- Type of Memorial
- Sculptured / Cast figure
- WMR Reference Number
- 11690
- Description
- In the nave, north aisle, a free standing monument with a bronze lifesize recumbent effigy of a general on a black marble sarcophagus. The sarcophagus has a rectangular brass panel on the nave side with the memorial inscription, and a bronze panel on the wall side with a relief showing a schoolroom scene with two men and native children. At the ends are two brass shields, one (east side) with inscription, the other (west side) with a coat of arms. The sarcophagus is supported on six lion's claw feet on an inscribed light coloured stone base.
- Inscription
- TO/ MAJOR GENERAL CHARLES GEORGE GORDON, C.B./ WHO AT ALL TIMES AND EVERYWHERE, GAVE HIS STRENGTH TO THE WEAK, HIS/ SUBSTANCE TO THE POOR, HIS SYMPATHY TO THE SUFFERING, HIS HEART TO GOD./ BORN AT WOOLWICH 28 JANUARY 1833./ SLAIN AT KHARTOUM 26 JANUARY 1885./ HE SAVED AN EMPIRE BY HIS WARLIKE GENIUS, HE RULED VAST PROMISES/ WITH JUSTICE, WISDOM AND POWER./ AND LASTLY OBEDIENT TO HIS SOVEREIGNS COMMAND, HE DIED IN THE HEROIC/ ATTEMPT TO SAVE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM IMMINENT AND DEADLY PERIL./ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN MAY LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR / HIS FRIENDS" (S.JOHN XV.13.)/ THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY HIS ONLY SURVIVING BROTHER, WHOSE ELDEST/ SON ALSO PERISHED IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY, AS A MIDSHIPMAN IN H.M.S. "CAPTAIN", AND IS COMMEMORATED WITH OTHERS IN THE ADJOINING RECESS