The Creation Window took three years from design to installation with Brown undertaking extensive research and developing over a hundred working drawings.

At the rear of the Nave the great central window depicts Christ rising from earth into a heavenly flower. The seven petals of the creation flower contain scenes of the seven days of creation as written in the Book of Genesis. A prism in the centre of the flower refracts white light into the separate colours of the rainbow, which fall and embrace Christ resurrected against the flower stem. The sky contains explosions of pohutakawa blooms, referring to the birth of the universe. Clematis flowers appear as children of the stars. Below Christ, Mary Magdalene holds a handkerchief and behind her, three women weep. A wounded World War II soldier, tended by a nurse, lies back suggesting the deposition of Christ.

The window on the right depicts the Maori/Polynesian contribution to New Zealand. The dominant theme is the bounty of the sea. The window on the left, with its gothic elements, stands for the European contribution to the Church in New Zealand. It depicts a contemporary Auckland with a symbolic ship in the harbour.

Reference: Creation Windows of the Auckland Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. Cathedral publication.