Font 1914-18 1939-45 Bowes Street United Methodist

Bowes Street United Methodist Church (demolished).

Blyth New Central Methodist Church

a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45

a. Unveiled 23rd December 1923 by Cllr. J. Marshall

Oak with brass plates, each for 5 different churches.

a. Dedicated to the
memory of those who made
the supreme sacrifice
the Great War
1914-1918
Their name liveth for evermore

b. Bowes Street Methodist Church
To the memory of
those who made
the supreme sacrifice
in the world war
1939-1945

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 capitals for the dedication and sans serif capitals for the name.

See also B42.09.

1. The font was originally procured as a monument to the fallen members of the 1939-45 war.

2. Bowes Street United Methodist Church 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.

Photos: Janet Brown; Tony Harding

Blyth News
24/12/1923 reports unveiling

Morpeth Herald
28/12/1923 reports unveiling.

Newcastle Weekly Chronicle
29/12/1923 reports unveiling of plaque, not font.

Source of quotation:
“Their name liveth for evermore” Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus 44

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

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