Memorial Details
Memorial
Font 1914-18 1939-45 Bowes Street Methodist
Reference
B42.36
Place
BLYTH
Map ref
NZ 310815
Original Location
Bowes Street United Methodist Church (demolished).
Present Location
Blyth New Central Methodist Church
Which war
a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45
b. 1939-45
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
a. Unveiled 23rd December 1923 by Cllr. J. Marshall
Memorial Description
Font, with slender oak column 40 inches high standing on oak base supporting a narrow octagonal font of 14˝ inches diameter. 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.
Materials used
Oak with brass plates, each for 5 different churches.
Inscription
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
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
Names
Notes
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.
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.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Blyth News 24/12/1923 reports unveiling
Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 29/12/1923 reports unveiling of plaque, not font.
Morpeth Herald 28/12/1923 reports unveiling.
Source of quotation:
“Their name liveth for evermore” Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus 44
Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 29/12/1923 reports unveiling of plaque, not font.
Morpeth Herald 28/12/1923 reports unveiling.
Source of quotation:
“Their name liveth for evermore” Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus 44
Links to Source Material :
Research acknowledgements
The late Jack Tait, Blyth Local History Society; Dorothy Hall
Research In Progress
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Font 1914-18 1939-45 Bowes Street Methodist (B42.36)
BLYTH, Bowes Street United Methodist Church.
Brass plate for 1914-18
Dedicated to the
memory of those who made
the supreme sacrifice
in the Great War
1914-1918
Thomas Clark
David Ferrel Fenwick
William Hepple
Edward Jobling
William Lawson
Wilfred Lawson
Cyril Paxton Pitchford
William Nixon
John Nixon
Percival Milner Sidgwick
Alexander Bruce Storey
"Their name liveth for evermore"
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Brass plate for 1939-45
Bowes Street Methodist Church
To the memory of
those who made
the supreme sacrifice
in the world war
1939-1945
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Fred Hebron
Norman Soulsby
George Brocksopp
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“Their name liveth for evermore”
NamesB42.36
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