At our recent symposium in Sacred Heart Church in Cumbernauld we were joined by Jim Belkeviz, who as a teenage school leaver had worked for Sadie Mc Lellan during the manufacture of the dalle de verre windows – those spectacular walls of concrete and glass that turn the stark architecture of Sacred Heart Church into a jewelled casket of spiritual light. We asked Jim to write down his memories as he is one of the very few people who has been an assistant to Sadie, who normally preferred to work alone.

It’s nearly 20 years since Sarah Fadden Pritchard died in Canada at the age of 92. She had retired there to her daughter Judith’s home after sixty years of working in the arts in Scotland. Most people know her better as Sadie McLellan.
Born in Milngavie in 1914, her career began under the strong influence of her father, an idealistic socialist. (The Herald published a deeply moving account of his return from the Great War which is well worth reading).