page_title: Garden Island Naval Chapel
section_title: Windows
hierarchical_section_title: Garden Island Naval Chapel / Features / Main Chapel / Windows
caption_attribution_description: English: Royal Australian Navy: World War 2 Bathurst class corvette stained glass window at the Garden Island Naval Chapel, Sydney, Australia. Alpha and Omega symbols; names of the ships; mines (they were minesweeper corvettes). I took this picture in November 2006. Peter Ellis 19:10, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
context_page_description: The Garden Island Naval Chapel is a heritage-listed non-denominational Christian chapel located in the heritage-listed Garden Island Naval Precinct that comprises a naval base and dockyard in the inner eastern Sydney suburb of Garden Island in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. Housed in a building designed by James Barnet and built between built 1886 and 1887, the chapel was established in 1902 after conversion from the former sail loft and is the oldest Christian chapel of the Royal Australian Navy and has stained glass windows and plaques from that era to the present. The chapel was added to the Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 June 2004 and the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 12 November 2004.
  The building is the oldest on Garden Island, two-storey, built of stuccoed brick with stone sills, arches and columns. The original loft floor of timber remains, caulked with oakum and bitumen.
context_section_description: The main chapel has various stained glass windows, some naturally lit and others in cases with back-lights. This list circles the chapel to the right from the altar.
  Right of altar:
  Australian Submarine Flotilla (World War I): HMAS AE1 and HMAS AE2
  Right wall:
  the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne and the first three warships named HMAS Sydney with adjacent baptismal font
  Back wall & door:
  The Bathurst-class corvettes
  The door opens to a balcony with a bell to call worshipers
  Left side:
  The World War II cruisers HMAS Shropshire and HMAS Canberra
  Cruisers and small craft – Australia, Africa, and South Seas; World War I: HMAS Pioneer, HMAS Encounter, HMAS Psyche, HMAS Fantome, HMAS Protector, HMAS Una.
  Town class cruisers: HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Brisbane
  HM Australian Destroyer Flotilla 1914–1918: HMA Ships Yarra, Parramatta, Warrego, Huon, Swan, Torrens
  Behind the pulpit:
  Chaplain Vivian Ward Thompson BA, died 9 January 1943
  Australian Naval Reserve, WWI : RAN Reserve & RAN Volunteer Reserve – "Australia's first losses in the Great War were RANR personnel at Kaba Kaul, New Britain, 11 Sep 1914"
  Left of altar
  HMAS Australia
caption: Bathurst class corvette]] window; Alpha and Omega symbols; names of the ships.
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