Memorial

Sedbergh School - WW1 and WW2, Cloisters

WW1 Tablet Names A to D

Source: Copyright Stuart Nicholson

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Built into the slope of the ground in front and below the Classroom Block, Sedbergh School, Busk Lane, Sedbergh, South Lakeland, Cumbria, LA10 5HG, England

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SD 65526 91895

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Other structure
WMR Reference Number: 457
Description: Cloisters with four tablets covering each war with names in two columns engraved on each. The five arches symbolise the five houses. Arms of Roger Lupton and Edward VI. Laurel wreaths around each tablet. The cloister has a wide U-plan: a 5-bay arcade flanked by short but wide 3-bay arcaded wings, all the arches round-headed. The main arcade has short square piers with a raised square panel on the front of each, moulded imposts and moulded heads to the arches with keystones run up to a continuous frieze, and a plain parapet. In the spandrels of the outer pair of arches are carved shields; the frieze is inscribed "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE", and a raised panel in the centre of the parapet is inscribed "DVRA VIRVM NVTRIX". Each wing has a large central arch flanked by smaller window arches, with a pair of lion masks in the spandrels, and a raised panel on the parapet with inscription "MDCCCCXIV" (on the left) and "MDCCCXVIII" (on the right). The return sides of the parapets continue northwards to enclose the sides of a grassed garden. Inside the cloister each bay has a dome-vaulted ceiling, and the rear wall has a central archway to the steps flanked on each side by 4 bays of blind arcading. Each blind arch contains a wreathed panel with painted lists of names.
Inscription: On each panel - Dates/ In Memoriam/ [Names]

Commemoration

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 256
Died: 256
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames
Order of names: surname
Additional Information: Note this names count differs from the school's claim of 257 boys and one Master killed - that in the English Heritage citation (248) is wrong.

War: Second World War (1939-1945)
Number Commemorated: 198
Died: 198
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames
Order of names: surname
Additional Information: Note this names count is correct - that in the English Heritage (192) citation is wrong and the Sedbergh Association (see References) lists 201 known casualties ( with their service and death details)..

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Sedbergh School - WW1 and WW2, Cloisters

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Sedbergh School - WW1 and WW2, Cloisters

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