Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Altar or altar part
- District
- Wealden
- Town
- Stone Cross
- County
- East Sussex
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 12 June 1923
Attended by: Bishop of Lewes performed the dedication of the memorial
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 58756
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Current location
St Luke's Church
Rattle Road / Hailsham Road junction
Stone Cross
Wealden
East Sussex
BN24 5EG
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 61560 04480
Denomination: Church of England
- Previous locations
- St Michael and All Angels' Church
Hankham Cross
Hankham (near Westham)
Wealden
East Sussex
BN24 5AR
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Church of England
- St Michael and All Angels' Church
- Description
- Wooden altar with four square carved panels in the centre and two linen-fold panels each side. Between these are two columns of inset-carved names, of the men from Hankham who died in World War 1 . Above the panels is the dedication; below them are the dates 1914 1918. (The altar was originally installed in 1923 at St Michael and All Angels' Church in Hankham, which was a Chapel of ease of St Mary's Church in Westham. After St Luke's Church opened in Stone Cross in January 1925, St Michael's Church in Hankham closed, and the altar was taken to St Luke's, which at that time was likewise a Chapel of ease of St Mary's Church).
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE OF/ (Names)/ 1914 1918
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Barber, Alfred
Barnes, George
Bourne, Percy
Breach, Albert
Burton, George
Campbell, Alexander
Cheal, Edward
Elphick, George
Foord, Thomas
Funnell, Ernest
See details for all 20 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 20
Served and returned: 0
Died: 20
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, surname
Order of information: Listed alphabetically by surname, in two columns
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Altar
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Altar
- 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
- History
- 2006: Altar was moved from the sacristy to the main body of St Luke's Church. / c1925: the altar was transferred to St Luke's Church in Stone Cross from St Michael's in Hankham. / June 1923: the altar was erected in St Michael and All Angels' Church in Hankham, as a memorial to that hamlet's WW1 casualties.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
Details: Paid for by the residents of Hankham - Responsibility
- Church of England
- Reference
- Roll of Honour www.roll-of-honour.com/Sussex/StoneCross.html
- Sussex Agricultural Express 15/6/1923 (page 12) reported the dedication of the memorial altar at Hankham Church.
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