Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Altar or communion rail
- District
- Peterborough
- Town
- Peterborough
- County
- Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- Messrs Andrews & Co of Westgate, Peterborough (Makers)
- Ceremony
- Faculty Granted
Date: 22nd April 1920
Attended by: Undefined - Dedicated
Date: 24/12/1920
Attended by: Canon Maskew performed the dedication. - Show More (1)
- Faculty Granted
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 8450
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Current location
The communion rails are naturally in the chancel.
Longthorpe St Botolph's Church
Thorpe Road
Peterborough
Peterborough
Cambridgeshire
PE3 6NA
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 16309 98382
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Communion rails, incorporating carvings of grapes and corn; at the foot of the rails are a dedicatory plaque and seven further plaques, each of which bears the name of a parishioner who died.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914 - 1918/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Ebbutt, John H
Flatt, Alfred G
Flatt, Sydney C
Hucklesby, William A
Knight, Walter
Maddocks, William
Smith, John W
See details for all 7 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 7
Served and returned: 0
Died: 7
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forenames, surname, place of death, date of death
Order of information: Each casualty's details is engraved on a separate brass plaque.
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Altar / Communion rail
Measurements: depth 100 mm, height 670 mm, width 2440 mm
Materials: Wood - Oak - Plaques
Measurements: depth 2 mm, height 40 mm, width 480 mm
Materials: Brass - Plaques / Panels with names
Measurements: depth 2 mm, height 40 mm, width 305 mm
Materials: Brass
- Altar / Communion rail
- 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
- Public
- Responsibility
- Church of England
- Reference
- Peterborough Standard 25/12/1920: reported the unveiling/dedication of the altar rails.
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