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Church Building St. Mary’s, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, was dedicated in 1858, ten years after the congregation was founded. Over the years, the church has been extended and improved. In 1994, a major restoration was approved. With substantial grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Historic Scotland and the Scottish Episcopal Church, along with local support and continuing work by the congregation, the essential repairs to the stonework, roofs and stained glass windows were undertaken. Interior decoration, the restoration of the reredos (John Duncan 1886 - 1945) and the refurbishment of the halls and kitchen followed. The work was led by Howard Price, a member of the congregation. A service of Thanksgiving and Celebration was held in December 2002. At present, we are raising funds to refurbish the organ. Recently a couple of glass negatives were found at the back of a cupboard in the church. These are the prints taken from them.
We think this is a photograph of the reredos when it was dedicated on Christmas Eve 1917. It was designed to fit in with Robert Lorimer’s panelling of 1911. The reredos was painted by John Duncan (1886 - 1945). The central panel represents Christ as King of Kings. He is flanked by the four Archangels, from left to right, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael and Michael. (Click on the image to enlarge - a full size image (2964 x 2368 pixels) can be downloaded as a 3.2 Mb zip file by clicking this link)
We reckon the photograph of the church was taken at the same time. It lacks the Chancel Screen which was dedicated as the War Memorial in 1921. (Click to download 6.3 Mb zip of full image (2382 x 2975 pixels)) |
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