Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Chapel or Church: Freestanding building
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Elland
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2835
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Current location
Bethesda Methodist Church
Victoria Road
Elland
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 10623 20797
Denomination: Methodist
- Previous locations
- Chapelstone House
Park Lane
Sowood Green
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX4 9JD
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 07697 18520
Denomination: Undefined
- Chapelstone House
- Description
- A Church building which was erected as a war memorial with a dedicatory board and painted inscription. The church is now a house and the board, which has metal wreaths in relief at the top two corners, is now stored separately.
- Inscription
- 1914 1918 / TO THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS BUILDING / IS DEDICATED / TO THE MEMORY OF / THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND FELL / IN THE / GREAT WAR / 1914 -1918
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: height 610mm, width 900mm
Materials: Wood - Church
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Board
- 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
- Church authorities
- Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 514
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