The portable communion set seen [above]  was used by Reverend Lumley Green-Wilkinson to administer communion to the members of the 7th and 8th battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps and the 7th and 8th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, when he was Chaplain to the 41st Infantry Brigade in the 14th (Light) Division whilst serving in Ypres salient during 1915. This period included the German offensive at Hooge on 30/31 July when the brigade suffered over 1,000 casualties.*

*Information next to the communion set

Above the Thornton brass is a sculpture designed by Stephen Cox.  It represents a broken Communion wafer and the meniscus of a cup of Communion wine.

high up on the back of the reredos, is a curious sculpture of two discs.  The top one, in Egyptian alabaster, represents a broken Communion wafer while the second, in Roman imperial porphyry, represents the meniscus (the flat surface) of a cup of Communion wine.  Both types of stone have been quarried for thousands of years in Egypt, first by the Pharaohs and then by the Romans, and so both are directly linked to the actual time and place of Christ’s earthly life.*

*From the Cathedral of St Nicholas guidebook.