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The Tower
 
There are eight small cherub windows way up in the tower of Christ Church. From the outside of the church they look like small arched window about half way up the tower, one on each corner.
 
Cherub window from outside

The cherub windows are situated on the outside edge of each wall of the tower. They're a little hard to notice from the outside. As is the case with most stained glass windows, from the outside they don't look like much at all.

From the inside of the church, however, especially on a sunny day, they are a delight to behold.

 

If we could strip away the narthex and nave, right arrowboth transepts and the chancel, and leave just the four bare walls of the central tower (for imagination's sake let's not include any openings into the tower from any of the areas we just stripped away), it would be much easier to notice the cherub windows.

The cherub windows are called "the Boody Babies" because the Boody family donated the funds necessary for the construction of the windows. The cherub window were created by by Thomas W. Harland, a local real estate expert who took up glass making as a hobby. Mr. Harland also created the Apostle's windows in the cloister, the sacrament windows in the sacristy, and the windows in the narthex and the north portico.

The cherubs on the tower windows are painted on the glass and then fired in an oven to "fix" the image permanently to the glass surface. The windows parts are then placed into lead "caming" (an H-shaped channel of pure lead) and soldered together to form the window's image and shape.

Boody Baby graphic device
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The eight cherub windows are basically identical in size and shape, but the details in each are all slightly different. There are blond cherubs with blue robes facing right, dark curly-haired cherubs with green robes facing left, brown haired cherubs with purple robes facing in one direction or another, and so on. For the sake of connection speeds and loading time, we will show two representative cherubs on this page.

 
A blue cherub "Boody Baby"
A dark curly-haired cherub.
 
A blond cherub
A blond cherub.
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