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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Chapel: Dedicated within church building
- District
- East Northamptonshire
- Town
- Oundle
- County
- Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- Arthur Conran BLOMFIELD M.A. F.R.I.B.A. (Architect)
- Ceremony
- Consecrated
Date: 22nd November 1923
Attended by: Bishop of Peterborough
- Consecrated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 37449
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Current location
Chapel of St. Anthony,
Oundle School Chapel
Milton Road
Oundle
East Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire
PE8 4AB
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 03820 88338
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Chapel with five memorial tablets on rear wall of the Sanctuary. Sword on each tablet with cross on hilt & rays of sunshine radiating from the hilt.
- Inscription
- On rood beam : IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED Memorial tablet, centre : 1914-1918 Other four tablets : 'FAITH', 'HOPE', 'SERVICE', 'SACRIFICE'
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Adam, G W
Aitchison, D J
Andrews, C E
Andrews, E N
Armitage, D W
Armitage, F R
Armitage, J A R
Astwood, E L S
Atkinson, J B
Attwood, L L
See details for all 233 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 228
Served and returned: 0
Died: 228
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablets
Measurements: depth 80 mm, height 2150 mm, width 860 mm
Materials: Marble
- Tablets
- Listing information
- OUNDLE SCHOOL MEMORIAL CHAPEL
- 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
- Oundle School Chapel WWI
- WMO ID: 141704
- Condition: Good [last updated on 16-06-2013]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Responsibility
- School Authorities
- Reference
- BRITISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS WAR MEMORIALS by KERNOT, C F 190-192 Source: Image Library NIWM Published:ROBERTS AND NEWTON 1927 LONDON
- The original Roll of Honour on line version-www.inmemories.com/RollOfHonour/oundleschool.htm
- Book- 'And we were young: Oundle school & the Great war by Colin Pendrill, ISBN 9781912174195, 2018. This is an updated and expanded version of the 1920's school Roll of Honour. Of 1,200 boys and masters of Oundle and Laxton schools who joined up, 263 made the Supreme Sacrificr
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