Jubal and Miriam 1843-48 William Jay Bolton This impressive window is one of an extraordinary program of sixty windows made for the Church of the Holy Trinity (now St. Ann and the Holy Trinity) in Brooklyn, New York, between 1843 and 1848. The Church of the Holy Trinity was built in 1843 by wealthy Brooklyn merchant Edgar John Bartow, and designed by Minard Lafever, a noted architect working in the Gothic Revival style. He was commissioned to build in Brooklyn a church that would rival Trinity Church in Manhattan. With its tall attenuated steeple encrusted with Gothic-style ornament, the church expressed a new spirit and sense of freedom, representing a departure from the ecclesiastical conservatism of Trinity. They contracted with William Jay Bolton and his brother John Bolton, of Pelham, New York, to execute the sixty windows on three stories as well as a majestic Chancel window and an organ loft window for the church. Unusually, the Boltons assumed all rolesas designers, painters,
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