 The patrons wanted to name it St. John the Apostle\s presumably as some sort of riposte to the Presbyterians with St. John's Kirk named after the Baptist but Bishop Torry named it after St. Ninian who brought the Christian message to Scotland in the 5th century and it was the first to be consecrated in the UK following the reformation.Stained glass to the design of Butterfield and made by Alexander Gibbs was added in 1876 to the east window showing ‘The one seated on the throne’ from Revelation 4