In 1845 the inhabitants of Glencalvie were evicted to make way for sheep farming. Many of the people took refuge in the churchyard at Croick sheltering in the lee of the church building rather than in the church itself, which to them might have been sacrilegious. As witness to their eviction from their native glen some scratched their names on the glass of the east window – a poignant reminder of the hardship and uncertainty of the times.
