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.