Stained Glass Window at Melbourne Scots' Presbyterian Church

Corner Russell and Collins Streets, Melbourne, MELBOURNE CITY

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Melbourne Scots War Memorial 1963

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  • Memorial Window References & Acknowledgements

    Stained Glass Window at Melbourne Scots' Presbyterian Church - Memorial Window References & Acknowledgements

    Rosalie Strother (ed.), 'The Stories in Stained Glass: the Scots' Church Melbourne stained glass windows'; rough sketches for Scots' Church, Melbourne, Alan Sumner Collection, State Library of Victoria.

    Memorial Window Subject

    Stained Glass Window at Melbourne Scots' Presbyterian Church - Memorial Window Subject

    The Gift of the Holy Spirit

    Memorial Window Text

    Stained Glass Window at Melbourne Scots' Presbyterian Church - Memorial Window Text

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    Memorial Window Inscription

    Stained Glass Window at Melbourne Scots' Presbyterian Church - Memorial Window Inscription

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    Memorial Window Description & History

    Stained Glass Window at Melbourne Scots' Presbyterian Church - Memorial Window Description & History

    The most recent of all the windows in the Scots' Church, Melbourne, The Gift of the Holy Spiritand an accompanying mosaic of the Resurrection were unveiled by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II in 1963. Both were designed and made by Melbourne artist, Alan Sumner. Notes on Sumner's rough sketch for the window indicated that although the window was a tribute to the men who died in the two World Wars, he intended to emphasise peace through the placement of the dove in God's hands at the head of the window and the raised hands of the people below aspiring to grasp a peaceful future. The lower section of the window showed the despair and destruction caused by war.

    Initially, the two trefoil windows were to contain Alpha and Omega, symbols of the beginning and the end, but this was replaced with the badges of the Australian Army, Navy and Air Force and Red Cross, painted in exemplary style by Sumner. The mosaic depicted the empty tomb on the left with the resurrected Christ on the right to symboliseVictory over Death.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Vic War Heritage Inventory - Stained Glass Memorial Windows Study

    Author: Bronwyn Hughes
    Year: 2013
    Grading: Local

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