The following window (that next to the screen) deals with the story of St. Thomas (John xx.), and has been wrongly arranged: what are now the right-hand scenes should be the left so as to come first. It now stands thus:
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Type The Prodigal Son returns to his Father. |
Type Joseph meets Jacob in Egypt. |
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Antitype Thomas returns to belief in Jesus. |
Antitype Jesus meets His Disciples at Supper. |
We find in the first scene here what is perhaps the most ably drawn figure in the entire series of windows, that of the Elder Brother. Observe the utter contempt and disgust written on his face and in his whole attitude. He wears a pair of most aggressively red leggings.
The window over the organ loft shows us the Ascension, and the Coming of the Holy Ghost.
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Type Elijah going up into Heaven. |
Type Moses and the Israelites receiving the Law at Pentecost. |
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Antitype Christ going up into Heaven. |
Antitype 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.