Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Reredos or screen
- District
- Peterborough
- Town
- Peterborough
- County
- Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Faculty Granted
Date: 28th October 1919
Attended by: - Unveiled
Date: 8/11/1919 - Show More (1)
- Faculty Granted
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8449
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Current location
The reredos is naturally above the altar in the chancel.
Longthorpe St Botolphs Church
Thorpe Road
Peterborough
Peterborough
Cambridgeshire
PE3 6NA
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 16317 98384
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Ornate three-bay reredos with castellated top, with deeply-carved grapes and vine along its cornice. Each bay of the reredos is separated by canopied niches with carved figures of St Martin of Tours, St Michael, St Oswald and St Cecilia.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR BOY/ JOHN HORACE EBBUTT/ WHO DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE/ IN FRANCE, ON FEB 21ST 1919./ THIS REREDOS IS ERECTED BY/ HIS FAMILY./ I WILL GO UNTO THE ALTAR OF GOD/ EVEN UNTO THE GOD OF MY/ JOY AND GLADNESS
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ebbutt, John Horace
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Relationship, forenames, surname, place of death, date of death.
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Reredos
Measurements: depth 300 mm, height 1260 mm, width 1630MM
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Reredos
- 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 - Sponsorship
- Private
- Responsibility
- Longthorpe Church
- Reference
- Peterborough Standard 8/11/1919: reported the unveiling service of the reredos.
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