
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Window
- District
- Tonbridge And Malling
- Town
- Tonbridge
- County
- Kent
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 83800
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Current location
Chapel
Tonbridge School
High Street
Tonbridge
Tonbridge And Malling
Kent
TN9 1JP
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 59065 47021
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- St Seiriol's Church
Porth-Y-Felin Road
Holyhead
Anglesey
Gwynedd
Wales
OS Grid Ref: SH 24414 82661
Denomination: Church in Wales
- St Seiriol's Church
- Description
- Seven light stained glass window, the central light of which shows Christ on the cross. There was an accompanying brass names plaque which was not moved to Tonbridge. The window was moved Tonbridge School Chapel after a fire destroyed their stained glass windows
- Inscription
- [unknown]
- 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
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Window
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stained Glass
- Window
- 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
- Costs
Memorial: £447
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Gwynedd Archaeological Trust: archwilio.org.uk/arch/query/page.php?watprn=GAT71695
- Tonbridge School www.tonbridge-school.co.uk/about/history
- Philip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), p. 321
- COFLEIN: ST SEIRIOL'S CHURCH, HOLYHEAD www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/43644/details/st-seiriols-church-holyhead NPRN 43644
- Holyhead and the Great War Commemorative Second Edition, by Robert Edward Roberts Published by Holyhead Maritime Museum Holyhead in the Great War A stained glass East Window by Messrs Kempe & So, London, has been placed in St. Seiriol's Church to the memory of all those from this parish who have fallen in the war. A brass tablet has been placed in the Church in connection with the window containing the names of the fallen. The cost of the window was £447 and the tablet, which is the work of Messrs. Wippell & Co., London, cost £190. The church was found to be structurally unsound in the 1980s and demolished in 1992.
- Bristow Consulting, www.bristowconsulting.co.uk/projects/tonbridge-school-chapel, accessed 23rd April, 2024
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