[Magdalen] St. Martins and nearby in Houston / was -Re: Funeral Service at Saint Martin's, Houston.

[cantor03 at aol.com]

The oft mentioned model is Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Church in
Marburg, Germany, just a few miles north of my US Army duty 
station in Frankfurt/M.   That church is one of the few in
Germany to preserve, sadly without statues, the medieval
rood screen.  The small town of Marburg is chock full of
half-timbered 500 - 600 year old buildings, and is fun to
explore.
 
The stained glass was the largest single order from one of
the few remaining ateliers for traditional glass, (Willet/Hauser).
I think the largest one time stained glass installation overall is
probably the glass of Duke University Chapel, Durham, NC USA
That installation was via a different, now defunct maker.  
 
In a message dated 4/21/2018 5:27:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, houstonklr at gmail.com writes:

 
St. Martin's building that today's service was held in dates to about 
2003/4. It was based cathedrals from Germany and France. Several years after 
it was finished it installed all of the stained glass at one time - the 
largest order of stained glass ever, an article in the Houston Chronicle 
said and the price (which I can't remember exactly) seemed over the top. It 
replaced a building dating from the '50s, as it was founded in 1952,