Memorial Details

Stained Glass Window 1939-45 Methodist

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HAYDON BRIDGE

NY 843643

Methodist Chapel, Church Street.

See Note 1 below.

1939-45

Four windows, 294cm high each 88cm wide. Each has a stained glass border which forms an arch at the top. In the centre of the two outer lights is a shield shape, with the date "1939" in gold on the left window and "1945" in gold on the right window. The window second from left is a scene commemorating the fallen, depicting a knight in armour facing an archangel across the river above the New Jerusalem, with 2 angels blowing trumpets. On a scroll across the archangel is the text "Glory to God and on earth peace". The quotation underneath the picture is in black Roman capitals.
At the foot of the window is the dedication and list of names, painted in black Roman capitals, with some letters illuminated. The window third from left commemorates those who returned from war, and depicts a knight wearing the whole armour of God, standing on a slain dragon, and receiving the Crown of Victory from Christ. In the top left hand corner is the text "Life for evermore". Beneath the picture is the text, painted in large Roman capitals.
At the foot of the window is the dedication, painted in black Roman capitals, with some letters illuminated.

1st window
1939
2nd window
So they passed over and all / the trumpets sounded for them / on the other side. To the glory of God and in honoured memory of those / associated with this church who made the supreme sacrifice
3rd window
Well done + thou / good and faithful / servant. In grateful commemoration / of all the young men and women connected / with this church who served and who were / mercifully spared in the Second World War.
4th window
1945.

1. The new church has been built on the site of the old building which was demolished in May 1996. However, the stained glass windows and the organ from that building were kept and have been included in the new structure

Photos: C.M. Dallison; Brian Chandler

Hexham Courant 13/02/1998 reports demolition of old building and retention of war memorial features.

Sources of quotations
“Glory to God and on earth peace” adapted from Luke 2 v 14;
“So they passed over and . . .” Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan;
“Well done, thou good . . .”Matthew 25 v 21

C.N. Dallison; Brian Chandler

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HAYDON BRIDGE, Methodist Chapel.

1st window: 

   1939

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2nd window: 

   So they passed over and all 

   the trumpets sounded for them 

   on the other side. 

   To  the  glory  of  God  and  in  honoured  memory  of  those 

   associated  with  this  church who made the  supreme sacrifice

   Alexander Bates  Thomas Frederick Bell  James Edward Brown

   Percy Brown      Horace Lax             John Sidney Mason

   Joseph Hector Philipson   Frederick Steel  Oscar Wardle

   Joseph Charlton Wylie

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3rd window: 

   Well done + thou 

   good and faithful 

   servant.

   In grateful commemoration

   of all the young men and women connected

   with this church who served and who were

   mercifully spared in the Second World War.

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4th window: 

   1945.

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