- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 55309
- Description
- Two, wall mounted, wooden boards constructed of English oak with carved inscription verses and names in gold coloured lettering.
The Church guide book describes the upper WW1 board as a former "gradine" which was originally located behind the Altar. It has since been adapted by the removal of a shelf and re-used as a war memorial board. Other decorative features include an elaborately carved area at the curved head of the frame along with four wooden pinnacles and a carved lower frame rail. Also, bisecting part of the inscription verses, is a Crucifix in relief at the top of the board.
Mounted on each vertical aspect of the frame is a figure in relief, the one on the left depicting St. George slaying the dragon, the other of St Michael the Archangel slaying the Devil in the form of a serpent.
Below the WW1 board is an associated WW2 landscape orientated, plainer board incorporating a moulded wooden frame.
Beneath the tablets is a free standing sideboard with stepped shelves with terminal shelves bearing Christian monograms - IHS to the left and Alpha and Omega to the right, with a central shelf bearing a carving of the paschal lamb and flag. Vases containing poppies are on the two side shelves, with poppies on the central shelf. A glazed framed holding a copy of the poem 'In Flanders Fields' sits on a shel on the left.
- Inscription
- Upper board : LET US REMEMBER / BEFORE GOD THE MEN / FROM THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR / LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 -1919. / (26 NAMES) / TANTA TESTIUM NUBES. (A great cloud of witnesses) / Sons of this place, let this of you be said, / That you who live were worthy of your dead; / These gave their lives, that you who live may reap / A richer harvest Ere you fall asleep.
Lower board : ALSO THOSE FROM THIS PARISH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE / WAR 1939 -1945 / (12 NAMES)