Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Organ or organ part
- District
- Shrewsbury And Atcham
- Town
- Eaton Constantine
- County
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 27 July 1920
Attended by: Bishop Suffragan of Stafford
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 13988
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Current location
St Mary's Parish Church
4 Severn View
Eaton Constantine
Shrewsbury And Atcham
Shropshire
SY5 6RG
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 59727 06320
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- A chamber organ with a dedicatory plaque.
- Inscription
- THIS ORGAN WAS PRESENTED TO/ EATON CONSTANTINE CHURCH/ BY COLONEL & MRS WOLSELEY-JENKINS OF CHARLTON HILL/ IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF THEIR ONLY SON/ CAPTAIN A W WOLSELEY-JENKINS/ 3RD BATTN. RIFLE BRIGADE/ WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE/ WHILE GALLANTLY LEADING HIS MEN/ ON SEPTEMBER 25TH 1915/ BRIGHT, BRAVE, TENDER AND TRUE.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Wolseley-jenkins
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, initial, surname, regiment, manner of death, place of death, date of death, additional
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Memorial
- 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
- Captain A Wolseley-Jenkins Memorial Organ
- WMO ID: 250035
- Condition: Good [last updated on 26-02-2020]
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- History
- ACCORDING TO LETTER DATED 26 APRIL 1999 THE ORGAN WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT IN 1762, ALTERED IN THE 19TH CENTURY AND FINALLY RESTORED TO ORIGINAL SPECIFICATIONS IN 1988. GIVEN TO THE CHURCH BY THE JENKINS FAMILY
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- 'Local News in Brief: A new organ, presented by Colonel Wolseley Jenkins...', Wellington Journal & Shrewsbury News, 3 July 1920, p. 6.
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