Memorial

Todmorden Unitarian Church - WW1

Tablets

Source: Copyright Mike Berrell

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Current Location

Fielden Memorial Church, Honey Hole Lane, Todmorden, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, OL14 6LL, England

SD 93551 23863

Unitarian

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 2663
Description: Grey marble tablet in Alabaster frame. Incised black lettering. Quatrefoil borber at top. Cusped frames to panels.
Inscription: (Names)/ IN HONOUR/ AND EVER GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE/ MEMBERS OF THIS CHURCH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN / DEFENCE OF THEIR NATIVE/ LAND AND FOR THE CAUSE/ OF FREEDOM, JUSTICE AND/ PEACE IN THE WAR OF/ 1914-1918/ GOD HAS RECEIVED THEM INTO HIS/ MERCY AND THEY LIVE IN HIS LIGHT/ FOR EVER/ SEE YE TO IT THAT THESE SHALL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN.

Maintenance History: Date Unknown: church is redundant and damp is causing the memorial to be brought away from the wall which it is fixed to.

Unveiled

8th May 1921

Major Barker MP for Sowerby and Local Clergy/Dignitaries

Dedicated

8th May 1921

Rev. A.W. Fox M.A. and Local Clergy/Dignitaries

Frame

Height: 1300mm

Width: 2000mm

Made from: Alabaster

Condition: At Risk

Tablets

Made from: Marble - Grey

Condition: At Risk

Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 917