The Scott Windows were given by the late Mr Archibald Scott OBE, a lay canon of the Cathedral. They were made by Miller Studios of Dunedin after a design by W.A. Sutton CBE, a well-known Christchurch artist. The subject is Christ Transfigured, with Moses and Elias. The centre light shows Christ Transfigured, under a canopy comprising three coronets, containing the instruments of Passion, culminating in the Crown of Thorns at the top. The eight leaf forms contain (from the top) the Cabbage Tree, Nikau Palm, Lancewood, Kowhai, Flax, Hebe, Mount Cook Lily, and Mountain Daisy. The outer lights show Moses on the left and Elias on the right. The white arabesques are based on the uncurling fronds of the giant treefern, Cyathea Medullaris. The fern fronds forming the background represent ferns all native to the diocese, as are the trees and plants in the centre light.
The first flag shown is the Standard of the 47th American Air Force Division and the next the American Stars and Stripes. The first was given to the Cathedral, together with another Stars and Stripes, by Admiral Dufek in December 1955. The Canterbury Museum requested that the original flag be hung in their new Antarctic wing so the Commanding Officer of Operation Deep Freeze, Captain Van Reeth, replaced it with the present flag in October, 1975. The blue ensign was presented by Sir Edmund Hillary and dedicated to the bishop on 16 December, 1956. The ensign was then taken to Scott Base, McMurdo Sound, in HMNZS Endeavour. It was flown at the Base and subsequently presented to the Cathedral. The white ensign of the British Navy was laid up on 23 June 1968 when the New Zealand Navy selected its own White Ensign. The smaller flag with the anchor was the house flag of the Charlotte Jane, the first of the original Four Ships to arrive in Lyttelton Harbour. The Canadian and Australian flags were presented by their embassies as friendship flags. The flag of the United Nations hanging here was presented to this Cathedral in the spirit of Christ's new commandment; "Love your enemies; do good to them that persecute you," (Matthew 5:44). The flag was given on Pentecost Sunday, 1983. The Salvation Army flag was presented to the Cathedral on 20th May 1983 to commemorate the Salvation Army centenary in Christchurch. Its blue represents the purity of God, its red the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the colour yellow the fire of the Holy Spirit.
The Bishop's Throne, or cathedra, used by Bishop Henry John Chitty Harper, is now placed in the north transept below a large portrait of the bishop. The artist of the portrait is Arthur Von Megern. A memorial cenotaph, topped by a life-sized recumbent statue of Bishop Harper in full episcopal robes, is also placed in the north transept. The cenotaph was designed by Mountfort and the statue was carved by F.J. Williamson, Queen Victoria's private sculptor.
Dr Harper was the first Bishop of Christchurch and the second Primate of New Zealand. He arrived in New Zealand on Christmas Eve 1856, a man of 52 with a large family, and took charge of a diocese which stretched from the Hurunui River over the rest of the South Island, including south Westland. In 1864, he laid the foundation stone of the Cathedral, and in 1881 preached at the Consecration service. He resigned from the episcopate in 1889 and died on 28 December 1893. Bishop Harper is buried in the old Barbadoes Street Cemetery, Christchurch.
The cross was the first commission of Mr John Brunette when he started his own business and was the gift of the Cathedral Guild to Bishop Harper. It was given to the Cathedral by the wife of the second dean, a son of the bishop. The cross was to be made of silver and greenstone, but at the time silver was unprocurable in New Zealand. Mrs Brunette suggested her family tea service be melted down and used, she overcame her husband's protests by saying, "I shall always know where it is." It is now used only when the archbishop is present in the Cathedral.
The organ pipes visible above the flags were encased as a memorial to Sir Heaton Rhodes. The trumpet stop was a centenary gift in memory of Edith and John Christopher Bradshaw from members of their family. Dr Bradshaw was Organist and Master of the Choristers for 35 years.
Beside the Vestry doors there is a plaque in commemoration of Charles Foster Browne who was Organist and Master of the Choristers of this Cathedral from 1938 to 1976, the longest serving Director of Music of this Cathedral.
