“Praying Hands” New Window-Willowdale Church at Sunnybrook Farm Museum Red Deer

Filed under Museum Church Windows by on March 14, 2025 at 5:30 pm {no comments}

This is the first of 4 new windows for the Willowdale Zion Presbyterian Church at the Sunnybrook Farm Museum in Red Deer Alberta. All of these windows measure some 26 inches wide by 57 inches high, cathedral shaped. This design was prompted by the donor of the window and through consultations with ourselves and Martha Hanson of Paned Expressions Studios in Edgewood Maryland, the pattern was created.

This window consisted of 182 pieces of stained glass, constructed with the copper foil method ( we use 7/32 Black Backed foil, with all lines hand soldered. We clean with Kwik Clean – use Novacan Black Patina – and polish with Kem-Pro Clarity polish.

It took us several weeks to compete and deliver for installation.

The following photo shows our work in progress on building this window.

Final design by Martha Hanson of Paned Expressions Studio

Willowdale Church Rainbow – Dove Windows – Sunnybrook Farm Museum 2023

Filed under Repairs, Restorations, Windows by on March 9, 2025 at 2:30 pm {no comments}

These are the last 2 of the original windows church windows. Unfortunately they needed some repairs with new glass in various areas.

 

This photo shows the condition of one of the above windows prior to restoration, which included replacing cracked glass, old frame removal along with cleaning, polishing and the addition of the new 3/4 inch Zinc border came.

Designer and Artist Unknown

Willowdale Church Alberta Rose Windows – Sunnybrook Farm Museum

Filed under Church Windows, Repairs, Restorations, Windows by on July 20, 2024 at 5:50 pm {one comment}

These 2 existing Alberta Rose windows that were in the Willowdale Church required lots of repairs with some new replacement glass, new 3/4 inch zinc frames, cleaning and polishing. They are now installed in the Willowdale Zion Presbyterian Church located at the Sunnybrook Farm Museum in Red Deer Alberta.

These windows measured approximately 26 inches wide by 57 inches high cathedral shaped. They were installed behind new double paned glass. The church after being moved some 50 ks from SE of Red Deer in September of 2021 required a lot of restorations and renovations.

Do to some medical issues we have been away from our studio for sometime, but after a hip replacement for Bob, we are slowly getting back to working in our studio.

 

The following 2 photos show the damage that we had to restore on one of the above windows

Designer and original artist unknown – restorations and repairs by Flory & Bob Wilkins

Sunnybrook Farm Museum – Willowdale Church Gladious Windows

Filed under Church Windows, Uncategorized, Windows by on February 19, 2024 at 5:30 pm {one comment}

We started the 6 originial church window restorations with the 2 Gladious Windows. After removing the old zinc frames they both needed much cleaning using Kwik Clean and then polished with Clarity along with new 3/4 inch zinc frames. It took some time with our came bender to get the cathedral top portion bent correctly to fit exactly to the glass window.

One had a cracked piece of background glass on the bottom right and we simply foiled and soldered that piece together as we were unable to obtain matching replacement glass.

All of the windows measured approximately 26 inches wide by 57 inches high catherdral shaped. We had to be very careful not to remove or destroy the etchings on the bottom left hand side, during the restoration process.

Both of these windows were then installed in their original locations in the front of the church by one of their very experienced craftsman employed by Shunda Consulting Construction & Management Ltd.

 

Designer and Original Artist Unknown

Sunnybrook Farm Museum – Willowdale Zion Presbyterian Church

Filed under Church Windows, Commemorative, Windows by on October 18, 2023 at 5:30 pm {no comments}

The Sunnybrook Farm Museum is located north of the Bower Mall in Red Deer Alberta.

Here is the link to the Sunnybrook Farm Museum.

http://www.sunnybrookfarmmuseum.ca/

The picture below is of the Willowdale Zion Presbyterian Church at its new home on the museum grounds.

The photo below is of the church SE of Red Deer prior to it being moved in November of 2021 to the museum site.

In the fall of 2021 Shunda Consulting & Construction Management Ltd contacted us regarding the moving of the Willowdale Zion Presbyterian Church from it’s rural location SE of Red Deer Alberta to the museum site. The church had 6 cathedral shaped stained glass windows measuring some 26 inches wide by 57 inches high and they wanted our input regarding how these windows could be preserved while they moved the church some 50 + kilometers. The church was moved in November 2021 and we were commissioned to do the work on the windows.

Subsequent to this the museum had donors that were very interested in putting 4 more new stained glass windows in the church once it was restored at the museum site. The donors gave us their ideas and we proceeded from there.

After the church was safely moved onto a new basement, lots of interior and exterior work was required, including all new windows.

It took many months and many trips from our studio here in Innisfail to Red Deer, to do all of this with the last new window just completed and installed in October 2023.

Stay tuned for the existing window restorations and the designs and construction of the 4 new windows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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