Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Reredos or screen
- District
- Croydon
- Town
- Coulsdon
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 10773
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Current location
On the upper step leading from nave to chancel
St Andrew's Church
Woodmansterne Road
Coulsdon
Croydon
Greater London
CR5 2DG
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 29650 59800
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Screen of black & gilt wrought iron work. Dedicatory plaque is on the face of the upper step from the nave to the chancel. (See WMR 767 for suspended rood)
- Inscription
- IN LOVING MEMORY OF ARTHUR THOMAS CHAPMAN CAPT 3RD EAST SURRY REGT 1ST HAMPSHIRE WHO FELL IN ACTION IN FLANDERS ON APRIL 26TH 1915/ HE WAS A PIONEER OF MODERN COULSDON THIS SCREEN WAS ERECTED BY WIDOW RELATIVES & FRIENDS
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Chapman, Arthur Thomas
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank,year died,regiment,place of death,relationships,additional
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Reredos
Measurements: height 1330MM, width 1340MM
Materials: Wrought Iron
- Reredos
- 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
- At the Going Down of the Sun... An Account of Croydon's War Memorials. Author Ronald COX. Published 1992. -- Reference C49
- War Memorials On Line: www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/261231/ - Accessed January 2021
- Purley in the Great War - sites.google.com/site/purleyandthegreatwar/local-memorials - Accessed 28 October 2020
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