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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Wear Valley
- Town
- Crook
- County
- Durham
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 71457
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Current location
Dawson Street United Reformed Methodist Church
Dawson Street
Crook
Wear Valley
Durham
Dl15 8NF
England
OS Grid Ref: NZ 16602 35524
Denomination: Nonconformist
- Description
- White Marble Plaque, rectangular, with dome in centre, resting on a black pattress which echoes the shape. At centre top is a wreath raised in half relief encircling a cross within a crown. On the ribbon under the wreath are the words “Faithful unto death”. The names are listed in three columns. Lettering is incised and blackened, using Old English lower case lettering for the dedication, elaborate Roman capitals for the names and lower case italics for the quotation at the bottom.
- Inscription
- This tablet is placed here by the Congregation in grateful / Memory of the Men of this Church who fell in the / Great War 1914-1919./[names]/Their name liveth for ever.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Armstrong, A
Auton, W
Braithwaite, F
Burnip, Ag
Cooke, Jw
Cummins, T
Dalton, Wg
Dowson, T
Heslop, W
Hutchinson, W
See details for all 22 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 22
Served and returned: 0
Died: 22
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - White - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Black
- Tablet
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. Please check back as we are adding more names to the database.
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