Restoring three large stained-glass windows from an earthquake-destroyed church is proof that “if something can be picked up it can be put back together”.
Graham Stewart has rescued glass from shattered windows in many Canterbury churches but he has never restored one before now. It is a centrepiece of the Quake City exhibition that opened in Christchurch yesterday.
The North Loburn conservationist salvaged “thousands and thousands of tiny pieces” of stained glass from the Church of Holy Innocents near Peel Forest.