Identify and make additional notes about the following:

Australia/US memorial windows
Southern Tower to be dedicated to friendships made in Brisbane during WWII. Brisbane was the Australian base of allied forces for Pacific involvement.

Coats of Arms and wall of the Narthex
Trace the history of the Diocese of Brisbane through Diocese of Calcutta - Australia - Newcastle - to Brisbane

Needlework cushions
Designed by Queensland College of Art students & record Qld Flora & Fauna. Front pew cushions show connections between church & State.

Pulpit
Given in memory of Louis Hope, who started the sugar industry in Queensland; His nephew, Lord Hopetoun, the 1st Governor General of Queensland.

Deanery
The Colony of Qld was proclaimed in 1859 from this balcony. Residence of the 1st Governor until Government House was built.

Lady chapel
Williams Bustard 1884 - 1973. Stained Glass artist with significant collections in many Brisbane churches and paintings in the Qld Art Gallery. St John's has many of his windows and designs (Tryptich in Lady Chapel). 'Cartoon' style cushions designed by David Binns.

Guidons
3 guidons relating to the Light Horse Regiments of WWI. Many young farmers left horses behind in Australia, but rode both horses and camels in WWI during campaigns in the Middle East.

Foundation stone
Link with Australian Federation. Laid by the Duke of Cornwall & York, 22 may 1901 - in memory of his grandmother, Queen Victoria who had recently died.

High altar
The Mensa (altar top) is made from the Holy Island of Iona, Scotland. Link with ancient Celtic Christianity: St Columba & community date to C6th. Bishop Webber, 3rd Bishop of Brisbane & founder of this cathedral is buried here.

Cathedra - Archbishop's seat
Indicates a sense of Episcopal (re bishops) order in the Anglican Church.

Choir stalls
Medieval carving style, carved in Qld Silkwood by Qld father & son during the late 20th Century. Figures tell stories of early missionary bishops in the Sth Pacific & Australia. (N.B. Bishop Patterson - martyred in Melanesia) and Anglo - Celtic Saints.

Bishop Tyrell in a window above the choir stalls
When the church in Brisbane was part of Newcastle, Bp Tyrell was the Bishop. He is the ancestor of a family winery in the Hunter Valley, Tyrell Wines.

Unity candle - a focus on Ecumenism
Commemorates the visit of the Pope to the Archbishop of Canterbury 1982.

Windows in Southern Chapels link with Celtic origins of Christianity
St Patrick, St Ninian, St David, St Cuthbert, St Aidan, St Chad.

Military Standards
History of armed forces - respect for members of a regiment reflected in the honour given to flags. (N.B. different wars & battles represented).

WWI Windows in Southern Transept
Reflect a theme of Sacrifice & Service to others - images of WWI nurses, soldiers, sailors & airmen interspersed with biblical characters, Melchizedek, Abraham & Isaac. The fact that these windows were placed here after WWI speaks of the community coming to terms with the enormous loss of life in this war.

Florence Nightingale, Edith Cavell, Elizabeth Fry, New Guinea Martyrs WWII
These windows focus on service to the community by famous women.

Stone from All Hallows by the Tower, London
Destroyed in the Battle of Britain. Link with Tubby Clayton - born in Maryborough - started Toc H.

Crucifix in Baptistry
Memorial to a sailor drowned in the Voyager disater - 1962 - possibly the greatest naval disaster in peacetime Australia.

Fossiliferous Limestone - legs of the Font
350 Million years old - fossils visible - older than our Great Barrier Reef. A link with God's creation story.