21. WEST NAVE WINDOWS
These two windows are found in the West wall of the nave, on the North side. They form a pair. They show ordinary looking people touched with the fire of Pentecost. Each window has a text in Latin: at left, ‘Lux perpetua’ = ‘Eternal light’, and at right ‘Luceat eis’ = ‘to shine’. INDEX
22. NORTH NAVE WINDOWS
In the North wall are five of the very fine windows in this Cathedral. From left we see: • Saint Edmund Campion, S.J., (1540 – 1581) – an English Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr; • The Queen of Sheba comes to visit King Solomon; • Moses defeating the Egyptians at the Crossing of the Red Sea; • Samuel and Eli the priest; • Joseph being lowered into a well by his brothers.
23. NORTH NAVE WALL
These are further views of the North nave wall, taken from near the nave altar. They show the positions of the various memorial plaques.
24. SELECTED WALL PLAQUES
Here are a few of the many memorial plaques in this Cathedral. It is interesting to read about the Aldershot Garrison. Established in 1854, Aldershot is the home of the British Army although smaller than in previous years. The garrison was established when the War Department bought a large area of land near to the village of Aldershot, with the objective of establishing a permanent training camp for the British Army. Over time, this camp grew into a military town and continues to be used by the Army to the present day. It is home to the headquarters of the Army’s Support Command, and it is also the administrative base for the 101st Logistic Brigade. The garrison plays host to around 70 military units and organisations.
25. NORTH NAVE EAST, ORGAN CONSOLE
At the Eastern end of the the North nave wall we come to the exit door to the North porch, and nearby the organ console. The Allen organ currently used in the cathedral originally belonged to the noted organist Carlo Curley and was obtained in 2014 after his death. This organ came into use in place of the older Cathedral organ,in large part because asbestos was found in the organ pipe gallery.
26. NORTH WALL MEMORIALS
There are so many memorials in this Cathedral! The brass plate tells that the Stations of the Cross were erected by the Catholic Officers of the Royal Army Service Corps as a memorial to officers and men of the Corps who laid down their lives in WWII.
27. NORTH WALL STATIONS 11 – 7
These Stations of the Cross are very attractive. They are a series of fourteen pictures representing successive incidents during Jesus's progress from his condemnation by Pilate to his crucifixion and burial. Shown are Stations 11 – 7. From the right these show: • 7. Jesus falls for the second time; • 8. Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem; • 9. Jesus falls for the third time; • 10. Jesus is stripped of His clothes; • 11. Jesus is nailed to the cross.
28. NORTH WALL STATIONS 6 – 1
These earlier Stations show from the right: • 1. Jesus is condemned to death; • 2. Jesus carries His cross; • 3. Jesus falls for the first time; • 4. Jesus meets His mother Mary; • 5. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the cross; • 6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus.
29. SOUTH NAVE WALL
We now cross the nave and turn our attention to the South wall. As mentioned earlier, the Western end of this wall is partitioned off as part of a chapel.
30. SOUTH NAVE WINDOWS
Closest to us are three windows. From left these show: • Jesus walking on the water. This is appropriate for a memorial window for two lieutenants who were drowned at sea. • Jesus bearing his Cross, with the text ‘Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows’(Isaiah 53:4). • Jesus being baptized by John.
31. SOUTH NAVE WALL
These more direct views of the South nave wall show St Patrick along with many memorial tiles and three Books of Remembrance.
32. ST PATRICK, MEMORIAL
Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the ‘Apostle of Ireland’, he is the primary patron saint of Ireland. The shield is an interesting memorial to those who died at Dunkirk in 1940.
33. SOUTH WALL MEMORIALS
At a lower level on this wall is an array of memorial tiles in memory of the officers of the Royal Army Service Corps, and a cabinet containing three Books of Remembrance.
34. BOOKS OF REMEMBRANCE
The Books contain the names of military personnel wo died in the First World War, the Second World War, and in the intervening years.
35. SOUTH WALL PLAQUES
There are just a few memorial brass plates on this wall. They remember members of the police force who gave their lives in South Africa, and members of the Royal Army Servce Corps (Air Dispatch), ‘who gave their lives in aid of the Civil Power’.
36. SOUTH WALL STATIONS 14 – 12
This series of red marble tablets set in a carved Portland stone frieze commemorate members of the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) who died on active service 1882 - 1920. These final Stations of the Cross are (from right): • 12. Jesus dies on the cross; • 13. Jesus is taken down from the cross; • 14. Jesus is placed in the tomb.
38. BLESSED SACRAMENT CHAPEL WINDOWS
The Cathedral has many fine stained glass windows of saints and Biblical scenes by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. The two windows at left are on the nave South wall; the two right windows are in the West wall. They show (from left): • English martyr St Margarita Plantagenet (1473 – 1541); • The Annunciation to Mary; • English martyr St Thomas More (1478 – 1535); • English martyr St John Fisher (1469 – 1535).
39. BLESSED SACRAMENT CHAPEL LOOKING EAST
This small chapel is simply furnished with altar and retable. On the column at left is an image of Christ(?) breaking bread, and to the right of the altar is a covered tabernacle with crucifix and lamp above. The brass panels in the lower part of the screen were originally in the altar rail of the Church of St Michael and St Sebastian.
40. SACRED HEART
Outside the chapel at the West end is a statue of The Sacred Heart. The devotion to the Sacred Heart is one of the most widely practised and well-known Roman Catholic devotions, taking the heart of the resurrected Body as the representation of the love of God through Jesus Christ.
