way for a small church with not a lot of money to get the restoration done.  We start with the window that is in the worst condition and work down.

                Showing Cracks Before                                             Cleaning the Storms

               Final Cleaning                                     One More Nail, They're In                        

Jerry is working on another window from this church and I have some smaller windows for a church in Port Alleghany, PA, no pictures yet, but will have some soon.

St. John's Community Church, Meadville, PA

                              This is the bottom of the front window , they had done some remodeling and had the floor for a new second floor going right through the center of these beautiful medallions.  We lowered them so they could be seen from inside the church.

These two windows are in the actual sanctuary of the church, in 1924 there was a tornado that took out part of the church,  the one above on the left is one of the newer ones to replace the ones that were ruined.  The one on the right is one of the original ones,  don't know why they didn't  make them the same, but the colors are totally different, but the patterns the same.  

Watson Run United Church of Christ, Meadville, PA

A View of the Church from Brown Hill Road

These windows are from left to right two windows in the altar section of the church showing the Aplha and Omega, the one on the right is one of three windows in the foyer.

The window on the left is one of six windows on the sides of the sanctuary.  The one on the right is the big window in the back of the sanctuary  that faces the road, some of the most beautiful glass we have seen.

     This is the bearded one installing the big window in the back of the church,  it was falling apart and someone had replaced a part of a red border with purple glass, I guess we weren't supposed to notice that.  These three pictures were part of a newspaper article done on Bauer and Bauer Stained Glass Studio. 

The window almost in.  .  This is a little church out in the country and it has some of the most beautiful windows around. The glass in the center of this window is actually pale blue and green glass (stained glass is hard to photograph), but when the sun shines through it there is cream and pink in the glass, and when it is night and the lights are on it turns gold, like a lot of the old glass. 

First Baptist Church, Reynoldsville, PA 

This was the latest restoration project we just finished, there are twelve windows in the church that were  restored.  I find it interesting that even though the pattern is the same throughout the church, different color combinations make each window different. 

This picture is one of the center windows shown above show the damage to the windows as a result of 100 years of service to the church.   The leading is very bad.  The panels should be flat. 

The windows shown below aren't churches, but are some restorations we have done for other buildings.

These are pictures of pictures of windows in apartment houses in New York City.  We restored or made new windows for 14 apartment house lobbies in "the city" over several years.  We're not going to go back and photograph them bit we  wanted to show some of them.  We also had to go back and repair some of them again, furniture seemed to go through them quite often, and also body parts, and we had to replace a whole lobby after someone stole all of the windows we had just done the year before.  Someone came in and  said that they were going to repair them and the super let them take them, and they never brought them back.  

This isn't a church window but is a restoration.  It is out of an old Victorian home in Franklin, Pa.  It is done in "zipper" bevels and jewels as the focal points.  Unfortunately it was originally on an outside wall and a room was added so it is backed with a closet, they do light it, but the total effect is lost without the sun on the bevels.