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APSE WINDOW IN LADY CHAPEL, LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL

who are represented by medallion heads intro-
duced in a scroll work and carried out entirely in
black and white with a little yellow stain.

The same spirit of freedom from the trammels
of conventional medievalism which characterizes
the architecture of the cathedral is extended to the
stained glass. Sir G. G. Scott would have no
lifeless imitations of fifteenth-century canopy
work, but adopted a much freer treatment.
In the lower part of the central window of the apse

the stem of a tree rises and spreads its branches,
in the form of a decorative scroll work of green
leaves, through all the windows in the chapel
symbolizing the root from which the Church
springs, its ceaseless life, its ceaseless growth, and
boundless hospitality, the latter quality being
suggested by a variety of birds and animals
sheltering among its leaves. The figures of the
saints are varied in their color treatment, some
being in white against a colored curtain and others

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OCTOBER I925