Highways and Byways in Cambridge and ElyConybeare, John William Edward
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Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely
Conybeare, John William Edward
Cambridgeshire (England) -- Description and travel; Isle of Ely (England) -- Description and travel
The window over the organ loft shows us the Ascension, and the Coming
of the Holy Ghost.
TYPE | TYPE
Elijah going up into Heaven. | Moses and the Israelites receiving
| the Law at Pentecost.
|
ANTITYPE | ANTITYPE
Christ going up into Heaven. | Mary and the Disciples receiving
| the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
Elijah is deliberately turning round in his golden chariot of fire to
cast down his ample ruby mantle upon Elisha. Moses is taking the
Tables of the Law from the hand of God.
* * * * *
The subjects of the three windows between the screen and the south
door are all from the lives of St. Peter and St. Paul, and nearly all
from the Acts of the Apostles, from which also all the texts are
taken. Accordingly the place of the usual prophetic Messengers is, in
these windows, taken by figures of St. Luke (all identical), habited
in the costume worn by a Doctor of Medicine in the sixteenth century.
The series of type and antitype is dropped in these windows, and no
strict chronological order is observed in the sequence of the
subjects. Probably some have been misplaced, either originally or at
one of the various releadings to which they have necessarily been
subjected. Every century brings fresh need for this operation.
The subjects in the first window are:
Peter and the Apostles entering | Peter and John bound and
the Temple. | scourged.
|
Peter and John healing the lame | The Death of Ananias.
man in the Beautiful Gate. |
The design of the last scene is directly copied from Raphael's
well-known cartoon.
* * * * *
The second window gives:
The Conversion of St. Paul. | St. Paul at Damascus and his
| escape in a basket.
|
St. Paul adored at Lystra. | St. Paul stoned at Lystra.
* * * * *
The third window is also Pauline:
St. Paul giving a farewell blessing |St. Paul before the Chief Captain at
before embarkation. | Jerusalem.
|
St. Paul exorcising the demoniac at |St. Paul before Caesar at Rome.
Philippi.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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