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Chapel Completion Photo Gallery

Photos taken during construction between 2006 and 2008

The last service in the old building: The Gospel

Pinning names, events, special memories on the old Dossal Curtain

Mary Hallett helping out

All of the slips of paper with special names, events and memories were mixed into the concrete and poured into the new walls.

A colorful Dossal!

Joseph Smith during the Service.

Our new home in Canterbury House.

What was supposed to be one year in "exile" turned into two, testing our patience and commitment.

The temporary worship space.

The loan of a small pipe organ from Keith Williams was perfect for the intimate space.

"Light Catchers" made from the original Chapel glass helped remind us of "home."

The old Chancel and Sacristy stripped of its asbestos shingles.

The Ambulatory just before demolition.

The contractors nearly surgically removed the old temporary portion from the permanent.

The "lean-to" is gone!

A weathertight construction wall separates the permanent building from the elements while the new addition is being constructed,

Inside the permanent portion of the building.

The construction wall from inside.

The organ amid the scaffolding, covered in plastic.

First excavation for the new mechanical room was undertaken, then concrete flooring and footings were poured.

The shape of the Nave extensioin and the new Chancel become apparent as the steel skeleton is erected.

Concrete pouring forms are erected around the steel, and the walls are poured.

Pouring concrete at top of the building.

Forms for the Nave and Chancel walls.

You can see the new roofing trusses through the window openings.

Nave and Chancel window openings.

Pouring at the top of the building.

The concrete walls are done and await their Limestone veneer.

Daily visitor to the site, young adult Alaric Schaufele was given a "Golden Shovel" award by English Brothers' Contractors.

Once the new building's roof was on, window frames were covered in plastic, and the construction wall was taken down.

Interior scaffolding for applying the stone tracery to the window openings.

The organ just prior to cleaning.

The architectural sample of stone cladding over concrete block walls.

The Sacristy takes shape.

The Choir Vestry takes shape.

The Chancel takes shape.

The stained glass windows were made by local artisans at Glass-FX. Here we see Judy cementing glass into the lead caming.

Cutting patters for a clerestory window.

"Smokey Green" and Violet glass.

Making the center piece of the Rose Window. The center rondel is a piece of dark blue glass from Washington National Cathedral.

Rose Window in Glass FX's studio. The windows were all made under the direction of Richard Taylor, owner of Glass FX.

Windows are installed while interior finishing continues.

One of the two great windows in the Clerestory.

The stone tracery in the Clerestor windows matches the original 1927 building exactly.

Ambulatory and Vestry windows.

The Rose Window.

The West elevation.

The East elevation.

The South elevation through the trees on Armory Street.

The South elevation showing the new landscaping.

The North elevation.

The Chancel.

Chapel Completion Photo Gallery

Looking down the Nave.

This is one happy Tim Hallett!

Photographs by Tim Hallett, Bob Delvin, and John-Paul Buzard