Status: |
Unknown |
Confidence: |
Medium |
Memorial name: |
Stearns Memorial Tablet |
Description: |
bronze and marble tablet, the inscription panel is of Sienna marble, and the lettering is a mosaic inlay of favrile glass [NYTR1908, NYO1908, LC1908, CHU1908] |
Tiffany 1910: |
Not listed |
Duncan 1980: |
Not listed |
Tiffany 1897: |
Not listed |
Signature: |
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Other documentation: |
[NYTR1908, NYO1908, LC1908] |
Designer: |
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Memorial details: |
John Noble Stearns (1831 - 14 Mar 1907), a vestryman and warden of the church for 36 years [NYTR1908, NYT1908, NYO1908, LC1908, CHU1908, FINDAGRAVE] |
Donor: |
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Date: |
Installed ca. Nov 1908 [NYTR1908, NYT1908, NYO1908, LC1908, CHU1908] |
Inscription: |
IN LOVING MEMORY OF / JOHN NOBLE STEARNS / 1831-1907 / VESTRYMAN FOR NINETEEN YEARS / JUNIOR WARDEN FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS / BELOVED OF GOD AND OF MEN / WHOSE MEMORY IS BLESSED [NYO1908, DEDUCED] |
Comment: |
There is a Stearns Memorial Tablet in the church but it is bronze, with no marble, and with (approximately) the same inscription [PHOTO, ORG] |
CHU1908: |
The Churchman (5 Dec 1908, p. 822) |
DEDUCED: |
Deduced from other information |
DUNC1980: |
Tiffany Windows, Alastair Duncan (1980) |
FINDAGRAVE: |
Findagrave.com, for deducing biographical or genealogical information |
LC1894: |
The Living Church (17 Nov 1894, p. 552) |
LC1908: |
The Living Church (5 Dec 1908, p. 155) |
NYO1908: |
The New York Observer (3 Dec 1908, p. 730) |
NYT1908: |
New York Times (14 Nov 1908, p. 4) |
NYTR1894: |
New York Daily Tribune (5 Nov 1894, p. 7) |
NYTR1908: |
New York Daily Tribune (15 Nov 1908, p. 7) |
ORG: |
Organization |
PHOTO: |
Photo of item |
TIFF1886: |
Announcement in American Architect and Building News, Tiffany Glass Company (6 Feb 1886) |
TIFF1893: |
Chicago Exposition booklet, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (1893) |
TIFF1897: |
A List of Windows: And Extracts from Letters & Newspapers, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (1897) |
TIFF1910: |
A Partial List of Tiffany Windows, Tiffany Studios (1910) |
YEAR1896: |
Year Book of St. George's Church, Stuyvesant Square, New York (Easter, 1896, p. 46) |