THE CHAPEL OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY e CHAPEL of PRINCETON UNIVERSITY by RICHARD STILLWELL with a new foreword by ALISON L. BODEN With photographs by noel valero PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS princeton & oxford Copyright © 2020 by Princeton University Press First edition published 1971 by Princeton University Press Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to [email protected] Published by Princeton University Press 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TR press.princeton.edu All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Stillwell, Richard, 1899– 1982, author. | Boden, Alison L., writer of foreword. Title: The Chapel of Princeton University / by Richard Stillwell; with a new foreword by Alison L. Boden. Description: New edition. | Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [2020] | “This edition contains Stillwell’s original text without revisions”— Foreword. Identifiers: LCCN 2019052424 | ISBN 9780691195209 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Princeton University. Chapel. Classification: LCC LD4615.C49 S75 2020 | DDC 378.749/65— dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019052424 British Library Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available Editorial: Fred Appel, Jenny Tan Production Editorial: Terri O’Prey Cover and Text Design: Chris Ferrante Production: Steve Sears Publicity: Julia Haav, Kate Farquhar-Thomson Cover and Frontispiece: West facade of the Chapel of Princeton University, 2019 photograph by Noel Valero Publication of this book has been aided by the Friends of the Chapel This book has been composed in Baskerville Original Printed on acid- free paper. ∞ Printed in Italy 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 to all the artists to Whose skill and understanding this chapel is a perpetual testimony to all their helpers, artisans and technicians Without Whose loyal cooperation the Work could not have been accomplished and above all to John grier hibben, president of princeton university and to albert mathias friend, Jr. to Whose patient and untiring direction the program and iconology of the sculpture and of the stained glass are due and to the many donors Whose names are recorded elseWhere this book is dedicated in grateful admiration and affection “By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them” .