Memorial
St. James Church, Croydon Common - WW1
Current Location
Collections Reference EPH 7927. Callum has looked into this (October 2022), and the internal collections record has a blank current location and no digitised assets associated with it. There is a barcode tag and a note to say that the object was last checked in 2016 so it should be findable in the IWM store. However, this would require requesting one of the Collections Team make a special effort to find it. Callum will aim to find out from this team how difficult this would be. , Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, Southwark, Southwark, Greater London, SE1 6HZ, England
OS Grid Reference
TQ 31387 79095
Names listed on this memorial
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- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 10795
- Description
- Five black slate tablets (two now broken and incomplete) with inlaid gold lettering, originally attached to an altar in the north-east corner of the nave. It is thought there were originally 163 names on the memorial, however as a result of damage there are now only 133.
- Inscription
- (Not known)
- War
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Number Commemorated
- 133
- Died
- 133
- Information shown
- Surname, forenames
- Order of names
- Surname
- Maintenance History
- The church closed in 1980. The memorial was later found in a skip and given to the Imperial War Museum (collections record https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30087702, original collections reference EPH 7927)
Previous Location(s)
St James' Church, Lower Addiscombe Road, Addiscombe, Croydon, Greater London, England
Denomination
Church of England
Year of move
1980's
Reason for move
The church closed in 1980. The memorial was later found in a skip and given to the Imperial War Museum (collections record https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30087702, original collections reference EPH 7927)
- Custodian
- Imperial War Museum
Components
- Plaques
Made from: Slate
Condition: Poor
- Imperial War Museum: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30087702
- "The death of a parish: Being a history of the former parish church of St. James, Croydon Common", Alan C Hardcastle, 1990