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"The Good Shepherd
& Lamb of God"

South wall of Chancel

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The next window is another by Nathaniel Bryson installed during the 1905 restoration costing approximately £45. It depicts "The Good Shepherd & Lamb of God". It is inscribed with two phrases from the bible "Behold the lamb of God.", and "I am the good Shepherd." It also has an Inscription "In loving memory of Eliza age 8 years and James aged 4½ years, died 11th March 1876, Children of John and Elizabeth Herdman, Hazelbank, Murrayfield."

Hazelbank was on the site of Distillers PLC, Ellersley Road, Edinburgh. James and Eliza were the children of John and Elizabeth Herdman, I thought it was interesting that two children should die on the same date. I followed this up in the Record Office and the death records showed they both died within hours of each other in the early hours of the morning on the 11th March 1876 from scarlet fever!

Note the Latin inscription again, this time on the staff which of course means "Behold the lamb of God". ("Behold the lamb of God." - St.John Chapter 1 v29. "I am the good Shepherd." - St.John Chapter 10 v11)

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