Stained Glass Window 1939-45 Scottish Presbyterian

Scottish Presbyterian Church

United Reformed Church

The Church was closed in 1997 and was converted into a house in 1999.
The windows were removed To St Cuthbert’s by the Minister.

1939-45

Metal plaque.

Original plaque:
These four windows
were dedicated
in memory of the
Norham men
who fell in the war
1939-1945.

Lower plaque:
One of the four windows
and the dedicatory plaque
removed from
Norham United Reformed Church
before it closed in 1997.

Stained glass window of four lights, all identical, depicting the Burning Bush.

The one remaining in St. Cuthbert’s Church indicates that there were four arched windows, at the top of which was a roundel, depicting the burning bush, with the motto “Nec tamen consumebatur” (“But it was not consumed”).

A plaque 12 inches high x 16 inches wide  (30cms x 43cms) bears the names.

It is of brown metal, there is a single line border.

The names are listed in two columns divided by a vertical line.

Lettering is incised and whitened in Roman upper case throughout.

Beneath this – in St. Cuthbert’s church – is a brass plaque 8 inches high x 10 inches wide (20cms x 25cms) giving details of the transfer to St. Cuthbert’s.

The lettering is incised and whitened using Roman upper case.

1. One window was placed in Norham St.Cuthbert’s. The location of the others is not known.

2. Sheelagh Hume of Norham says that one window was rescued by local resident, Mr. G. Straughan, a plumber. The Parish Council later had this window placed in St. Cuthbert’s Church

3. Sheelagh Hume also attended the final service and took a photograph.

Photos in new location: Janet Brown

Northumberland Record Office
“Norham United Reformed Church – A Brief History” (by. J.B.) NRO 4254, P270.

Source of quotation:
“Nec tamen consumebatur”: Exodus 3:2 (The story of Moses and the Burning Bush)

Janet Brown;
Sheelagh Hume;
Tony Harding

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