
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Rossendale
- Town
- Waterfoot
- County
- Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
Date:
Attended by:
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 63030
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Current location
Beside the front door of the theatre
which is in the former Sunday School building
Rossendale Players Millennium Theatre (formerly Bethel Baptist School)
Burnley Road East
Waterfoot
Rossendale
Lancashire
BB4 9AR
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 83480 22112
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Bethel Baptist Church
Burnley Road East
Waterfoot
Rossendale
Lancashire
BB4 9AR
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 83480 22112
Denomination: Baptist
- Bethel Baptist Church
- Description
- Rectangular stone tablet attached to a wall with a triangular pediment and carved wreath. Addition of plate "1939-1945" commemorates subsequent war.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORIAM/ ERECTED IN HONOUR/ AND MEMORY/ OF THE MEN ASSOCIATED/ WITH THIS/ CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL/ WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES/ IN THE EUROPEAN WAR/ 1914-1918/ "I WITH UNCOVERED HEAD/ SALUTE THE SACRED DEAD/ WHO WENT AND WHO RETURNED NOT"/ "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"/ Ecclesiasticus XLIV v.XIV./ (Addition) 1939-1945.
- 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
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Photograph-www.rossendale-fhhs.org.uk/files/war_memorials/bethel_baptist_war_memorial.html
- Church Centenary 1954 - Historical Survey of the Church and School 1839 - 1954. (family collection)
- livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/community/7010
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