Artist/Designer: James Benson

Location: Parish Church, Ancrum

Subject: Faith (Abraham), Hope (St Paul) and Charity (Dorcas)

Date: 1907

Photographer: Ian Lees

Faith, Hope and Charity are most usually depicted as 3 statuesque women holding a cross (for faith), an anchor (for hope), and a heart (for charity). Presumably the choice of these 3 figures from the Bible reflected the interests of the man they commemorate, a Church of Scotland minister. At one point Benson worked for Blythswood Stained Glass in Glasgow. Before that, he ran his own company to which he recruited his milkman, William Arnott!