This was a wonderful project. While Wally was building cabinetry for the job, Marc fabricated and carved 7 gothic transoms for Trinity Church at the foot of Broadway in New York.
The anti rooms were dark and working with the New York Historical Society we designed new interior sash to replace the solid panels above the doors. The originals had carved sash on the outside applied to solid panels (as seen in the first picture above).
Working with solid white oak the sub frames were built and carved, then the “rope” molding was carved and applied. Interior casings and drip sills were also made.
On site, the existing panels were cut out and routed to accept ½” thermopane glass, which was sandwiched between the old and new.
There were so many hand cut nails in the panels, several router bits were destroyed in the process.
It broke our hearts to see this wonderful old historic church covered in ashes after the attacks of 9/11/01.