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.