Chester, University Chapel

Title: 'Commemorating the 175th Anniversary'

Date: 2015

Design by: Roy W. Coomber

Size of each light: 430mm wide x 1850mm + 3 tracery panels

Description: The top tracery features a star, referencing Bishop Sumner. Other tracery lights include elements from the coats of arms of two founder members: a gold stag’s head for Edward Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, and a black martlet for William Ewart Gladstone.

In the left light, Mt. Snowdon marks the 175th anniversary, alongside the University of Chester coat of arms with the motto “Qui docet in doctrina.” Below are Victorian craft tools, representing those used by early students, and at the base, the Houses of Parliament.

The right light includes the Chester Rose, the original college building, and symbols of science and learning: a Crookes radiometer, a scroll inscribed “Scientia,” and pen and ink. Medicine is represented by a cross with an entwined snake. At the base is St Edward’s Crown, flanked by the inscriptions “Victoria 1839” and “Elizabeth II 2014.”