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    Memorial

    Cholmeley Family

    Cholmeley Family

    Source: Copyright Morris Felton

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    Current Location

    On the south wall, Saint Andrew and St Mary Church, Main Street, Stoke Rochford, South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, NG33 5ED, England

    OS Grid Reference

    SK 92052 27351

    Denomination

    Church of England

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    Type of Memorial
    Board / Plaque / Tablet
    WMR Reference Number
    59384
    Description
    Rectangular marble dedicatory tablet surrounded by an alabaster frame formed of two corbels surmounted by pilasters and capitals. The whole is topped by a broken pediment with the Cholmeley coat of arms at centre. Commemorates seven descendants of Sir Hugh Cholmeley, of Easton, Lincolnshire (Stoke Rochford being the church for the two adjoining estates of the Turner and Cholmeley families) who fell in WW1
    Inscription
    CASSIS TUTISSIMA VIRTUS/ To the Glory of God/ and in memory of those His Servants, members/ of the Cholmeley family whose bodies now/ rest in peace on the battlefields of France and/ Flanders having given their lives for Freedom/ and their Souls to God./ (Names)/ O Valiant Hearts who to your glory came/ Through dust of conflict and through battle flame/ All you had hoped for all you had you gave/ To save Mankind yourselves you scorned to save/ DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY (Translation of the Latin: Virtue is the safest helmet)
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    7
    Died
    7
    Information shown
    surname,rank,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,age of death,decorations
    Maker(s)
    • Messrs. M. Tuttell and Son, fine art sculptors, Corporation Street, Lincoln (Sculptored in its entirety), Sculptor

    Sponsor Type
    private

    Ceremonies

    Placed

    Before 2nd July 1921

    Unveiled

    3rd July 1921

    Bishop of Grantham

    Components

    Tablet

    Height: 1600mm

    Width: 875mm


    Made from: Marble


    Condition: Good


    • Faculty Book 25 October 1919
    • Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 02 July 1921 CHOLMELEY MEMORIAL TABLET IN STOKE ROCHFORD CHURCH.
    • Grantham Journal - Saturday 09 July 1921 CHOLMELEY WAR MEMORIAL. HANDSOME TABLET UNVEILED AT STOKE ROCHFORD.