Memorial
Oundle School Chapel - WW1
Current Location
Chapel of St. Anthony,, Oundle School Chapel, Milton Road, Oundle, East Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, PE8 4AB, England
OS Grid Reference
TL 03820 88338
Denomination
Church of England
Names listed on this memorial
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- Type of Memorial
- Chapel: Dedicated within church building
- WMR Reference Number
- 37449
- Description
- Chapel with five memorial tablets on rear wall of the Sanctuary. Sword on each tablet with cross on hilt & rays of sunshine radiating from the hilt.
- Inscription
- On rood beam : IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED Memorial tablet, centre : 1914-1918 Other four tablets : 'FAITH', 'HOPE', 'SERVICE', 'SACRIFICE'
- War
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Number Commemorated
- 228
- Died
- 228
- Maker(s)
Arthur Conran BLOMFIELD M.A. F.R.I.B.A., Architect
- Sponsor Type
- corporate
Ceremonies
Consecrated
22nd November 1923
Bishop of Peterborough
- Custodian
- School Authorities
Components
- Tablets
Height: 2150 mm
Width: 860 mm
Depth: 80 mm
Made from: Marble
Condition: Good
- BRITISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS WAR MEMORIALS by KERNOT, C F 190-192 Source: Image Library NIWM Published:ROBERTS AND NEWTON 1927 LONDON
- Book- 'And we were young: Oundle school & the Great war by Colin Pendrill, ISBN 9781912174195, 2018. This is an updated and expanded version of the 1920's school Roll of Honour. Of 1,200 boys and masters of Oundle and Laxton schools who joined up, 263 made the Supreme Sacrificr
- The original Roll of Honour on line version-http://www.inmemories.com/RollOfHonour/oundleschool.htm