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TONY BANFIELDS HOLIDAY STAINED GLASS

This web page features pictures of stained glass found Tony Banfield while out and abroad.

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TONY BANFIELD IN PARIS:

Tony Banfield, on holiday (again!), writes to say "In late May 2004, we got 2 "free" Airmiles round-trips to Paris....we flew in with Air France to Terminal (sic) 2F, part of which collapsed 19 hours later, killing 5 other unluckier tourists.....

The city doesn't have (probably never DID) a great deal of SG in situ in houses, bars, restaurants etc, so , apart from churches, most of the glass we saw was from our various trips around the many great museums and galleries in what's still my favourite European city. (Click here and follow Paris May 2004 to see our photos).

Paris is STILL an amazingly inexpensive "art-lovers-holiday"......"Carte de Musee" gives free entry to all the major galleries and museums for only £24 for 3 days, the "Carte Orange" costs a stunningly cheap 14.50 Euros ((£10) for unlimited Metro/subway, bus, RER and funicular rides for a whole WEEK!!!!.....an average clean 2-star hotel is about £40 per ROOM (not p.p.) and the food is so plentiful that competition keeps it quite cheap indeed."

Tony Banfield in Florida, November 2003:

Doing some pre-holiday Google research about Stained Glass in Florida, (where we just spent 2 delighful November weeks), I found a single but stunning image of a church in the small community of Key Largo (on the Keys) where we had a townhouse rented.

When I went to the Key Largo tourist office to ask where their superb resource was, the woman had no idea and tried to point me towards the local "craft shoppes" as she obviously had no idea of her community's treasure-trove. I asked where the largest church was, and was glumly pointed to a building about 300yards down Highway One.

This church (called St Justin Martyr at Key Largo, Florida) and the superb Charles Morse Museum in Winter Park,near Orlando (arguably the largest single collection of Tiffany windows in any one place anywhere)..were the SG highlights of a great and varied holiday.

Strange that the two best churches I've seen on my recent hols (remember the priest's one in Siena?) have both been in the rather rarer dalle-de-verre method...maybe it's the rarity and the difficulty of doing it (compared to leaded work) that makes it so outstanding. Pity the iconography is so mundane (I'm not religious, so only see it as artwork).

To see all of this church: see the album "Florida" at www.picturetrail.com/tonybanfield.

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