page_title: West End Collegiate Church
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: West End Collegiate Church / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Stained glass window design for Collegiate Church, New York City
context_page_description: The West End Collegiate Church is a church on West End Avenue at 77th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side. It is part of The Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the City of New York, the oldest Protestant church with a continuing organization in America. The Collegiate Church of New York is dually affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Reformed Church in America. The West End Collegiate Church is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
context_section_description: Architect Robert W. Gibson designed the church in Dutch Colonial style, following the design of the 1606 Vleeshal in Haarlem, the Netherlands. This building has the picturesque qualities of the Gothic, highly valued in the late nineteenth century and deemed especially appropriate to church architecture.  Authenticity is enhanced by the choice of  long, thin, brown bricks laid in Roman pattern, and by the generous use of quoins and blockings of buff terra cotta. The architect further enhanced the antique effect by inserting several handsome, terra cotta panels carved with the coats-of-arms of the church and of past benefactors.  The large, octagonal pulpit is carved from oak.  Its panels show the coat-of-arms of the Dutch Reformed Church and the great seal of the Church.  The pulpit chairs are carved of oak in Old Dutch style. The stained glass windows were donated and created over the course of several decades; three are by Tiffany Studios  and one, the east transept window titled The morning cometh and the shadows flee away, was designed by Clara Miller Burd. In the early 2000s, all the stained glass windows of the church were removed, repaired and reinstalled.
caption: Stained glass window design by Clara Miller Burd for Collegiate Church, New York City
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