GOLDEN, Colo. — Four historic stained-glass windows at the Mother Cabrini Shrine in Golden have been fully restored after a three-month project that saved nearly 2,800 pounds of irreplaceable glass from potential collapse.
The threat of collapse went undetected for decades until water began pouring through one of the panels.
Restoration company Scottish Stained Glass removed, disassembled, and reinstalled the four large chapel windows, totaling approximately 300 square feet and comprising nearly 1,200 individual pieces of glass, before returning them to the shrine’s hilltop chapel on Lookout Mountain.
The windows, which date to the chapel’s original construction in 1970, had never previously been restored. They were fabricated using Dalle de Verre glass, a thick, faceted material that requires restoration roughly every 60 to 70 years.
“The windows had never been restored. They were about 70 years old,” said Martin Faith, founder and CEO of Scottish Stained Glass…