The Chapel of the Holy Spirit in the Church of St. Peter's, Cranley Gardens, S.W.Morris, Percy C.
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The Chapel of the Holy Spirit in the Church of St. Peter's, Cranley Gardens, S.W.
Morris, Percy C.
Church architecture -- England -- London
Statuary. Rose Sienna.
Skyros, white, red, and yellow. Landscape.
Brèche Sanguine. Pavonazzo.
Irish Green. Bardilla.
Vedrasse. Tapestry Yava Onyx.
St. Just. Green Yava Onyx.
Swedish Green. Mexican Agate.
Cork Red. Red and Yellow Verona.
Corallo. Griotte.
Bleu Turquin. Tinos.
Jaune Lamartine. Blue Pentelikon.
Jaune Antique. Rosso Antico.
Old Convent Sienna. Cippolino.
Campan Vert. Lunel.
Verde Antico. Grand Antique.
Devon, red and grey.
THE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS.
It remains now to deal with the stained glass of the chapel windows. The
carrying out of this very important part of the chapel decoration has
been entrusted to Messrs. James Powell & Sons, Whitefriars Glass Works,
Tudor Street, E.C., the whole of the windows having been executed by them
to designs prepared by Mr. James C. Powell, to whom warm thanks are due
for the very special interest which he has so kindly taken in the work.
It was decided after careful consideration to follow the style of the
15th century (late Gothic) glass, is which it was found possible in a
singularly effective way to enshrine in a mass of white glass just enough
colour to give richness without great loss of light. The charm of this
old glass of the Perpendicular period was to be found in its more
pictorial quality and in its extreme brilliancy, large masses of silvery
white and golden-hued yellow glass being introduced. In the chapel
windows the glass has been treated in a translucent way and every effort
made to secure brilliancy by using glass of very varying thickness. The
keynote to the subjects of the east window and of the three-light south
window is to be found in Galatians v. 22, 23:—“But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, temperance.”
These windows are intended to recall that verse, and to illustrate some
of the greatest instances of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
THE EAST WINDOW.
In the two outer lower lights of the east window are St. John and St.
Peter, types of love and faith, whilst in the upper or tracery lights of
the window, angels bear scrolls inscribed with the Spirit’s fruits, and
in the topmost lozenge-shaped light is the motto of some of the donors of
the chapel, “Scuto fidei.” In the four centre lower lights are the two
great scenes of the Annunciation and of the Baptism of our Lord, scenes
so beautifully connected with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as the
words of Holy Scripture show (see Luke i. 35, and Matthew iii. 11 and
16).
THE SOUTH WINDOW.
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