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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Reredos or screen
- District
- Blackburn
- Town
- Feniscliffe, Blackburn
- County
- Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 28 February 1920
Attended by: Revd J Blackburn Brown- a former Vicar - Dedicated
Date: 28 February 1920
Attended by: Revd J Blackburn Brown- a former Vicar - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 51289
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Current location
St Francis' Church
St Francis Road
Feniscliffe
Blackburn
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB2 2TZ
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 661 267
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- REREDOS AND CHAPEL SCREEN WITH DEDICATORY OAK BOARD. LATIN CROSS AT THE TOP OF THE BOARD
- Inscription
- ROLL OF HONOUR/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN SACRED MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF THIS PARISH, WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR 1914 - 1919/ THE REREDOS AND CHAPEL SCREEN WERE ERECTED AS A TOKEN OF/ GRATITUDE AND LOVE BY PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS/ (Names)/ FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Aikey, William
Booth, Sebastian
Briggs, John J
Brown, James
Brunskill, Herbert
Brunskill, Walter
Byrom, Walter
Caunce, John
Clegg, James
Cook, William
See details for all 77 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 77
Served and returned: 0
Died: 77
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Reredos
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Unknown - Screen
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Unknown
- Reredos
- 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
- Costs
Memorial: £750
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Blackburn Times 6 March 1920
- Book-St. Francis Parish Church Feniscliffe, A Memorial to the Honoured Dead of Two World Wars. By Allan Barry and Allan Howard Barry.
- Blackburn Weekly Telegraph 6 March 1920
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