The Fire Window in the Regiment Chapel of Manchester Cathedral. Credit: © Copyright David Dixon and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
In the north-east corner of Manchester Cathedral there is a large rectangular chapel. The focal point is a stained-glass window in the east wall, a vast arch of red, orange and yellow glass that suggests flames and destruction. On the altar frontal beneath it and completing the fire motif is a phoenix. In the Manchester Blitz of 1940 the cathedral was bombed and burned. The Fire Window commemorates both the long nights of destruction and the city’s resurrection out of the flames.
