Memorial

Great Addington - WW1 Clock

All Saints Church bell tower and WW1 clock

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Current Location

In the bell tower, All Saints Church, Junction of Cranford Road and Woodford Road, Great Addington, East Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, NN14 4BH, England

OS Grid Reference

SP 95852 75110

Denomination

Church of England

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Clock or clock tower
WMR Reference Number: 38125
Description: Church clock with a shared dedicatory landscape orientated slate tablet set into the roadside Churchyard wall, to the right of entrance gates. A weather-stone, shields the top edge of the tablet. After the Second World War the original First World War tablet, associated with the church clock was replaced and included the names of those lost in WW2, and only the names of those lost in WW1 (See wmr's 38126 and 105984)
Inscription: Original WW1 tablet: R.I.P./ (Names)/ (Names)/ This scroll is one just copy of the tablet positioned in the wall surrounding All Saints Church/ This Tablet commemorates the erection of a new clock in the church tower in memory of the brave/ services rendered to their country by the above and the Victory achieved by our boys. Post WW2 tablet: ROLL OF HONOUR/ 1914 - 1918/ (Names)/ 1939 - 1945/ (Names) IN COMMEMORATION OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR AND THOSE WHO SERVED. THE/ MEMORIAL CLOCK WAS PLACED IN THE CHURCH TOWER/ IN 1921./ IN COMMEMORATION OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THOSE WHO SERVED./ THE MEMORIAL HALL WAS ERECTED IN 1955.

Commemoration

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 4
Died: 4
Information shown: Surname, forenames
Order of names: Surname

War: Second World War (1939-1945)
Number Commemorated: 2
Died: 2
Information shown: Surname, forenames
Order of names: Surname

Conservation

Custodian: PCC

Components

Tablet

Height: c 500mm

Width: c 1000mm

Made from: Slate

Condition: Good

Clock

Made from: Brass, Cast Iron, Steel

Condition: Good