Memorial

West Hanney - St. James The Great Church Parishioners, WW1

The Memorial Window

Source: Copyright Mike Coyle

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Current Location

Tablet is on North wall of Nave, St. James the Great Church, Church Street, West Hanney, Vale Of White Horse, Oxfordshire, OX12 0LN, England

SU 40620 92802

Church of England

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Type of Memorial: Window
WMR Reference Number: 31625
Description: Five-light stained glass, east window depicts Christ in majesty surrounded by angels, with a kneeling sailor supported by a Saint and a kneeling soldier supported by St. George. Inscription across base of window. Close by is an associated, wall mounted, landscape orientated, stone tablet supported by two corbel stones. An incised design of a square-terminal-armed cross is at top centre, beneath which is the incised main inscription followed by four columns of names and a further shorter inscription verse. These texts are collectively enclosed by a decorative banded design comprising a chain and line border in relief, interrupted at the top by the start and end of war years.
Inscription: (Tablet) : 1914 - 1919 / + / THE EAST WINDOW OF THIS CHURCH WAS ERECTED / BY A GRATEFUL PEOPLE IN PROUD AND HONOURED / MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM THIS PARISH WHO DIED / FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR / (29 NAMES in four columns) / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE (Window) : THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919 / IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN / BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH AND I WILL / GIVE THEE A CROWN OF LIFE

Tablet

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

Window

Made from: Stained Glass

Condition: Good