The Craigiebuckler Windows

The stained glass windows in Craigiebuckler are something of which the congregation is justifiably proud representing, as they do, a unique collection of great artistic merit.

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The oldest of the windows, a series of six situated in the Chancel, showing the four Evangelists along with Elizabeth and Mary, were the gift of Sir George Reid RSA and were manufactured in the William Morris factory after a design of Sir George’s fellow artist, the leading pre-Raphaelite Sir Edward Burne-Jones.

In the Nave is a series of fourteen windows designed by the leading twentieth century artist, William Wilson. This series represents a complete design cycle by Wilson with, in the north windows a chronological set of six windows representing Old Testament Prophets, in the south windows a similar series of scenes from the life of Christ, and three windows forming the Great West Window depicting the Last Supper and Crucifixion. This scheme is a major work by the leading exponent of stained glass design and manufacture of his day.