Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Organ or organ part
- District
- Wigan
- Town
- Aspull
- County
- Greater Manchester
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- Wordsworth & Sons
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 31/10/1920
Attended by: Archdeacon of Liverpool, Rev. FC Wallis, Vicar
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 66749
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Current location
St Elizabeth of Hungary Church
Aspull
Wigan
Greater Manchester
WN2 1PR
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 62021 07578
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Organ with associated brass dedication plaque, which has a double line inscribed border, and all lettering inscribed in black. The organ which was dedicated in 1920 was replaced in 1936, and by August 2018 that organ had been dismantled, lacking inner workings or pipes behind the facade.
- Inscription
- +/THIS ORGAN WAS ERECTED IN MEMORY OF / THE FALLEN AND AS A THANKOFFERING TO / ALMIGHTY GOD / FOR THE RESTORATION OF PEACE / AFTER THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 / LAUS DEO/ ALL SAINTSTIDE 1920
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Organ or Organ part
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
- Organ or Organ part
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
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- Condition
- Church Organ
- WMO ID: 259284
- Condition: Poor [last updated on 26-02-2020]
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- Costs
Comments: The target set was £843, but enough was raised to increase the number of stops on the organ.
Memorial: £900- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Wigan Observer, 29/09/1936 - report of the Dedication of a new organ - the previous one only having lasted 16 years.
- Wigan Observer, 04/11/1920: Report of the Dedication of the organ, replacing a smaller one which had been in use for sixteen years.
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