Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Gate
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Shelf, Halifax
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2732
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Current location
Inside the chapel.
Bethel Chapel
Chapel Lane
Shelf
Halifax
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX3 7QY
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 12766 28917
Denomination: Methodist
- Description
- Wrought iron gate through wall with associated bronze plaque on wooden board.
- Inscription
- THIS GATE IS DEDICATED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ THOSE MEMBERS OF BETHEL/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING/ THE 1939-1945 WAR
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 250mm, width 460mm
Materials: Bronze - Gates
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wrought Iron
- 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
- Bethel Chapel Shelf World War Two Memorial
- WMO ID: 269527
- Condition: Good [last updated on 16-04-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Due to risk of vandalism, plaque removed from gate and taken inside chapel (1985).
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 302
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