On Monday 3rd February me and my team headed out of Sydney toward Boorowa, a medium-sized country town about 130km west of Goulburn. We were booked to excavate two stained glass windows from St John's Anglican Church. I'd looked at these windows about 12months prior, to make recommendations as they were clearly in need of remedial work. It took some time for the Parish to gain the necessary funding for the work but its very good that they did; when I saw the windows again the other week, they had deteriorated significantly in the intervening time. In the Good Shepherd window the buckling of the lower portion had reached a stage where glass was about to break.
St Johannes Window
External scaffold: commencing work
Top arch removed
Cutting out the sacrificial border
Lifting out the next panel
Hacking out putty to free overglazing
Lifting out the overglazing
Removong the last panel
Lifting out the inscription
The Good Shepherd Window
Overglazing removed from the arch
Removing timber bead
Arched panel removed
Removing next panel
Separating panel 2 from panel 1
Boarding up the opening