Memorial

St Edwards Church

Rood Beam

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Current Location

St Edwards Church, Church Street, Stow-on-the-Wold, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, GL54 1BB, England

OS Grid Reference

SP 19088 25745

Denomination

Church of England

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Church Fabric / Fitting: Rood or rood loft
WMR Reference Number: 20736
Description: The church has several linked memorials: A 'Rood beam' with Calvary scene. Beam supports Christ on the cross in centre with standing figures of Mary to left and St John to right. The associated large dedicatory tablet is set into the stone wall of the tower wall below the beam and has a carved inscription. WW2 names are in the top left and right corners of the tablet. A carved relief of a wreath is top centre of the tablet. Two more recent bench seats outside the Church, both with dedicatory plaques. Two Books of Remembrance, one hard bound and one 'Loose-leaf', providing details of the fallen.
Inscription: tablet, centre: THE ROOD-BEAM IN THIS CHURCH WAS ERECTED / IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING WHO LAID DOWN / THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR 1914 - 1919. / (45 names) / DEDICATED BY THE LORD/ BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER/ DEC. 15TH 1921 / "A GOOD LIFE HATH BUT FEW DAYS: BUT A GOOD NAME ENDURETH FOR EVER" ECCLUS.XLI.13 (J T EVANS RECTOR / S WICKINS CHURCH/ G A FRENCH WARDENS) tablet, top left and top right corner: 1939 - 1945 / (14 names)

Commemoration

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 45
Died: 45
Information shown: surname, forenames, date died, age at death, additional
Order of names: alphabetical by surname, then, if necessary, by forename

War: Second World War (1939-1945)
Number Commemorated: 14
Died: 14
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of names: alphabetical by surname

History

Maker(s): R L Boulton & Sons, Mason
Healing & Overbury Cheltenham, Architect

Ceremonies

Dedicated

15 December 1921

Lord Bishop of Gloucester

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St Edwards Church

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