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The last window is in the entrance, the seventeenth-century porch projecting from the tower.

It is entitled, "Abide with us for it is towards evening and the day is far spent." It shows Simeon and Cleopas at Emmaus, asking Jesus to stay the night. We have already seen the next part of this story in the Great East Window where Jesus identifies himself, "In the breaking of the bread." It is another 1905 Alexander Ballantine & Son window and would have cost approximately £30. It is as its inscription says, "In memory of Helen Ranstead Croal died 1904, wife of Henry L. Croal." Their gravestone, a top draped urn, is in the west part of the churchyard opposite the porch door.

Henry L. Croal was a house painter and in 1891 lived in Laburnum Row, St.John’s Road, he died at the age of 60 on the 15^th September 1905. His wife Helen Ranstead died on the 29^th June 1904 at the age of 57. (St.Luke Chapter 24 v29)

We’re now at the door again.

And that where leave the church and its windows on a cold frosty night looking towards the lamp that Guided the early traveller away from the boggy, marshy grounds around Corstorphine.