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Wayfarers Chapel, or "The Glass Church" is a disassembled chapel designed by Lloyd Wright that was located in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The chapel had unique organic architecture sited on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean .
The 10,000 rectangular panes of glass on the building were reflective on the outside and transparent on the inside. They were attached to the framework with a silicone-based glue to mitigate earthquake damage. No crystal glass was used in its construction. The building featured 52-bell carillon. It also had an underground chapel with a ...
The damage includes a long crack in the 1949 cornerstone, a buckling asphalt parking lot and fractured 15-foot- (4.6-meter-) tall glass panels, as well as torqued metal framing in the chapel's ...
The chapel was designed by the son, known as Lloyd Wright, who also worked on the Hollywood Bowl in 1927. “The Glass Church” and its grounds opened to the public in 1951 and epitomizes “organic architecture” that seeks to put buildings in harmony with the nature around them.
Of the 27 art glass windows that grace St. Peter's Chapel, 25 are from Tiffany Studios in New York (16 of them signed) and most designed by Frederick Wilson. Thus, St. Peter's Chapel has one of the largest collection of Tiffany windows in situ under one roof. [4] Two Tiffany windows deserve special note.
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The original stained glass was shipped from France, Germany, the British Isles and the U.S. [8] It was renovated by the Paul Phillips Studio in 1959. [8] It depicts the following saints: (Along the nave, from the rear to the altar on the right): John the Evangelist, Saint Patrick, Saint Joseph, Paul the Apostle, Madonna and Child, and Good ...