The Stained-Glass Windows of St. Andrew's Dune Church

Stainedûglass windows are superb works of art, and the 45 stunning windows in St. AndrewÆs Dune Church, a redûshingled 1879 structure nestled among the dunes in Southampton, New York, make this intimately scaled house of worship one of the most picturesque summer resort churches on the eastern seaboard. The diverse assemblage ranges from breathtaking opalescentûglass windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany and John LaFarge to PreûRaphaeliteûinspired panes by the British firm Heaton, Butler & Bayne to lushly floral windows by Bostonian Wilbur Herbert Burnham, and, coming full circle, to Stephen HannockÆs opalescentûglass landscape window, installed in 2020. All contributed by congregants to memorialize loved ones, the windows offer a stunning overview of the history of stained glass from the 19th century to today. In her authoritative text, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen recounts the storied history of the church, including the devastation to the building and many of its windows caused