Memorial

Victoria Street Congregational Church

United Reformed Church, Victoria Street, Derby War Memorial

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On the Southwest wall of the side chapel on the first floor., Central United Reformed Church, Becket Well La At Junction With Victoria St, Derby, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 1JW, England

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SK 351 361

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United Reformed

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Composite
WMR Reference Number: 19023
Description: A composite memorial comprising tablets, a plaque and a book of remembrance built into an alabaster frame constructed around two windows. The memorial is presumed to have been formed around two windows of the original church but has been re-erected on a blank internal wall of the new church with artificial lighting provided behind the relocated glass. The main frame is of panels of brown mottled alabaster forming a plane vertical face with facings to the shallow arched window opening soffits and reveals and with moulded rails forming a stepped top and sides. A green mottled marble cill extends across the centre below which a shallow bow section extends at the centre. The two windows each have two lights of stained glass depicting, from left to right, figures of Wycliffe, Milton, Bunyan and Cromwell and at the heads are the heraldic shields of Oxford University, Christ's College Cambridge, Bedford and Sidney College Cambridge respectively. Each window is set into a wooden frame reproducing the lancet shape and ogee heads of the original lights. At the two ends of the frame are white marble tablets of figures in classical robes in relief. The left tablet is of a woman perhaps representing Peace. She has a headband of laurel leaves and is holding a laurel branch in her right hand while holding up her left hand, palm outwards and standing by a lily plant. The subject of the right tablet is a woman shielding a child. At the centre a third white marble tablet bears the inscription and names. At its head is a mosaic motif comprising a plain Latin cross in pale gold tesserae within an oval cartouche of dark brown tesserae. The cavo-relievo inscription and names are in upright capital decorative lettering with the letters picked out in black. Below the inscription, and above the cill, is a recess containing the book of remembrance and enclosed by a pair of metal doors with a perforated design of fleurs-de-lis within curved frames. The book has a leather cover with tooled borders, an embossed title in gilded sentence case Gothic lettering, metal clasps and a ring for attachment. The vellum pages have inscriptions in black Gothic calligraphy with selected rubricated initials and the introductory page is finely decorated and illuminated. The biography pages generally have three people on each page giving such details as could be compiled for the fallen and for those who served and returned, written in black and red calligraphy in different cases of Gothic lettering. At the centre, below the cill on the bow front, is a curved oblong bronze plaque with the WW2 inscription in upright capital Roman lettering in relief within recessed strips coloured black.
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Victoria Street Congregational Church

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Victoria Street Congregational Church

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