Memorial

Font 1914-18 1939-45 Beaconsfield Primitive Methodist

Blyth

Memorial Name: Font 1914-18 1939-45 Beaconsfield Primitive Methodist (B42.35)

NEWMP Ref No.: B42.35

Parish: Blyth

Original Location:

Beaconsfield Street Primitive Methodist Church (demolished).

Present Location:

New Central Methodist Church in Beaconsfield Street

Which War:

a.1914-18
b.1939-45

Materials Used:

Oak with brass plates, one for each of 5 different churches.

Inscription:

In memory of the members of
Beaconsfield Methodist Church
who made the supreme sacrifice
during the Great Wars
1914-1918

1939-1945

In heavenly love abiding.

Memorial Description:

Font, with slender oak column 40 inches high standing on oak base supporting a narrow octagonal font of 14½ inches diameter (37cms).

Five faces of the sides of the font bear brass plates, the other three faces are carved with an abstract pattern.

The lettering in each case is in Roman serif capitals.

See also B42.09.

Names:

a. 3 full names.
b. 5 full names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. The inscription on the original is unknown.

2. Originally in the Blyth Beaconsfield Street Primitive Methodist Church, which was closed in the 1960s and amalgamated with Blyth Central Methodist Church, Waterloo Road.
This was demolished in 1989 and replaced by the New Central Methodist Church in Beaconsfield Street, opened 1990.

Sources:

Photo of modern font: Janet Brown

Source of quotation:
“In heavenly love abiding” First line of a Hymn by Anna L. Waring, 1850, based on John 15:10

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Jack Tait, Blyth Local History Society;
Tony Harding;
Janet Brown

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Names Documents:

BLYTH, Beaconsfield Primitive Methodist Church (demolished).

 

  In memory of the members of

  Beaconsfield Methodist Church

  who made the supreme sacrifice

  during the Great Wars

  1914-1918

  Andrew Easton

  Andrew Farley

  George Jackson

  1939-1945

  Kenneth Allen

  John George Beckwith

  Leonard Blades

  J. George Govans

  Edmund Storey

  “In heavenly love abiding”

NamesB42.35

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