Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Font or font cover
- District
- Sefton
- Town
- Formby
- County
- Merseyside
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 15624
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Current location
On the font
Holy Trinity Church
Rosemary Lane
Formby
Sefton
Merseyside
L37 3HB
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 29666 07226
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Elaborately carved octagonal oak font cover with a pillar at each angle supporting flying buttresses which meet up to support the central feature - a Celtic cross surmounting a crown, supported by winged cherub heads. There are lilies carved between the pillars, above the carved inscription. The subject is also commemorated by four windows and a plaque in the former porch of the church (WMR 15628).
- Inscription
- This Font Cover/ is a Gift from Lce./ Corporal Harold/ Bennett Beardwood/ in Remembrance/ of the Children/ he Loved so well/ 1917
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Beardwood, Harold Bennett
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, forenames, surname
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Font cover
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Font cover
- 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 - Responsibility
- The Parochial Church Council
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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