
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Chapel or Church: Freestanding building
- District
- North Dorset
- Town
- Iwerne Minster
- County
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 07 November 1956
Attended by: Bishop of Salisbury (Dr W. L. Anderson)
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 55250
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Current location
Claysmore School Chapel
Blandford Road (A350)
Iwerne Minster
North Dorset
Dorset
DT11 8LL
England
OS Grid Ref: ST 86315 14681
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- The memorial is the church; there is a stone tablet inside the church that denotes this.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ OLD CLAYESMORIANS/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN TWO GREAT WARS/ 1914 - 1918 AND 1939 - 1945/ THIS CHAPEL WAS DEDICATED/ BY/ WILLIAM, LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY/ 7TH NOVEMBER 1956
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Portland - Chapel
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Tablet
- 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
- Clayesmore School War Memorial Chapel
- WMO ID: 261352
- Condition: Good [last updated on 04-12-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Costs
Site: Free
Memorial: c. £15,000 - 20,000- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Clayesmore School
- Reference
- The names of those memorialised are listed in this publication
- Clayesmore School booklet for the Dedication of the Memorial Chapel, by William, Lord Bishop of Salisbury, Wednesday 7 November 1956.
- Unidentified Newspaper/Magazine, 7 November 1956.
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