Memorial details

Memorial type
Chapel: Dedicated within church building
District
Manchester
Town
Manchester
County
Greater Manchester
Country
England
Commemoration
Flodden Campaign (1513)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
55631

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Current location

East end of North aisle
Duke of Lancaster's Regimental Chapel
formerly Derby Chapel
Manchester Cathedral
Cathedral Street
Manchester
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 1SX
England

OS Grid Ref: SJ 83883 98752
Denomination: Church of England

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Description
Chapel founded as a Thanksgiving for the safe return of James Stanley, Bishop of Ely who was a former Warden of the Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George in Manchester and Sir John Stanley from the Battle of Flodden Field. Known as the Derby Chapel, it was handed to the Manchester Regiment as a Regimental Chapel by the Earl of Derby in 1936. Army reorganisations in 1956 (merger of the Manchester Regiment with the King's (Liverpool) Regiment) and 2006 (Merger of the King's into the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment) led to successive changes in its name. The Chapel houses a number of War Memorials mostly dedicated to the Manchester Regiment, including the Shrines displaying the Rolls of Honour of The Manchester Regiment and the King's Regiment, along with other plaques and tablets. Most of the furnishings carry dedications, some of which qualify them as individual War Memorials. The Chapel was largely destroyed by enemy bombing in 1940, and there is a photographic display of the Chapel before and after that event. As part of the restoration a new East window was commissioned, which suffered damage in the 1996 bombing of Manchester city centre and was subsequently repaired.
Inscription
(Unknown)
Inscription legible?
yes
Commemorations
  • Flodden Campaign (1513)
    Total names on memorial: 2
    Served and returned: 2
    Died: 0
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: surname, forename,additional
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Chapel
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Stone
Listing information
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Responsibility
The Cathedral Chapter
Reference
  • The Chapel of the Manchester Regiment and the King's Regiment by Bonner, Robert Unknown

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