Memorial

Stained Glass Window and Plaque 1914-18 All Saints

Eppleton

Memorial Name: Stained Glass Window and Plaque 1914-18 All Saints (E65.01)

NEWMP Ref No.: E65.01

Parish: Eppleton

Original Location:

All Saint’s Church, Church Road. (demolished)

Present Location:

The church was placed for sale in 2003 and demolished in 2009.
The plaque was relocated in the Hetton Centre 01/07/2010

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Window unveiled April 1916 by the Dean of Durham (Dr Hensley Henson)

Plaque unveiled 9th April 1920 by Lord Joicey

Materials Used:

Brass plaque.

Who Commissioned:

Parishioners

How Money was Raised:

Public subscription

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Window was designed by Mr. W.H. Bartlett

Inscription:

Remember ye with thanksgiving & with all honour before God & men those sailors and soldiers who gave their lives
for their country in the Great War 1914-1919, especially those of this congregation & this parish to whose memory and
the memory of the late Miss Lishman this window is dedicated and their names are here recorded.
(Names)
Their name liveth for evermore.

Memorial Description:

Stained glass window of five lights.

The stonework has squared tops, but the windows have traceried pointed tops.

The two outer lights bear patterns with a cartouche enclosing a praying angel at the centre.

The Crucifixion scene is carried across the three centre windows.

The central light depicts Christ on the cross, with Mary Magdalene clutching his feet.

In the left light is the Virgin Mary, and in the right light is a saint.

The dedication is carried on a plaque 30 inches high x 60 inches wide (76cms x 153cms) below.

It is set in a moulded frame 3 inches wider (8cms).

The brass central panel has a multi-lined blue border with roundels at intervals.

The names are in five columns divided by vertical lines.

The lettering is in elaborate capitals for the dedications, sans serif capitals for the names, with the quotation at the bottom in Gothic lower case.

Names:

114 full names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. After unveiling the plaque, Lord Joicey opened a sale of work in aid of the fund for the repair of the Church vicarage and Church Hall and in doing so spoke in high terms of the generosity ever shown by the miners and their wives. Referring to the need for increased support to the Church funds he remarked that as a churchman, he knew the Church people were not so generous as Nonconformists in dealing with their church. Many churchmen seemed to think that the church was provided for by endowments and that it was not necessary to put their hands into their pockets to any great extent.

2. The stained glass window has gone. The plaque was discovered in the beer store at Hetton Centre. It has now been placed in the Hetton Centre and was rededicated 1st July 2010

 

Sources:

Photos: Simon Raine; C. Sanders; Elaine Naylor; old postcard of church: George Nairn

Durham Chronicle
23/04/1920 reports unveiling.

Newcastle Daily Chronicle
04/07/1916 reports unveiling of window.

North Star (Darlington)
17/04/1920 reports unveiling of plaque

Sunderland Echo
17/11/2009 reports proposed demolition.

The Monumental Brasses of County Durham William Lack, H. Martin Stuchfield and Philip Whittemore 2002 ISBN 095 4327101

Monumental Inscriptions & Dedications in the church of All Saints, Eppleton.

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

Additional Research Documents

E65.01 Notes on Names

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E65.01 Rededication 2010

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Research Acknowledgements:

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale;
C. Sanders;
Dorothy Hall;
Elaine Naylor;
Bill Craddock;
George Nairn

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Names Documents:

EPPLETON   All Saint’s Church

 

 Remember ye with thanksgiving & with all honour before God & men those sailors and soldiers who gave their lives

 for their country in the Great War, 1914-1919, especially those of this congregation & this parish to whose memory and

 the memory of the late Miss Lishman this window is dedicated and their names are here recorded.

  Column 1                  Column 2                 Column 3

 

  Anderson, Charles Walton  Curry, William Allen     Hopper, Wilfred          

  Anderson, George          Davey, James             Hogg, Ralph              

  Anderson, Edmund          Dixon, Isaac             Hourigan, John           

  Armstrong, Henry          Donelly, Michael         Hunter, Charles Henry    

  Ashcroft, John George     Downey, Albert           Hunter, Edmund           

  Aspinall, Charles         Elliott, Joseph          Hunter, George Clarkson  

  Atkinson, George          Evans, Ruben             Hunter, William          

  Atkinson, Thomas          Ferguson, Isaac          Hutchinson, John         

  Atkinson, William         Garrett, Dixon           Joyce, James             

  Bennett, Walter           Garrett, Thompson        Kirby, James             

  Berrisford, Thomas        Geddes, John William     Lambton, Ernest James    

  Birbeck, William          George, Nathaniel        Lawson, George William   

  Bond, Frederick           Gibbon, Thomas           Lawson, James Heslop     

  Bolton, John              Gibson, George           Lawson, Michael          

  Borthwick Edward          Grimshaw, Peter Passmore Lawson, Robert           

  Borthwick Walter          Guy, Robert              Lewins, Frederick Norman

  Bowdon, William Henry     Hall, Austin             Lowery, Joseph           

  Briggs, James Bolton      Hall, Charles William    Mallaburn, Thomas        

  Cartwright, Norman        Hall, William            Mason, Richard           

  Chicken, Stanley          Hartell, Richard         Matthews, Thomas         

  Cook, Amos Jones          Hawxby, John Thomas      McCune, Fred.            

  Cook, Robert              Higginson, Thomas        McGovern, John           

  Cummings, John Harrison   Hodgson Anthony          McGregor, Ralph          

——————————————————————————-

  Column 4                  Column 5

  Murray, James             Stitt, Andrew

  Nelson, Thomas Henry      Storey, John

  Nichol, William           Storey, John

  Oldham, Nicholas          Storey, Taylor

  Paisley, William          Storey, Robert Hall

  Pearson, James Robert     Strachan, Leslie

  Pearson, Thomas           Straughan, Thomas

  Pickering, William        Tate, Joseph William

  Pratt, Thomas Smith       Teed, Joseph

  Prince, George            Thompson, James

  Purvis, Alfred            Thompson, Robert

  Purdy, Joseph             Valks, Thomas

  Richardson, Ralph         Waggit, John

  Rompen, Oscar             Waller, Samuel

  Ross, Alexander           Wellock, Arthur Milton

  Scarth, John Mallen       White, John

  Shannon, John William     Wheatley, Joseph

  Simpson, Nicholas         Wheatley, John Robert

  Smith, Ernest Anthony     Wilkinson, Samuel

  Smith, Henry              Wood, William

  Southgate, Francis George Worthington, John Ferguson

  Squires, Fenwick          Hardy, Robert William

  Stanwix, Thomas Arthur        

 

  “Their name liveth for evermore”.   Ecclestiasticus Chap. 44 verse 14

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