PORCH

A contemporary arrangement.

CHILDREN'S CORNER BEHIND DOOR

Old photographs from Stonehouse School now demolished.

FIREPLACE

HEAVEN AND EARTH

'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'.

Genesis 1.1

OLD ORGAN

SEA AND FISH

'They that go down to the sea in ships, these see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep'.

Psalm 107

ADJACENT VESTRY DOOR

SUNRISE

'He makes the sun shine on the evil and on the good'.

St. Matthew 5.45

WINDOW

BREAD

'Man cannot live by bread alone, but needs every word that God speaks'.

St. Matthew 4.4

WINDOW

WATER

'To anyone who is thirsty, I will give the right to drink from the spring of the water of life'. 

Revelation of St. John

WINDOW

SPRING

'And in the green under wood and cover, blossom by blossom the Spring begins'. 

Swinburne

WINDOW

SUMMER

'Summer is icumen in, loud sing the Cuckoo, groweth seed and bloweth mead and springeth the wood new'.

13th Century

BEAM

NIGHT AND DAY

'Now the day is over, night is drawing Nigh. Shadows of the evening, steal across the sky.''

Baring-Gould

STANDING

INDUSTRY

'Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing. With tools he is all'.

Carlyle

LEFT OF ALTAR

MOON AND STARS

'The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork'.

Psalms

RIGHT OF ALTAR

TREES

'I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. Poems are made by fools like me. But only God can make a tree'.

Kilmer

STANDING

PRINTING

Johann Gutenberg printed the first Bible using movable type in 1440. Caxton printed the English Bible in 1476.

WINDOW

AUTUMN

'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, conspiring with Him how to load and bless with fruit the vines which round the thatch-eaves run'.

Keats

WINDOW

WINTER

'In the bleak midwinter, frosty winds made moan. Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone. Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, in the bleak midwinter, long ago'. 

Christina Rossetti

WINDOW

GOD'S KINGDOM 

'The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows up it becomes a tree'.

St. Matthew 13. 31

WINDOW

NEW LIFE

'Behold I make all things new'.

Revelations