- Type of Memorial
- Chapel or Church: Freestanding building
- WMR Reference Number
- 19536
- Description
- Chapel in the plan shape of a Greek cross with four equal arms. It is lit by four large stained glass windows. Names of the fallen cut into stone tablets under the windows of the north & south transepts. ALTAR AND REREDOS GIVEN BY A SINGLE DONOR AND THE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS WERE GIVEN BY ANOTHER. FIVE LANCET LIGHTS IN THE WEST WALL OF THE CLOISTER.
North window : LAST SUPPER, PROCESSION TO CALVARY AND CELEBRATION OF THE HOLY COMMUNION. IMAGE OF THE DONOR'S SON WHO FELL AND OF HIS DAUGHTER WHO WAS A NURSE ARE IN ONE OF THE OUTER LIGHTS
East window : Depiction of the Crucifixion.
South window : ENTOMBMENT AND THE RESURRECTION DEPICTED. IN THE LOWER PART A RE TWO SCENES, ONE REPRESENTING THE BURIAL OF A SOLDIER AT THE FRONT AND THE OTHER THE VISION OF ST MARTIN
West window : Illustrations of the idea of Peace and Hope.
Lancets : THEY CONTAIN AN IMAGE OF THE SCHOOL'S FOUNDER, LAWRENCE SHERIFF; KING OSWALD; KING ALFRED; KING EDMUND; KING ARTHUR
- Inscription
- On outer wall, east end of Chapel : TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ IN REMEMBRANCE OF OUR DEAD/ 1914 - 1918
Tablet set into floor: THEY WHOM THIS CHAPEL COMMEMORATES/ WERE NUMBERED AMONG THOSE WHO/ AT THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY LEFT ALL/ THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM, ENDURED HARDNESS,/ FACED DANGER, AND FINALLY PASSED OUR OF/ THE SIGHT OF MEN BY THE PATH OF DUTY/ AND SELF-SACRIFICE, GIVING UP THEIR OWN/ LIVES THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM./ LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT/ THAT THEIR NAME BE NOT FORGOTTEN
Inside walls: 1914 - 1918/ (NAMES)/ 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES)
INSIDE TABLET: KOREA EGYPT/ CYPRUS/ 1950 - 1956/ (NAMES)
LECTERN: GOD MADE TRIAL OF THEM AND FOUND/ THEM WORTHY OF HIMSELF. AS GOLD/ IN THE FURNACE HE PROVED THEM
ABOVE NAMES OF FALLEN IN NORTH TRANSEPT: THESE WALLS RECORD THE NAMES OF/ 679 SONS OF THE SCHOOL WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ OF 1914 - 1918