Press Releases
King Richard’s Liturgical Design and Contracting Safely Removes Items from Church in Strawn, Illinois.
Strawn, Illinois— 10/10/2024 — In September 2024, St. Rose Catholic Church in Strawn, Illinois, permanently closed, prompting the church to enlist King Richard’s for the sensitive removal of significant liturgical items. These included removals of their cherished liturgical Items. Pieces that were removed included an Altar of Sacrifice, a Side Altar, the Crucifix, Altar Rail, [...]
Watertown New York Convent Removal and Purchase of Liturgical Items.
Watertown, New York— October 9, 2024 — King Richard’s was tasked this past September to remove all liturgical items from the recently closed Sisters of St. Joseph convent in Watertown, New York, following their move to a new location in September. The collection encompassed a range of significant religious artifacts, including the sanctuary’s stained-glass windows, [...]
King Richard’s creates and installs beautiful custom wood altar of sacrifice for St. James Catholic Church in Rockford, Illinois.
Project #: P-P-2049 Location: Rockford, Illinois Project Type: Liturgical design, Altar of Sacrifice Date: September [...]
King Richard’s delivers on designing, creating and installing matching set of sanctuary pieces for St. Ann Parish in Haines City, Florida.
Project #: P-2048 Location: Haines City, Florida Project Type: Sanctuary Set, Altar of Sacrifice, Altar [...]
King Richard’s artists hand-carved beautiful baptismal font with angels for Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Project #: P-2047 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan Project Type: Baptismal Font Date: September 2024
King Richard’s Great Lakes Director of Business Development Michael Barone attends The Solemn Mass of Dedication of the Newly Updated Altar of Sacrifice for St. Luke’s Church in Nicholasville, KY.
Project# P-2044 Location: Nicholasville, KY Project Type: Reredos Renovation, Altar of Sacrifice, Ambo and Pedestal [...]
Detroit Catholic Central High School Dedicates State of the Art Stem Building Including Blessings of King Richard’s Liturgical Pieces.
Detroit, Michigan— August 13, 2024 — Today at the Detroit Catholic High School, faculty, students, alumni and their friends and family dedicated and celebrated their new 57,000 square foot Stem education building named also The George and Mary Turek Hall of Science. The remarkable building contains a competitive robotics space, an aviation flight school, computer [...]
Beautiful hand carved heirloom quality statue of Our Lady of the Buckeyes was created for the St Thomas More Newman Center on The Ohio State University Campus.
Project #: P-2042 Location: Columbus, Ohio Project Type: Statue Design and Creation Date: April 26, [...]
Brand new wood gold painted tabernacle designed and created for St. Mary’s in Hagertown, Maryland.
Project #: P-2040 Location: Hagerstown, Maryland Project Type: Altar ware, Tabernacle, Liturgical Design Date: July [...]
Frederick, Maryland – The Blessing of the Antique Stained Glass Windows at St. John Evangelist Church
The Blessing of the Antique Stained Glass Windows at St. John Evangelist Church
Frederick, Maryland— September 8, 2023 — A new set of stained-glass windows was blessed on Sunday September 8, 2023 at St. John’s Evangelist Church in Frederick, Maryland on its 260th anniversary. King Richard’s Liturgical Design and Contracting rescued the stained-glass windows from a [...]
New 3.5 Foot Monstrance from KR Arrives in its New Home.
Project #: P-2033 Location: Gastonia, North Carolina Project Type: Altar ware, Monstrance Date: January 2023
King Richard’s Liturgical Design & Contracting, is brought in to manage the restoration and removal of a 19th century reredos which includes six tons of marble and mosaics for Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Ayer Mansion in Boston.
Project #: P-2031 Location: Boston, MA Project Type: Removal, Reredos Date: November 2021
Statue from KR travels to Convocation in Charlotte, NC.
Project #: P-2023 Location: Charlotte, North Carolina Project Type: Statuary
The Citizen’s Voice – Scranton, PA
Relics from shuttered churches get new life BY JACOB SEIBEL, STAFF WRITER Published: March 8, 2015
A third-generation parishioner stood outside of what remains of the revered Holy Trinity Lithuanian Church in Wilkes-Barre and sighed.
Looking at what were mostly empty windowpanes, Mary Anne Revit recalled what she missed most about the ornate monument known as “the gem on [...]
Winfield parish rescues church’s old frames for a picture-perfect ending
Winfield parish rescues church’s old frames for a picture-perfect ending
Fourteen historic frames have been returned to St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Winfield and once again hold paintings of the Stations of the Cross.
The handmade frames, believed to date to the 19th century, were sold by the church during a restoration seven years ago [...]
Berkshire religious items find a new home
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JoAnn at the altar in Mississippi
JoAnn Hauge of Lanesboro was excited when she opened the Feb. 26, 2010 copy of The Catholic Observer.
“I was thrilled to see the altar from my home parish was featured and was now being used in a parish in Mississippi,†she said.
JoAnn, a native of Adams, [...]
King Richard’s Religious Artifacts Retrieval and Restoration: Antique Religious Items
By Shawn Tribe
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
It’s always with bitter-sweetness that one sees sites such as these; bitter because of the fact that they’ve been removed from churches that likely rid themselves of these beautiful bits of our heritage, but sweet insofar as there is hope to reclaim them again to such use.
A reader sent in [...]
King Richard’s Adds Well-Respected Liturgical Designer to Staff
King Richard’s Adds Well-Respected Liturgical Designer to Staff
Atlanta, October 18th, 2010
Los Angeles based liturgical designer and consultant Rhett Judice has joined King Richard’s liturgical Design & Contracting as the firm’s first full-time, in-house designer. He will travel to King Richard’s offices in Atlanta and Dallas, and work with the company’s national and international customers, providing [...]
The Most Beautiful Adoration Chapel In America?
By Larry and Mary Sue Eck
Photos by Denis Kubat
The pictures, good as they are, don’t do it justice. You really DO have to be there.
People walk through the doors and gasp. Some burst into tears. Most stand awestruck. Front and center is the Monstrance and it is beautiful. Mary stands on one side and Joseph, [...]
‘A dream come true’
‘A dream come true’
By Gretchen R. Crowe
Day turned into night as parishioners of St. Theresa Parish in Ashburn celebrated the dedication of their new spiritual home last week.
Gathered around the shiny bronze doors of the brick and stone structure, hundreds of parishioners – hoods up and umbrellas out – watched as Arlington Bishop Paul S. [...]