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Stained Glass Windows

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Along the east wall of the church. Commemorative Object The Anglican Church of St. Michael, or St. Michael and All Angels, in Princetown, England, was built between 1810 and 1814, designed by the architect Daniel Alexander and built by prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars and finished by those captured during the American War of 1812 who were held in the prison.  It is the only church in England to have been built by POWs.  The church closed in 1816 after all of the prisoners had been released.  The church was reopened in 1831 and was altered and expanded in 1868, 1898 and 1901.


The east window's stained glass, installed in 1910 in memory of the American prisoners who helped to build the church, was donated by the National Society Daughter of the American Colonists as part of their work commemorating those who died in the War of 1812.

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War of 1812