Franz Mayer & Co.

Franz Mayer & Co. (Mayer & Co. of Munich) is a German stained glass design and manufacturing company, based in Munich, Germany, that has been active throughout most of the world for over 150 years. The firm was very popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and was the principal provider of stained glass to the large Roman Catholic churches that were constructed throughout the world during that period. Franz Mayer and Co. were stained glass artists to the Holy See and consequently were popular with Roman Catholic clients.^[1]

Great window in the choir gallery of St. Mary - St. Catherine of Siena Parish (Charlestown, MA, USA)

Window by Franz Mayer & Co. for St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Installation was by the studios of George L. Payne of Patterson, New Jersey, USA.

Works in Ireland

The Mayer Co. is responsible for stained glass in at least ten of Ireland's Cathedral churches (Derry, Thurles, Letterkenny, Ballaghaderreen, Newry, Waterford, Ballina, Enniscorthy, Carlow, and Cobh). The work of Franz Mayer & Co. in Ireland is currently the subject of graduate research at Trinity College Dublin. (as at June, 2013).^[2]

• Cathedral of St Patrick and St Colman, Newry
• Church of the Immaculate Conception, Wexford
• Church of the Sacred Heart (Omagh), Co. Tyrone^[3][4]
• Clongowes Wood, Clongowes Wood College
• Dominican Church, Dundalk
• Loreto Convent, Omagh
• Mausoleum Monivea, County Galway
• Presentation Brothers' Novitiate, Blarney Street, Cork City
• Presentation Convent, Tralee
• St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth
• Vincentians, Sunday’s Well, County Cork

Catholic cathedrals

Detail of a stained glass window featuring St. Dominic receiving the rosary from the Virgin Mary by Franz Mayer in Carlow Cathedral

• Armagh RC Cathedral (St. Patrick's Catholic Cathedral, Armagh)^[5]
• Ballaghaderreen Cathedral^[6]
• Carlow Cathedral
• Cathedral of St Patrick and St Colman, Newry
• Derry Cathedral
• Enniscorthy Cathedral
• Letterkenny Cathedral
• Monaghan Cathedral
• Thurles Cathedral
• St. Patrick's Cathedral, Karachi 1878

Works in the United States

Close up shot of the Mayer & Co. maker's mark on a stained glass window in St. Edward Catholic Church in Palm Beach, Florida. Image shows the text "Mayer & Co. Munich New York".

Mayer & Co. mark on stained glass window in Omaha, Nebraska.

• St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, (Columbia, SC)
• Atlanta First United Methodist Church, Atlanta, Georgia
• Basilica of the Immaculate Conception (Jacksonville), Jacksonville, Florida
• Basilica San Francisco de Asis, Mission Dolores, San Francisco (Roman Catholic)
• Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Covington, KY (Roman Catholic)
• Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama, (Roman Catholic)
• Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham, Alabama
• Cathedral of St. Andrew, Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Charleston, SC (Roman Catholic)
• Chapel of the Rock, Saint Malo Church, Colorado.
• Chapel of the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost Preparatory School
• Christ and St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Virginia
• Christ Church (Greenville, South Carolina)
• Church of the Holy Name of Mary, (1848) Newport, RI
• Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Augusta, GA (Roman Catholic)
• Church of Saint Peter, Saratoga Springs, NY (Roman Catholic)
• Corpus Christi Church, Buffalo, New York (Roman Catholic)
• Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart, Washington, D.C. (Roman Catholic)
• The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Motherhouse, Nashville, TN, St. Dominic Oratory and St. Cecilia Chapel ^[8]
• The Episcopal Church of the Holy Innocents, Henderson, NC
• Grace Episcopal Church, Radford, VA
• Mother of God, Covington, KY (Roman Catholic)
• Mulberry Street United Methodist Church, Macon, GA
• Our Lady Help of Christians, Philadelphia, PA, Port Richmond section of the city (Roman Catholic), established in 1885
• Our Lady of the Lake Catholic church, Louisiana
• Resurrection Roman Catholic Parish (formerly St. Stephen) in Johnstown, PA
• Sacred Heart Church, Norfolk, Virginia (Roman Catholic)
• St. Adalbert's Basilica, Buffalo, New York (Roman Catholic)
• St. Alphonsus Parish, Chicago, IL
• St. Ann's Catholic Church, Staten Island, NY
• Saint Anne's Catholic Church, Peasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation, ME
• St. Catherine of Siena (New Orleans)
• St. Edward Roman Catholic Church, Palm Beach, Florida (Roman Catholic)^[9]
• St. Elizabeth Church - Greenville Alabama
• St. Gertrude Parish, Chicago, IL
• St. Hyacinth Basilica, Avondale neighborhood of Chicago, IL
• St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church, Omaha, NE
• St. James Episcopal,^[10] Greenville, South Carolina
• St. James Parish,^[11] Haverhill, Massachusetts (Roman Catholic)
• Saint John Catholic Church, Westminster, MD
• St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Circleville, Ohio
• St. Joseph Catholic Church, Macon, Georgia
• St. Joseph Catholic Church, Stockbridge, MA
• St. Joseph's Parish,^[12] Biddeford, ME (Roman Catholic)
• St. Joseph's Villa, Richmond, Virginia, est. 1930
• St. Leo the Great Catholic Church, Philadelphia, PA
• St. Mary - St. Catherine of Siena Parish (Charlestown, MA)
• St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT^[13]
• St. Mary's Church, Greenville, SC (Roman Catholic)
• St. Mary's Church, Uxbridge, Massachusetts
• St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church (Charleston, South Carolina)
• St. Matthew's Church, East Syracuse, NY
• St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church, Charleston, South Carolina
• St. Michael's Church- Chicago, IL, in Old Town (Roman Catholic)
• St. Stanislaus - Bishop & Martyr Church, Buffalo, New York (Roman Catholic)
• St. Stephen the Martyr Catholic Church, Omaha, NE
• St. Thomas Aquinas, Lincoln, NE
• Shrine of the Sacred Heart Church, Baltimore, MD
• Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Mary, Monroe, MI
• Trinity Episcopal Church (Asbury Park)
• Trinity Episcopal Parish Church (Seattle)

Works in Canada

• Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church (Ottawa)
• Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec
• Cathedral of Christ the King (Hamilton)
• Cathedral Church of St. James (Toronto)
• Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Saint John
• Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Guelph, Ontario (Roman Catholic)^[14]
• St. Michael's Cathedral (Toronto)
• St. Patrick's Basilica, Ottawa
• St. Patrick's Church, Halifax
• St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Toronto

Works in the rest of the world

• All Saints Church, Appleton Roebuck, near York, North Yorkshire, England
• All Saints' Church, Dunedin Aotearoa New Zealand
• Church of St Michael, Princetown^[15]
• Holy Trinity Church, Nice, France: four examples^[16]
• Pershore Abbey, Pershore, Worcestershire, England - east single lancet in SE transept (1879) and east window in NE chapel (1879–80)^[17]
• Metropolitan Cathedral of Antofagasta, Chile, 1910^[18]
• St. John the Evangelist, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
• St John's Church, Acaster Selby, near York, North Yorkshire, England
• St. Mary's Fochabers, Moray, Scotland.

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