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Plaque 1939-45 Minster

Reference

S140.040

Place

SUNDERLAND

Map ref

NZ 392569

Original Location

Previously in the Bede Chapel

Present Location

The Minster, formerly St. Michael and All Angels� Church, High Street West. Bishopwearmouth.

Which war

1939-45

Memorial Description

Parchment 24 inches high x 36 inches wide behind glass. The frame is 28 inches high x 39 inches wide with moulded edges terminating in squares containing carved flowers in each corner, and a raised device at centre top containing a cross. The lettering is done by hand in blue with red initials. The names are in eight rows, running on in the form of a sentence instead of columns.

Materials used

Parchment behind glass.

Inscription

To the Glory of God / and in grateful memory of the men of / Bishopwearmouth Parish Church and of St Peter�s Church / Bishopwearmouth who were killed in the World War 1939 - 1945

Names

29 full names with one decoration.
See transcript.

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photos: Simon Raine; C. Sanders; Tony Harding; James Pasby

Diocese of Durham Faculty number 6530, issued 27/05/1987

Monumental Inscriptions and Dedications within St. Michael & All Angels, Bishopwearmouth and the Gravestones in the churchyard Andrew D. Fletcher

External web link

Durham at War

Research acknowledgements

John and Mavis Dixon; C. Sanders; Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale; Tony Harding

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Plaque 1939-45 Minster (S140.040)

   TO the GLORY of GOD

   and in grateful memory of the men of

   Bishopwearmouth Parish Church and of St Peter’s Church

   Bishopwearmouth who were killed in the World War 1939 - 1945

   Spencer Allen      Thomas Blackbell  Reuben Cooper    George Henry Davis

   Edgar Vivien Edge  James Gilbertson  John Glancy      William Howard Hume

   John Angus Jackson Jack Johnson      William Langton  John Liddle

   Jack Lumsdon       James McQuillan   Douglas Nesbitt  Charles Oxlade

   James Patterson    Herbert Reed G.C. Samuel Rodley    Ernest William Royle

   John Smillie       John Spargo       Geoffrey Taylor  Walter Silva White

   David Summerville  Alan Williamson   Thomas Wilshaw   Robert Wilson

                              William Young

NamesS140.040

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