Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Gate
- District
- Adur
- Town
- Sompting
- County
- West Sussex
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 71938
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Current location
St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church
Church Lane
Sompting
Adur
West Sussex
BN15 0AZ
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 16184 05623
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Wooden lychgate with the WW1&2 names on the stone coffin rest
- Inscription
- On roof beam: 1914 TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD 1918. On WW1 a names panel: By Thy Cross and Passion On WW1 b names panel: Good Lord deliver them On WW1 c names panel: By Thy Glorious Resurrection On WW1 d names panel: Good Lord deliver them. On top of coffin rest: 1939 - 45 On tablet: GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE / TO THE MEN OF SOM[TING / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / FOR THEIR COUNTRY.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 21
Served and returned: 0
Died: 21
Exact count: yes
Information shown: forename, surname, cause of death, place of death, date of death
Order of information: date of death. - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 7
Served and returned: 0
Died: 7
Exact count: yes
Information shown: initials, surname
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Shelter
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Stand
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone, Stone - Flint
- Shelter
- 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
- Sompting WW1&2
- WMO ID: 192663
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 29-06-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Booklet 16 : The Lych Gate at St Mary’s Church, Sompting - “Monument to the Glorious Dead�. Author Eileen Colwell - Lancing and Sompting Pathfinders - sites.google.com/site/lancsompastfinders/Home/history-of-the-villages-booklets
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