The Daryl Ballantyne Tunbridge Memorial Window of the Soldiers' Chapel; St. Peter's Church of England - Sturt Street, Ballarat

            The Soldiers' Chapel of St. Peter's Church of England in Ballarat sits just to the left of the main nave and church altar.  It was built after the Great War (1914 - 1918) in honour of those in the St. Peters congregation who fought for, and sometimes made the supreme sacrifice, for King and country during the bloody conflict, and offers a quiet place separate from the main church for reflection and prayer.  The Soldiers' Chapel houses the William Hill and Son, Norman and Beard Ltd. organ, and also features several beautiful stained glass windows.

Although the Soldier's Chapel contains memorials to soldiers lost during the Great War, there is one which is for one son of Ballarat who came home; Daryl Ballantyne Tunbridge.

The Daryl Ballantyne Tunbridge Memorial Window features the Transfiguration of Jesus as its theme.  It depicts Jesus in red robes atop a green mountaintop at the point when he is transfigures and becomes radiant.  This is especially apparent when the sun pours through the stained glass, illuminating it and highlighting the yellow and golden yellow panes of glass.  The Daryl Ballantyne Tunbridge Memorial Window contained the unmistakable elongated design characteristics of Australian stained glass artist and fellow Great War veteran, Napier Waller.  

Daryl Ballantyne Tunbridge was a driver of Eighteenth Company of the Australian Army Service Corps.  He died on the 18th of August 1963 and is buried not too far from St. Peter’s Church of England in the Ballarat Old Cemetery in the family plot, alongside his father Walter Edward, mother Jane and his two sisters Hettie and Mary Lilian.  He outlived all of them, as well as his brother Geoffrey Ballantyne Tunbridge, who was a gunner of the Second Field Artillery Brigade of the Australian Army who was killed in action, at the tender age of just 21, on the 14th of March 1918 in Belgium.  There is a separate stained glass memorial window featuring the allegorical figure of Faith dedicated to Geoffrey Ballantyne Tunbridge just a few feet from Daryl Ballantyne Tunbridge’s memorial.

Mervyn Napier Waller (1893 – 1972) was an Australian artist. Born in Penshurst, Victoria, Napier was the son of William Waller, contractor, and his wife Sarah, née Napier. Educated locally until aged 14, he then worked on his father's farm. In 1913 he began studies at the National Gallery schools, Melbourne, and first exhibited water-colours and drawings at the Victorian Artists' Society in 1915. On 31 August of that year he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, and on 21 October at the manse of St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Carlton, married Christian Yandell, a fellow student and artist from Castlemaine. Serving in France from the end of 1916, Waller was seriously wounded in action, and his right arm had to be amputated at the shoulder. Whilst convalescing in France and England Napier learned to write and draw with his left hand. After coming home to Australia he exhibited a series of war sketches in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart between 1918 and 1919 which helped to establish his reputation as a talented artist.  Napier continued to paint in water-colour, taking his subjects from mythology and classical legend, but exhibited a group of linocuts in 1923. In 1927 Napier completed his first major mural for the Menzies Hotel, Melbourne. Next year his mural 'Peace after Victory' was installed in the State Library of Victoria. Visiting England and Europe in 1929 to study stained glass, the Wallers travelled in Italy where Napier was deeply impressed by the mosaics in Ravenna and studied mosaic in Venice. He returned to Melbourne in March 1930 and began to work almost exclusively in stained glass and mosaic. In 1931 he completed a great monumental mosaic for the University of Western Australia; two important commissions in Melbourne followed: the mosaic façade for Newspaper House (completed 1933) and murals for the dining hall in the Myer Emporium (completed 1935). During this time he also worked on a number of stained-glass commissions, some in collaboration with his wife, Christian.  Between 1939 and 1945 he worked as an illustrator and undertook no major commissions. In 1946 he finished a three-lancet window commemorating the New Guinea martyrs for St Peter's Church, Eastern Hill. In 1952-58 he designed and completed the mosaics and stained glass for the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. On 25 January 1958 in a civil ceremony in Melbourne Waller had married Lorna Marion Reyburn, a New Zealand-born artist who had long been his assistant in stained glass.

St. Peter's Church of England in Ballarat's main boulevard, Sturt Street, is an early and simple bluestone church which is given architectural interest by its elaborately detailed, later tower.

The imposing tower was commenced in 1864 to designs of architect C. D. Cuthbert in early English Gothic Revival style. Later additions include the west transept, which was completed in 1870, the tower which was completed in 1891, and east chapel which was completed in 1917. 

The tower is very elaborately detailed with a castellated parapet, paired belfry windows and trefoil windows, a motif used in the nave gable above the lancel windows. 

To this day, it still stands behind its original iron palisade fence.

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Taken on: May 11, 2013

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