Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Altar or altar part
- District
- Rossendale
- Town
- Haslingden
- County
- Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 13 December 1919
Attended by:
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 18710
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Current location
St Mary's (Immaculate Conception) Church
Bury Road
Haslingden
Rossendale
Lancashire
BB4 5PG
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 78848 23137
Denomination: Roman Catholic
- Description
- MARBLE SACRED HEART ALTAR WITH CARVED FIGURE OF CHIRST BELOW A CINQUE-FOIL ARCH AT CENTRE. PILLARS AT SIDES OF ARCH AND ON ALTAR FRONT BELOW. AN ASSOCIATED White Marble TABLET in brown marble frame WITH THE INSCRIPTION AND NAMES FOR WW1 IS MOUNTED ON ADJACENT WALL WITH A TABLET WITH WW2 INSCRIPTION ADDED BELOW-also white marble in brown marble frame. THERE IS A SMALL CRUCIFIX ABOVE THE WW1 INSCRIPTION, carved into the tablet.
- Inscription
- Tablet: OF YOUR CHARITY PRAY FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOULS OF/ (NAMES)/ WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN THE/ EUROPEAN WAR 1914 - 1919/ TO THEIR MEMORY THIS TABLET AND/ SACRED HEART ALTAR HAVE BEEN ERECTED/ BY THE PARISHIONERS DEC. 1919/ MAY THEY REST IN PEACE/ Tablet: IN LOVING MEMORY/ OF THOSE WHO DIED/ IN THE WAR YEARS/ 1939 - 1945/ MAY THEY REST IN PEACE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Allen, John T
Allen, Richard
Armitage, Henry
Austin, Thomas
Banks, Wilfrid
Bedford, Samuel
Bourke, Stephen
Brown, James E
Brown, John G
Burke, John T
See details for all 68 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 68
Served and returned: 0
Died: 68
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
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
- Altar
Measurements: height 1500mm, width 450mm
Materials: Marble - White - First World War memorial
Measurements: height 300mm, width 450mm
Materials: Marble - White - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Brown - Second World War memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - White - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Brown
- Altar
- 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
- Costs
Site: £600
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Photograph & Transcription-www.rossendale-fhhs.org.uk/files/war_memorials/st_marys_rc_haslingden.html
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