Designed by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, this window was installed in 1902 by Ann Grieve, the widow of Peter Grieve, who had died in 1895, and of their daughter Lucy Ann who died in 1864 at the age of 12.
Peter was a well-known gardener and author, who is buried along with Ann (1822-1907) in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Culford. He was born in Berwickshire in 1811 and apprenticed at the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, before becoming head gardener at the Benyon family’s famous Culford Hall garden from 1847 to 1880.
In a single composition across two ‘lights’, this window shows the moment when St Mary Magdalene recognises Christ in the garden following his Resurrection, described in St John’s Gospel. Having found the tomb where he was laid empty (along with the two angels shown to the left), she is very upset and asks a man whom she takes to be the gardener where Christ is. When he says her name, ‘Mary’, she realises that the gardener is in fact Christ. This mistake is represented by the spade lying by the edge of the image.
Ann Grieve also donated a chair known as a Faldstool in her late husband’s memory. This is in the north aisle.