From the National Cathedral Website:How did Darth Vader, a fictional villain from the Star Wars movies, end up on the wall of Washington National Cathedral? In the 1980s the Cathedral, with National Geographic World magazine, sponsored a competition for children to design decorative sculpture for the Cathedral. The third-place winner was Christopher Rader of Kearney, Nebraska who submitted a drawing of this futuristic representation of evil. Darth Vader was placed on the northwest tower with the other winning designs: a raccoon, a girl with pigtails and braces and a man with large teeth and an umbrella.
The fierce head was sculpted by Jay Hall
Carpenter and carved by Patrick J. Plunkett.
More information can be found here on the Darth Vader self-guided tour page.
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