Stained Glass of Percy Bacon & Brothers

Morningside Parish Church. West Window. 1905.

Morningside Parish Church. West Window. 1905.
From left to right: Raising of Lazarus | Sermon on the mount | Feeding the multitude | sending forth the disciples.

Morningside Parish Church. West Window. 1905.
Tracery lights: Angels in the canopies hold scrolls: Left: "I am the Resurrection and the Life". Right: The harvest truly is plentiful, But the labourers are few.
The angels in the upper tracery hold scrolls: Left: In the beginning was the word. Right: And the word was [with?] God. Beneath the central angel: The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.

Morningside Parish Church. West Window. 1905. Top of left light.
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Morningside Parish Church. West Window. 1905.
Detail of the elaborate canopies.

Morningside Parish Church. West Window. 1905.
Top of right light.

Morningside Parish Church. West Window. 1905.
Tracery, left.

Morningside Parish Church. West Window. 1905.
Tracery, right.

Morningside Parish Church. West Window. 1905.
Tracery, centre detail.

Morningside Parish Church. West Window. 1905.
Central predella: Left: He taught them as having authority: Right: They need not depart. Give ye meat to eat..

West Window: Scenes in the Life of Our Lord. 1905.

Posted 14 February 2025.

The window in the west end of the church is high on the wall, and above the west gallery. It is of four lights with tracery. The main subjects running across the centre of the lights, and under Percy Bacon's trademark fussy and elaborate architectonic canopies, framed with wide columns, are:

Left: The raising of Lazarus.
Ctr left: The Sermon on the mount.
Ctr right: The feeding of the multitude.
Right: Sending forth the twelve disciples.

The lights are separately dedicated, but the inscriptions are obscured by the top of the gallery seats. However, the Aberdeen Express and Journal obliges:¹

Left: Gifted by a member of the congregation in memory of his wife:
2 Ctr lights: Memorial to the Rev Duncan Campbell, who was minister of the church from 11th June 1894 until his death on 20th July 1903.
Right: A thanks offering to mark the 21st anniversary of the congregation's existence.

The window was unveilved on 7th May 1905.²

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1. Aberdeen Press and Journal - Tuesday 09 May 1905, p7.
2. Ibid.