Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Chorley
- Town
- Adlington
- County
- Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 12/03/1921
Attended by: Earl of Crawford, mourners, ex-Servicemen, local Councillors
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 18600
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Current location
In the porch under the tower which was built as the WW1 Memorial WMR 18605
St Paul's Church
Railway Road
Adlington
Chorley
Lancashire
PR6 9QR
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 60338 13491
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Cast bronze plaque, with a border of climbing roses, and a half-relief figure of an Angel, looking in sorrow at the lists of the fallen alongside her.
- Inscription
- To the Glory of God and/ in grateful memory of/ the men from the Parish of/ Adlington who laid down/ their lives in the Great/ War, 1914 - 1919./ (Names)/ "For ever honour'd, for ever mourn'd".
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ainscough, Thomas
Alker, Leonard
Alker, William
Atherton, John William
Baines, John William
Ball, Eli
Ball, Richard
Bamber, Walter
Banks, Harold
Banks, Herbert
See details for all 108 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 117
Served and returned: 0
Died: 117
Exact count: yes
Information shown: forename names, surname
Order of information: forename names, surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height C 5FT, width C 3.5FT
Materials: Bronze
- Plaque
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- ST PAULS CHURCH
- Reference
- Wigan Observer: 15/03/1921: Account of the unveiling of the plaque, and a statement about the fuller extent of the proposals for the Parish's Memorials (see WMR 18605). States that 110 names were on the plaque - rather than the 108 counted.
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