ST GEORGE’S CATHEDRAL

ANGLICAN, PERTH, WA

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The West rose or wheel window shown at left is in memory of Constance Bush, and was made in England in 1908. The subject is ‘Christ in glory’. Behind the figure of Christ in the upper trefoil is a rainbow, at one end of which is the Southern Cross, and at the other end a single star (a reference to Australian Federation in 1901?) The angels’ heads are portraits of the donor’s family, and the rest are copied from a fifteenth century German painting. • At right is the rose window in the South transept, called the Dorcas Window. Dorcas was a woman recorded in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 9:36): ‘Now there was in Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and alms deeds which she did’. The window was given in 1908 in memory of Mary Elizabeth Moore, a tireless worker in the service of others. The top figure is that of Dorcas. At the bottom of the window is the figure of Charity. The four remaining figures carry scrolls: one reads ‘Handmaiden of the Lord’.  

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