Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Reredos or screen
- District
- Oxford
- Town
- Oxford
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 31924
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Current location
RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE ALTAR
HERTFORD COLLEGE CHAPEL
Catte Street
Oxford
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3BW
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 51612 06426
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- MARBLE REREDOS WITH DEDICATORY FIVE-COLUMNED MARBLE TABLET MOUNTED ONTO A WOODEN BACKBOARD. CENTRE PANEL OF THE TABLET HAS A BRASS PLAQUE ON IT AND THERE IS A STAG'S HEAD FRAMED IN FRONDS ON THE PLAQUE. THE REREDROS DEPICTS CHRIST ON THE CROSS WITH MARY AND ANOTHER FIGURE LOOKING UP AT HIM.
- Inscription
- MCMXIV - MCMXIX/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THIS COLLEGE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ THIS MEMORIAL TABLET AND THE REREDOS ADJOINING ARE ERECTED BY THEIR/ FRIENDS AND CONTEMPORARIES THAT THOSE WHO COME AFTER MAY NOT FORGET/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Allan, Henry Somerset
Almond, George Hely Hutchinson
Atkins, Basil Elmo
Atkinson, Lionel Edward Mapletoft
Baring, C C
Beatty, Desmond Henry
Betley, E
Bevir, R
Bland, Charles Edward
Bourne, John Callender
See details for all 99 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 99
Served and returned: 0
Died: 99
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,forename,manner of death,decorations
Order of information: year died
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Plaque
- 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
- HERTFORD COLLEGE WW1
- WMO ID: 92399
- Condition: Good [last updated on 07-06-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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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