| East End (Altar) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | St Augustine of Hippo | Origen |  | |
| St Anselm | John Eriugena | |||
 | John Fisher | John Colet |  | |
| Thomas Cranmer | William Tyndale | |||
 | Laurence Chaderton | Benjamin Whichcote |  | |
| John Harvard | Peter Sterry | |||
 | William Bedell | John Smith |  | |
| William Sancroft | William Law | |||
| West End (Entrance) | ||||
College Chapel Windows
The Chapel windows were originally plain. The present stained glass, executed by the firm of Heaton, Butler, and Bayne, was completed in 1884 as part of the commemoration of the College's tercentenary. The actual designer was most probably Clement John Heaton the younger (1861-1940) but the general scheme of subjects was suggested by the Revd F.J.A.Hort (the celebrated New Testament scholar), Fellow of Emmanuel from 1872 to 1892. Though the scale is much smaller, the basic intention was similar to that of the windows in Trinity College chapel, planned a decade or so before by Hort's friends and colleagues there, Westcott and Lightfoot. The figures are chosen to illustrate the continuity of the history of the Church, and the special part played in it by members of the College.
Going from east to west, the first two windows on either side show theologians of the early and middle ages and of the English reformation (men, it is lightly said, who might have belonged to Emmanuel had it existed); the remaining four show theologians who actually were of Emmanuel. Those on the north side are men whose contributions were chiefly to the organisation of the Church and to systematic theology; those on the south to spiritual life and thought and to speculative theology. The plan exhibits a feeling for the Church as a unity less fashionable in the 1870s and 1880s than now: the Cambridge Platonists of the seventeenth century are to be seen as the legitimate heirs of Origen and Eriugena; the Catholic John Fisher and the Protestant Thomas Cranmer, both reformers, though in different ways, both martyrs, share a window.
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