Memorial details

Memorial type
Church Fabric / Fitting: Reredos or screen
District
Harrow
Town
Hatch End
County
Greater London
Country
England
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Ceremony
  • Dedicated
    Date: 3 April 1921
    Attended by: REV C E GRENSIDE VICAR
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
11134

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Current location

St Anselms Church
Westfield Park
Hatch End
Harrow
Greater London
HA5 4JL
England

OS Grid Ref: TQ 12904 91361
Denomination: Church of England

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Description
Light oak stained and polished reredos capped by gilded fretwork band, runs across the east end of the church, returning along the north and south walls. Crucifix placed in the central section. Central panel flanked by timber flaming torches. 14 coats of arms carved at the top of the panelling on the wall around the reredos with named battlefield inscribed below each of them. On the north side, the inscription and names of the dead painted in gold on three vertical polished boards, forming part of the panelling. On the south side, incorporated into the two end panels, a chamfered frame with gilt paterae surrounds a recessed aumbry of similar panelling. The base of which forms projecting shelf which has a moulded lower edge and diagonal corners. A concave mid shelf with a tabernacle/box. The front carved design of the box includes a central halo'd Lamb of God supporting a pennant with a cross of St George.
Inscription
The reredos frieze shields with names of battlefields: Mons, Arras, Le Cateau, Messines-Armentieres, Neuve-Chappelle -Artois, Cambrai, Jutland, Amiens, Vimy-Byng, Chateau-Thierry, Zeebrugge-Ostend, Ypres, Passchendaele-Flanders, Loos. The memorial board: THESE MEN GAVE THEIR LIVES SERVING/ THE KING IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD/ 1914 - 1918/ Names/ TO THEIR MEMORY THIS REREDOS IS ERECTED/ + REQUIESCANT IN PACE +
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Adcock, George
Astridge, John Thomas
Atkinson, Fred
Atkinson, Richard Dermot
Barcock, William Charles
Bodenham, Charles James
Bond, Cecil William
Brown, George Lothian
Carden, Horace Edward
Carden, Jack Woodward
See details for all 41 names
Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 38
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 38
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: surname,forename
    Order of information: forename,surname
Components
  • Crucifix
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Wood - Oak
  • Reredos
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Wood - Oak
  • Panelling
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Wood
  • Board
    Measurements: height 2740mm
    Materials: Wood - Oak
Listing information
Condition
Costs

Site: £800

Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Sponsorship
Public
Responsibility
CHURCH COUNCIL
Reference
  • Anonymous, 'Memorial to Parishioners Fallen in the War', Pinner & Hatch End Parish Magazine, June 1918.
  • Anonymous, 'S. Anselm's Church: Original Photographs', Pinner & Hatch End Parish Magazine, 1920.
  • Anonymous, 'Requiem at St. Anselm's: Commemoration Service', Harrow Observer, 3 January 1919.
  • E. M. Ware, Pinner in the Vale - Papers in London Borough of Harrow Local History Collection.
  • Anonymous, 'St. Anselm's Reredos Dedicated: Hatch End Memorial', Harrow Observer, 8 April 1921.
  • Anonymous, 'Memorial Service: St. Anselm's Roll', Harrow Observer, 5 December 1919.
  • Anonymous, 'War Memorials', Harrow Observer, 19 July 1918.

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