I awoke this morning to an NPR report about efforts to restore and reopen a large Children’s Hospital in Durban, South Africa. The correspondent commented on leaded glass windows installed at child height and being an stained glass obsessive, I went on a hunt to see what these would look like. What I found was sorta creepy.

You can barely see the windows on the edges of this photograph. Looks like they tied in with the painted frieze depicting story book scenes.

The seaside building features generous fenestration to allow ample light and fresh air. Throughout, decorative features such as ceramics and stained glass were created by two artists names Mary Steinbank and Wilgeford Vann-Hall between 1926 and 1930. Read more here.