MEMORIAL WINDOWS AND LEAD LIGHTS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12683, 22 December 1906, Page 11

MEMORIAL WINDOWS AND LEAD LIGHTS.

II' -IBSSBfi SMITH AND SMITH'S LTD. | ■ EXHIBITS. |; ti Almost oppose tho entrance to the »,iArt Gallery i-Htha rear "Promenade |'at the E-hibttJon Meaafa Smith and IJBtnith Ltd.. of Tuam Street. Chriat|.elmrch, Wellington and Dunedin, havo JV'I very fine show of "memorial" and K'"Awncirtic'' stained glare windows. Rw The window that will, perhape, atliwaefc tho moat attention is one that |;*Al.manufactured hy this firm for the I Cpngregotional Church at Port Chal--1^ tears as a memorial to th« late Mr I Morjran of that place. I''__|Tlie. etibject of the de-iffn is the I'WeWatl Bliopherd—a beautifully-drawn £ A|ttr« bearing a lamb in one arm ami f-gwding a crook in the other, while ai I; His? feect is the ewe-mother. The col- }; «uts uaed aro beautifully rich, and .vel r, ari» all in admirable keeping with tne* " study. Quite a remarkable featuro is f-tha good flesh-tint the artiat haa 6e- % cured. while the shading of colours, od|'"t*ined by using glass sections of varyV ,n lS,thickness, introduoee aomo finished '' semi-tono effects. V ' The canopy nnd side panels, which f, lank the subject proper, are richly arF chitectural, and are picked out in coU | ours and tinta, with proper diserimina- | tion. The window measures 7 feet jiy '»•» feet, and its cost was only £.'.«». ji «mith and Smith aVer that they are jVetMo to turn ont aa good work for ; -*3 10s per squnre foot as can ho imJ ported from the Old World nt double f the price, which i« a fact architects and f church authorities might profit by not- . It in not generally known that tlie Waking of stained not the mere dttijtiung an <i cutting anil mounline: hut the art of painting an<J fireing the glaaa to'tho colonr and design required ia carrieil on by Messrs Smith _and Nnjjth Ltd. Ht t-ieir three catabfishs ments. ami their liandeomo windows \ *rp all of the firm's own, manufacture. |; and designed hv their artist. Mr | l&mert, Freaser, who also d-rsigued and I erected the very handsome and artisI tic window- in St. Stephen** Church. I Aahburton, to the memory of the late ft Mr Harrison, tho '-Dr. Stuart Memorial I Window," in Knox Clmrch, Dunedin, I the "Gotirlav" and "Stevenson - ' memf orial windows in St. Mathew'a Church. I Dunedin. ami a numlier of other inem- | "rial and chancel windows throiißoont ?:■ the colon v. j?V The firm hns also a very fine domes. Ws- tie winrlow on show, which ia well ■Ij'Worth recognition by the public. ■ffc Stainftd glass windows of the domes■?tio kind are now extensively used in ■Rthe principal public buildings, and up-Beijte-date private reaidetw*. ■$.■ The effects from tho beautifully soft, ■prtiatio blending of the various colours Bfflre rary pronounced and architects and Bfjluildem anould give this portion of toe

oxhihit their clostvst attention for it allows tho high class of work that can ho cirrird out in this city. Moears .Smith an<| .Smith, Ltd., will he pleased to supply ilt<Bi<4u.s and prices for all clasM-M ol tviudows at any of their depots in tho colony.