First Parish Church stained glass windows
by Janice Drew
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First Parish Church stained glass windows
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Janice Drew
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"The fifth Pilgrim Meetinghouse was designed during a period when the Arts & Crafts Movement was flourishing in Boston. Inspired by the ideas of John Ruskin and William Morris, in addition to the 1888 exhibition held in London by the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, a group of Boston architects and craftsmen founded one of America’s earliest societies of Arts & Crafts in June 1897.
Designed in the Romanesque Revival style, the Meetinghouse’s 88’ high Norman-inspired tower and flanking faux buttresses symbolically reflect the type of church the Pilgrims would have been familiar with in England.
The Meetinghouse’s unique stained glass windows celebrate not only the Pilgrim epic, but also Pilgrim values which have become the core values of America. Many of these unique windows were designed by Edward Peck Sperry of Tiffany Studios and were gifts from Mayflower descendants and societies.
In 2014 the Meetinghouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior due to its historic importance and architectural significance. Like the previous four Pilgrim Meetinghouses, First Parish remains the centerpiece of Plymouth’s historic Town Square" - http://firstparishplymouth.org/about/our-history
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