
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Gate
- District
- Alnwick
- Town
- Acklington
- County
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Faculty Granted
Date: 1 July 1921
Attended by: (Book 1, Number 753) - Rededicated
Date: 8 November 2015
Attended by: Undefined - Unveiled
Date: 9 October 1921
Attended by: Duke of Northumberland - Dedicated
Date: 9 October 1921
Attended by: Canon Mangin, Vicar of Alnwick - Show More (3)
- Faculty Granted
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 33305
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Current location
Acklington Street (B6345)
St John the Divine Church
B6345
Acklington
Alnwick
Northumberland
NE65 9BL
England
OS Grid Ref: NU 22719 01917
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Oak-framed lychgate with slate roof on a sandstone base. The gilded inscription is incised on the lintel on the outside of the gate. A section of it has been renewed. There is also a small incised brass plaque on an inner support record its renovation in 2015.
- Inscription
- THIS LYCHGATE WAS ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AS A THANK OFFERING FOR PEACE AND HONOUR OF THOSE FROM THIS DISTRICT WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 Brass Plaque - RENOVATED/ON THE OCCASION OF/THE CORONATION/OF/QUEEN ELIZABETH II/JUNE 2ND 1953 (Not present in 2024) Brass plaque: This lychgate was renovated/ in October 2015/ to mark the Centenary of WW1/ (1914 - 1918)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: Undefined
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Gates
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Plaque
Measurements: height 100mm, width 150mm
Materials: Brass - Undefined
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Gates
- Listing information
- Lych Gate to Church of St. John the Divine
- 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
- Acklington (St John the Divine's Church WWI lychgate)
- WMO ID: 165954
- Condition: Good [last updated on 25-04-2019]
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- History
- RENOVATED IN 1953 FOR CORONATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II; Restored 2015
- Costs
Memorial: £554
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
Details: Who commissioned : War Memorial Committee - Responsibility
- The Parochial Church Council
- Reference
- SHIELDS DAILY NEWS 24 April 1921- brief mention of the forthcoming unveling
- Illustrated Chronicle 10 October 1921 reports the unveiling with photograph
- NEWCASTLE DAILY JOURNAL 8 April 1920 reports proposals for memorials in church and schools and a memorial hall
- ALNWICK & COUNTY GAZETTE 10 April 1920 (proposals for tablets in church and school, with any surplus being used for a lych gate), 9 October 1920 (£554 has been raised so the lych gate will go ahead), 24 September1921 (reports the proposed unveiling) and 7 October 1922 (reports fund raising and that a Memorial Hall was part of the scheme)
- MORPETH HERALD 9 April 1920 (decision to have a memorial),15 OCT 1920 (reports the form of the memorial and results of fund raising), 30 September 1921 (proposed unveiling), 14 October 1921 (unveiling), 5 June 1925 (opening of the new Village Hall and the transfer of the £49 memorial surplus to the hall fund)
- newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=6269
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