Memorial details

Memorial type
Window
District
St Helens
Town
Newton Le Willows
County
Merseyside
Country
England
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
53065

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Current location

In the centre of the South wall of the church
St Peter's Church
Church Street
Newton Le Willows
St Helens
Merseyside
WA12 9SR
England

OS Grid Ref: SJ 59308 95647
Denomination: Church of England

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Description
A three-light stained glass window with tracery across the top. The design in the tracery above the centre light, depicting Christ as the Light of the World - the Crucified wearing a radiant robe of light beneath a celestial canopy - continues the design. At the feet of Christ a stricken knight looks up in hope. The other six lights in the tracery have depictions of crowns with lilies each side of the centre, and red roses and palms in the other four. The light to the left of the figure of Christ depicts St George slaying the dragon, so signifying Soldiers, and has a panel beneath showing a battlefield scene which depicts a Red Cross nurse kneeling to tend a wounded soldier, whilst another soldier falls under fire to her left, with a group of soldiers marching in from the right. The light to the right depicts St Nicholas, Patron Saint of Sailors, in Bishop's robes, bearing a ship in his right arm, his Bishop's crook in his left, so signifying Sailors, and has a panel beneath showing a line of warships steaming abreast into shellfire. A dedication inscribed on a brass plate extends the length of the window across the bottom, whilst the plaques bearing the names for the Great War fallen are inscribed on brass plaques with stilted arches on the sloping sides of the window bay. There is a repousse laurel wreath at the top of each panel, with the dates of the war in the centre. The brass plaques bearing the WW2 names are attached to the walls each side of the outside of the window bay. They are a similar shape to those for the Great War and also have laurel wreaths with the dates of the war in their centres - but they are incised. All the inscriptions are incised, and painted black - but with the initial letters of the names, and significant letters of the dedication, being rubricated. Beneath the window is a glazed frame containing the medals and 'Death Penny' of one of the Great War casualties.
Inscription
In the window lights: Lux/ Mundi/ St George/ St Nicholas On the plaque below the window: This window is erected to the Glory of God and to commemorate those who at the call of King and Country/ left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger and finally passed out of the sight of men/ by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their lives that others might live in freedom./ They were a wall unto us both by night and day. 1 Sam. 25 Chap. 16 Verse Lefthand WW1 plaque: 1914/ (Names) Righthand WW1 plaque: 1918 (Names) Lefthand WW2 plaque: 1939/ (Names) Righthand WW2 plaque: 1945/ (Names)
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Allored, Arthur
Arbuthnott, John
Baldwin, Jack
Ball, Walter
Bartlett, Sydney
Bishop, Launcelot
Blackburn, Edward A
Boardman, Richard
Bodmer, John H
Bonney, Frank
See details for all 66 names
Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 44
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 44
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: Christian name, surname
    Order of information: Christian name, surname
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
    Total names on memorial: 22
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 22
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: Christian name, surname
    Order of information: Christian name, surname
Components
  • Plaque
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Brass
  • Window
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Glass
Listing information
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • Wigan Observer, 01/04/1922: Report of the Liverpool Diocesan Consistory Court - granting of a faculty to the church for the erection of a stained glass window and bronze tablet. Comment from the Chancellor that the date for the end of the war should be given as 1919, not 1918 as proposed.

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