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
The south window has been chosen to _illustrate specially_ the greatest
of all these fruits, “Love,” and in the lower portion thereof is depicted
the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Infant Saviour in her arms, surrounded
by angels, whilst in the upper lights, which are indicative of the
Passion, are two angels, one bearing the Cross and the other the chalice
and the Crown of Thorns. Above their heads are the Cross and the Crown
of Victory, and other symbols of the Passion, and in the topmost light,
the Holy Dove. Perhaps no better subject could be found to illustrate
the greatest Love human and divine than the human Mother with her Divine
Son, the only begotten of the Father, whom the Father in His infinite
love of the world gave for man’s redemption.
THE LONG LANCET.
For the long lancet window that faces east it was extremely difficult to
find a subject, owing to its extreme narrowness and height. Many
subjects were tried, but in the end the difficulty was solved by a chance
holiday visit to an old Cornish church at St. Neots, and by the reading
of a passage out of the “Legend of the Cross” in Baring Gould’s “Curious
Myths of the Middle Ages,” pp. 379–382, {14} which was called to mind by
a valued Cornish friend. Out of the “Legend of the Cross,” one of the
greatest popularity in the Middle Ages, and often lending itself to
representation in varied form in fresco or stained glass, has been
designed a window which tells of “Paradise Lost” and “Paradise Regained,”
lost when Adam was driven forth from Eden, but regained through the
Saviour who died upon the Cross, made, so the Legend runs, from the wood
of the three trees which, incorporated and confounded as to their several
natures in a single trunk, had grown from the three seeds of the Tree of
Life, given to Seth by the Guardian Angel and planted by him in his
father’s tomb. “The Tree had grown till its branches reached heaven.
The boughs were covered with leaves and flowers and fruit. But the
fairest fruit was a little babe, a living sun, who seemed to be listening
to the songs of seven white doves who circled round his head.” So runs
the legend of the vision of the son of Adam, as, stopped at Eden’s gate
by the angel with the flaming sword, he looked into the future. Perhaps,
after all, this vision of the redemption of mankind by the coming of the
Saviour endowed with all the seven-fold gifts of the Spirit, is not an
unworthy subject for a stained glass window in a Christian church to-day.
PISCINA WINDOW.
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