Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Ripponden
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 16th October 1920
Attended by: Rev. David Hinchcliff
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2615
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Current location
Stones Methodist Church
Rochdale Road
Ripponden
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX6 4LA
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 03009 18935
Denomination: Methodist
- Previous locations
- Millbank Methodist Church
Ripponden
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HS6 3ED
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 03600 21400
Denomination: Undefined - The Triangle Methodist Church
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined - Show More (1)
- Millbank Methodist Church
- Description
- Brass plaque mounted on oak board. Black incised lettering. Corinthian columns in relief at either side with pediment at top
- Inscription
- MILL BANK METHODIST CHURCH/ CLOSED SEPTEMBER 29TH 1963/ IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS/ OF THIS CHURCH, WHO DIED FOR FREEDOM/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ (Names)/ THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT/ BE NOT AFRAID OF THEM WHICH KILL THE BODY/ BUT ARE NOT ABLE TO KILL THE SOUL
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Balmforth, William
Bottomley, John Wm
Carter, Willie
Cheetham, Taylor
Foster, Stanley
Lumb, Walton
Lumb, William
Wolfenden, Frank
See details for all 8 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 8
Served and returned: 0
Died: 8
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, surname
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak - Plaque
Measurements: height 710mm, width 740mm
Materials: Bronze
- Backboard
- 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
- Stones Methodist Church
- Reference
- Halifax Weekly Guardian 23 Oct 1920
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 711
- Hebden Bridge Times 22nd Oct 1920
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