Travel: Find Tiffany’s masterpiece chapel in Florida

At a museum in the outskirts of Orlando, which is a bit overlooked, there is a gorgeous chapel, unlike what I have ever seen.

Technically speaking, the Tiffany chapel is not a chapel. That’s because the space is not dedicated. Instead, the exquisite decorative art exhibition is an anchor of the American Museum of the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum.

Everything you see is due to his acclaimed artist Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) or in some cases his studio. Tiffany is probably the best in his stained glass windows in the late 19th and early 20th century. If Tiffany’s name seems to be familiar to things other than Windows, it is a TIFFANY & CO currently owned by his father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, is currently owned by French luxury Konglomarit LVMH. Because it was established.

The chapel was designed for the 1893 Colombian Expo. The expo, held in Chicago, was a repetition of the Great World Fair frequently held at the turn of the previous century. More than 27 million visited the fair between May and October 1893.

Think of Tiffany Chapel. It is mainly composed of high altars, baptism fonts, windows, engraved decorative arches and pillars, candles, and mosaics. It featured the best church furniture and liturgy objects that can be produced by Tiffany’s studio.

Tiffany has adopted a design inspired by Bizanthin and Romanesque. It complemented Richardson’s Romanesque by 1893.

After the exposition, the wealthy sponsor purchased items for $ 50,000 (equivalent to $ 2024) to use as a chapel at the unfinished cathedral of St. John God. Originally, it was designed with a blend of Bizanthin and Romanesque, a cathedral in New York City, which broke in 1892, but remains unfinished.

Tiffany re -acquired his chapel after the construction of St. John the Divine switched to Gothic revival. Later, he was installed in Lawrerton Hall, his long island esthetic, and sat down until the fire broke out in the 1950s.

Thankfully, Hugh and Janet Mc Ken intervened. They bought something that could be rescued and carried everything to Winter Park’s home. McKeans won the elements of other chapels sold before the fire. Eventually, the re -assembled Chapel received a large two -year protection before opening in 1999.

Twenty -five years later, the museum celebrated the anchor anniversary and was created for the expo with a special exhibition featuring the “Church Father”. This golden glass mosaic, reminiscent of the mosaic of St. Louis Cathedral in St. Louis, Missouri, depicts the saints John Krissostom, Augustine, and Ambrose. This is the first time that a mosaic has been seen in Chapel since 1893.

If you go

The Morse Museum is open from Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9:30 am to 4:00 pm, Friday 9:30 am to 8:00 pm, and 1:00 pm to 4 pm. A modest admission fee will be charged.

Winter Park (population 29,795) is a small city with an attractive cityscape. The overall feel is completely different from the feel of Orlando’s theme park.

Those who are interested in the Tiffany chapel are also grateful to the three churches. All Saints Episcopal is a rare example of Gothic revival in the 1940s. The first congregation of a dignified neoclassical school. And the Rollins University’s Revival Nowls commemorative chapel. It is noteworthy that both All Saints and Knowles Memorials were designed by the architect Ralph Adams Cram. Changes in the CRAM to the architecture of St. John the Divine have begun a course for Tiffany Chapel to end the museum.

Dennis Lenox is writing a Christian post travel column.