Sarah Wyman Whitman’s stained glass window in the Parish House commemorates the life of Reverend Phillips Brooks, the first rector of the church. A dedicated church member, Whitman taught Sunday Bible classes for women for thirty years. Following Brooks’ death in 1893, Whitman and her class campaigned for three years before she was permitted to create the window. Across from Whitman’s window is another dedicated to her memory. Whitman was also known for her landscape, flower, and portrait paintings, and she designed over two hundred book covers for the Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin.
Margaret Redmond created the window Tree of Life in the Parish House to memorialize Boston painter Susan Hinckley Bradley. Redmond’s stained glass works in Trinity Church include Saul Anointeth David, David Plays before Saul, and Queen of Sheba before King Solomon in the northwest vestibule, as well as Eight Apostles and The Evangelists in the nave.
