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An Aerial View of the Nave Using architecture as metaphor, Gothic architects contrasted the mystical, hidden aspects of God (darkness), with the dazzling beauty of divine revelation (colored windows). Nowhere in the cathedral is this more emphasized than the nave. Grace Cathedral's nave is wider and taller than all but three English cathedral naves (Liverpool, York, and Ripon), running 168 feet long, 47 feet wide, and 91 feet tall. Visible above the organ pipes is the east rose window. The window, which contains nearly 3800 pieces of inch-thick glass bricks, is the Canticle of Brother Sun window by Gabriel Loire inspired by Saint Francis' great poem, Il Cantico di Frate Sole. This window's theme was first chosen in 1930 by stained glass artist Charles Connick, to honor San Francisco's patron saint. |
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