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Returning to the North Transept, you see the Pulpit on your right. It
came from a church in Sussex and was donated to the Cathedral two years after the Great Fire.
Above it hangs a crucifix made of ironwood from the old Borneo Cathedral and presented in
1977 by Dean Rusted, who had served in Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia) for many years.
The Coats-of-Arms on the south wall, carved by Mr. James Crawford, a former Churchwarden,
are those of the Archbishops and Bishops who presided at the consecration of the first five
Bishops of Newfoundland, namely A.G. Spencer, E. Feild, J.B.K. Kelly, L. Jones, and W.C.
White.
As you walk through the Transepts, please note how the design of the South Transept clerestory
windows and arches differs from that of the North, for instance in the number of lancets, their height and
width, type of mouldings (plain/scalloped), and ornament (beaks/roses). The same principle of
variation also holds for the great windows of the transepts, both containing plain glass. The
North Transept's has six lights and three roses, while the South's has only three,
surmounted by a simpler rose. The south window was originally intended to be filled by a
depiction of fishermen in the Sea of Gennesaret (Galilee), with funding supplied by individual
Newfoundland fishermen, but the First World War and other economic hardships prevented its
execution.
On the Southwest Pier of the transept crossing is found a bronze plaque commemorating the
Rev. Edward Carrington of Devon, England, who was Rector of the Cathedral from 1819 to
1839. The chancel (east) side of this pillar also bears a tablet recording the names of the men
from this Parish who gave their lives in the First World War (1914-1918). |

the Pulpit (69kb)

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