St Philip and St James' Parishioners

• First World War (1914-1918)
  Total names on memorial: 40
  Served and returned: 0
  Died: 40
  Exact count: yes
  Information shown: Initials, surname, decorations, rank, military unit
  Order of information: Mainly alphabetical by surname
• Second World War (1939-1945)
  Total names on memorial: 4
  Served and returned: 0
  Died: 4
  Exact count: yes
  Information shown: Initials, surname, decorations, rank, military unit
  Order of information: Undefined

• Chapel
  Measurements: Undefined
  Materials: Stone
• Plaques / Panels with names
  Measurements: Undefined
  Materials: Wood - Oak

• Church of St Philip and St James with boundary wall and gates
• Grade II*
• This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
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• Wooden wall plaque
• WMO ID: 147239
• Condition: Good [last updated on 27-11-2017]
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Comments: In 1919 the conversion of the south transept into a Memorial Chapel was carried out by Messrs R. L Boulton & Sons, who made the altar, altar rails and panels bearing the names of parishioners who had died in World War 1; all were constructed from English oak. On 4/12/1919 the Gloucestershire Echo reported that the Chapel had been dedicated the previous day, and commented that, in order to complete the work by adding a new reredos, "at least £100 beyond the £400 already expended will be required".
Memorial: c£400

• The Gloucestershire Echo reported on 5/9/1919 that a faculty had been granted for the erection of a war memorial in Leckhampton: "To the Rev. K. A. H. Hay. vicar SS. Philip and James, to convert the south-eastern corner of the church into a war memorial chapel, involving the re-arrangement of the seats and flooring and the provision of a small altar, with altar rails, and the fixing of oak panels to the wall each side of the altar, bearing the names of the fallen in raised lettering, the lower part of the panel to form a frontal case. The cost will be defrayed by subscriptions". (A report of the dedication of the newly-created memorial chapel in the south transept was printed on page 3 of the Gloucestershire Echo on 4/12/1919. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000320/19191204/024/0003 )
• The Cheltenham War Memorial Archive website's record of this memorial can be found at the following website: remembering.cheltenhamremembers.org.uk/st_phillips_memorial-2 . It records the other known locations where casualties named on the Parish memorial are also commemorated (including Gloucestershire Constabulary's former Chief Constable Richard Chester Chester-Master, who is commemorated on a separate plaque within the Church - see our reference 93510, and also on the Cirencester War Memorial. He is also named on the Gloucestershire Constabulary's WW1 memorials).
• The War Memorials Trust's reference for the WW1 memorial panels is WMO 147239, see www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/147239
• St Philip and St James Church itself is Listed Grade II* by Historic England, under reference 1245772, see historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1245772
• On 5/1/1924 the Cheltenham Chronicle's review of the previous year mentioned that the Bishop of Gloucester had dedicated the new reredos at St Philip and St James on 18/12/1923. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000518/19240105/052/0007
• On 31/7/1923 the Gloucester Citizen announced that a faculty had been granted at the Consistorial Court "To the Rev. Richard Arthur Hay Hay, perpetual curate of the parish of St. Philip and St. James, Leckhampton, to erect a reredos in the war memorial chapel of the church, to consist of a painting of the supper at Emmaus by Mr. Eadie Reid. enclosed in a framework of carved oak designed by Mr. L. W. Barnard. The present oak panels hearing the names of the fallen, will be slightly raised. The proposed inscription is "In loving memory of Rowland and Emma Robinson, 'In sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.' " The cost of the work will be defrayed by Miss F. Robinson and Mrs. O. M. Williams" (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000325/19230731/043/0005 )