Memorial details

Memorial type
Chapel or Church: Restoration or extension
District
St Helens
Town
Wargrave
County
Merseyside
Country
England
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
62495

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Current location

In the church hall
previously the Chancel
at the East end of the church
Parish Church of Emmanuel
Church Drive
Wargrave Rd
Wargrave
St Helens
Merseyside
WA12 8RW
England

OS Grid Ref: SJ 58452 94507
Denomination: Church of England

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Description
The Chancel was built as the War Memorial. This is the dedicatory tablet inside the church. The memorial is in sections, with the main structure being of a grey, mottled marble, the upper section being a corniced pediment, below which is the Dedication, inscribed on white marble, which is separated from the main section, bearing the names, by a thin layer of the grey marble. Below the names two further thin strips of grey marble sit above and below a white strip bearing a text. Above the tablet sits a lion guardant on the King's Crown, with the Royal motto set in scrolls to each side, executed in white marble. The whole is on a dark grey marble backboard.
Inscription
This Chancel was built in honoured memory of those connected with/ this Parish Church who gave their lives for their country 1914-1919/ (Names)/ "All these were honoured in their generation and were the glory of their times"
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Barcroft, James
Bennett, F
Bennett, Peter
Bowes, James B
Burns, Arthur
Burns, Peter
Clarke, Oliver
Collingwood, C
Corlett, S G
Eaves, M
See details for all 31 names
Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 31
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 31
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: Rank, forename and/ or initials, surname, unit
    Order of information: Rank, forename and/ or initials, surname, unit
Components
  • Chapel
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Stone etc.
  • Tablet
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Marble
Listing information
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Responsibility
The Parochial Church Council
Reference
  • Wigan Observer, May 1920: Report of Liverpool Consistory Court on proposed memorial tablets, this one for the fallen, and one for those who returned (WMR 62494). Recommended that for the one for those who returned be installed in the church porch, as 'the Church of England has always discountenanced the commemoration, within a church, of living persons.'

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