Conrad Schmitt Studios: stained glass conservation

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Conrad Schmitt Studios: Creation and restoration of decorative painting, stained glass, art glass, murals, mosaic, sculpture and statuary

	Photo: Michael Mastro

Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama

To renew the 1850 interior, enhancing the celebration of liturgies, articulating the present beauty and reflecting the history of the archdiocese in the sacred structure.

Conrad Schmitt Studios proposed to uplift the eye and direct it toward the altar through the installation of a new, coffered ceiling with fleur de lis symbols, representing the Blessed Virgin Mary, and shamrocks, for the Trinity. The historic, Romanesque interior, including the new ornamental plaster, was painted, gilded and glazed. Gilded accents were added on the column capitals and in the apse. Two exterior domes were also gilded by CSS artisans. New marble flooring includes heraldic images of the coats of arms of the past and present bishops of Mobile. The cathedral today glows brightly with renewal and embraces more archdiocesan history than ever before.