
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Sowerby Bridge
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 24th May 1921
Attended by: Canon Ivens, Rev. M.C. Elphinstone and Dr W.W. Longford
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2612
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Current location
To right of chancel arch.
Christ Church
Wharf Street
Sowerby Bridge
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX6 2LB
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 06221 23720
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Wall mounted white marble tablet with Nowy-headed alabaster surround. Black lettering. Dark marble Corinthian columns at either side of tablet. Relief carving of laurel wreath at top centre. Cross within. Additional WW2 names on plaque below.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN/ CONNECTED WITH THIS CHURCH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ (Names)/ REMEMBER ALSO/ Names)/ 1939-1945
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Aspin, J A
Aspin, J W
Baily, S G
Barraclough, J A
Barron, T
Bottomley, T
Callaghan, W G
Coble, H
Cockroft, A
Cross, A E
See details for all 64 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 4
Served and returned: 0
Died: 4
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Initial, surname
Order of information: Surname alphabetically - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 64
Served and returned: 0
Died: 64
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Initial, surname
Order of information: Surname alphabetically
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: height 870mm, width 1130mm
Materials: Marble - White
- Tablet
- Listing information
- CHRIST CHURCH
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Costs
Site: Unknown
Memorial: Unknown- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Vicar & church wardens of Christ Church
- Reference
- Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion, www.calderdalecompanion.co.uk/x268.html, accessed 31/12/22
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 708
- Halifax weekly Guardian (28th May 1921)
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