The high-quality binding and big glossy pages present a treasure of London’s Catholic heritage.

The Catholic Register

 

 

 
Stained Glass Studio
Robert McCausland Limited
Robert McCausland Limited of Toronto, Ontario, the oldest stained glass studio in North America, created and installed the sixty-four panes in the fourteen three-storey windows set high in the chapel walls. James Ramsden designed the windows; Edward Law painted them, and Albert Thompson did the cutting. Fr. Prieur suspects that Fr. Dennis O’Connor, the second rector (1913-1930), assisted the McCausland team with the skilfully orchestrated plan of the nave windows.

Photographers
Chris Bannister,
Harry Kiewer, Neil Pfaff

of Beta Photos

Designer
Brian Grebow
of BG Communications
In late February, 2000, Chris and Harry clambered up a thirty-foot high scaffold for two weeks, coordinated by Neil from the chapel floor. Using a Linhof 4x5 view camera, they photographed each window and pane, producing magnificent transparencies. They lit the chapel interior to balance the brilliant light coming through the windows so the pictures would show the window settings and not just the scenes out of context.

With his keen eye for good typography and for designs that work from the reader’s perspective, Brian developed a contemporary design with touches of medieval flourish that organized the many elements into a satisfying whole. A full-service graphic designer, Brian coordinated the printing, and he even persuaded Fr. Prieur to write reflections for the biblical windows for those he had done for the windows in the nave.

Editor
Krysia P. Lear
of The Editorial Suite
Photography Editorial Advisor
Frank McLean
A non-fiction editor, Krysia helps writers express their ideas clearly and make information clear and relevant. Her insights on effective writing and into Christianity and her attention to detail helped the author to bring the scenes in the windows to life. Her perceptive questions enabled him to further focus the book and her research provided important details. She also works with writers to improve style and reduce verbal clutter.

It was about answers to three key questions: 1) How can the window images of different sizes work best with their texts of different lengths in both pages and sections? 2) Which transparency, among those taken of each window, has the best lighting, colour, sharpness, detail, modeling and framing for reproduction? 3) Following pre-press, does the proof print predict sufficiently high quality image reproduction in the book?

 

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