Memorial

Birchcliffe Baptist Church, Hebden Bridge - WW1

Overall view of memorial.

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Current Location

A deconsecrated Baptist church, Birchcliffe Centre, Birchcliffe Road, Hebden Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, HX7 8DG, England

SD 99504 27466

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Type of Memorial: Cenotaph
WMR Reference Number: 2845
Description: Cenotaph in Yorkshire stone flanked by walls with two bronze plaques placed on them. Three steps lead up to the memorial. Two reversed bronze torches flank each of the name plaques. Bronze wreath at the top centre above the dedicatory inscription
Inscription: (Centre): TO THE/ MEMORY OF/ THE MEN/ FROM THIS CHURCH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR USE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 THEY LAID THEIR RICHEST GIFT THEIR LIVES ON THE ALTAR OF SACRIFICE LET THEIR NAMES BE REMEMBERED (Exact line spacing unknown) (Plaques): (Names)

Cenotaph

Height: 3100mm

Width: 1350mm

Depth: 900mm

Made from: Stone - York

Condition: Good

Plaques

Made from: Bronze

Condition: Good

Halifax Weekly Guardian 4th Feb 1922 - Design approved
Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 607