Photo: James Pasby
Memorial
Reredos 1914-18 St. Chad's Chapel
Reference
D47.037
Place
DURHAM
Original Location
St. Chad’s College Chapel, 18 North Bailey DH1 3RH.
Which war
1914-18
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
Dedicated 7th March 1924 by Bishop of Durham, Dr. Hensley Henson.
Memorial Description
Reredos.
“It is in the style of the late 15th century English work, ornamented profusely with gold and colours. It is in the form of a triptych, the outer wings of which can be closed in penitential seasons.
The centre panel represents our Lord, crowned and vested, “reigning from the tree” in fulfillment of the ancient reading in the Psalms “Dominus regnavit a ligno”. He is surrounded by a nimbus, with adoring angels. On his right hand is the Blessed Virgin Mary, and on His left the patron of the collage, St.Chad, in his Episcopal vestments.
The wings are occupied respectively by the Venerable Bede, patron of Durham priests, bearing the chalice, and St. George, patron of soldiers, in full panoply.
On the back of the wings the names of the fallen are recorded, the priests on the one side and the soldiers on the other, with an inscription in the MS. hand of the 15th century. The centre panel is surrounded by the instruments of the Passion displayed on shields, and around panels is a deeply undercut device of a vine in fruit. the whole is surmounted by an elaborately carved cresting, richly gilt.”
Materials used
Wood
Inscription
Orate fratres / p animab- / buius coll.alumnoru / qui p patria bonu / certamen certantes / nos in vita praecesserunt / a.s. mcm?io- mcmrmuiii.
Requiem aeterna dona / eis dne et lux perpetua / luceat eis
Names
Sculptor, Artist or Designer
Designer Mr. W.H. Wood, F.R.I.B.A., Newcastle; Artist Messrs. W.S. Brown & Son, Newcastle; lettering by Art School of Armstrong College.
Notes
1. The Latin translates roughly as: Pray, brothers, for the souls of former pupils who in the sure victory in the struggle for their country went before us. The year of our Lord 1914-1918)
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: James Pasby
Durham University Journal Feb. 1924 contains description quoted and picture shown above.
Durham County Advertiser 7/3/1924
Northern Echo 4/3/1924 reports unveiling as described in Note 1 above.
Source of quotation:
"Requiem aerterna dona . . ." May they rest in peace and may light perpeual shine upon them". Mass for the Dead.
External web link
Links to Source Material :
Research acknowledgements
Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale; Dorothy Hall
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Reredos 1914-18 St. Chad's Chapel (D47.037)
Left Panel
Orate fratres
p animab-
buius coll.alumnoru
qui p patria bonu
certamen certantes
nos in vita praecesserunt
a.s. mcm?io- mcmrmuiii
George Anthony Grieg presb.
Charles Harold Garrett presb.
Wilfred Alfred Herbert presb.
George Bernard Hamilton Bishop
presb.
Charles Thomas Claud Jefferys
presb.
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Right Panel
Alan Monk
Harold Bell
Charles Vassie
Thomas Murray
Percy Harold Fisher
William Bates
Harold Linklater Colville
John Wynne Lisle
Kenneth Walton Grigson
James Thornton Halstead
William Knott Walton
Requiem aeterna dona
eis dne et lux perpetua
luceat eis
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