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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Organ or organ part
- District
- Durham
- Town
- Durham
- County
- Durham
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 22nd October 1920
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 41958
Current location
ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH CHURCH
Durham
Durham
Durham
England
OS Grid Ref: NZ 270 420
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- ORGAN WITH TWO DEDICATORY BRASS PLAQUES PLACED EACH SIDE OF THE CHANCEL ARCH
- Inscription
- PLAQUE ONE: THE ORGAN IN THIS CHURCH IS DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THE CHURCH AND CONGREGATION WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919 (NAMES) (EXACT LINE SPACING UNKNOWN) PLAQUE TWO: AD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM ET IN MEMORIAM SCHOLAE DUNELMSIS ALUMNORUM QUI BELLO OMNIUM MAXIME MEMORABILI PRO PATRIA SUE MORTEM OCCUBERUNT HAEC MUSICORUM ORGANA SUNT DEDICATO. ANNO MCMXIX (NAMES) (TRANSLATION: TO THE GREATER GLORY OF AND IN MEMORY OF THE FORMER DURHAM SCHOLARS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR THIS MUSICAL ORGAN HAS BEEN DEDICATED IN THE YEAR 1919) (EXACT LINE SPACING UNKNOWN)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 384
Served and returned: 192
Died: 192
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaques
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
- Plaques
- 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
- St Margaret Of Antioch Church And Durham Scholars WW1
- WMO ID: 270493
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 25-02-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- CDD47.43
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