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Plaque 1914-18 Central Primitive Methodist

Reference

H51.10

Place

HEXHAM

Map ref

NY 935640

Original Location

Central Primitive Methodist Church, at the corner of Battle Hill and Beaumont Street.

Present Location

Trinity Methodist Church, Beaumont Street. Left hand plaque of two to the left of the pulpit.

Which war

1914-18

Memorial Description

Plaque 18� inches high x 22 inches wide with shallow triangular extension at centre top. The main brass panel is divided into three at the top, with the quotation appearing in cartouches in the two outer sections, and the dedication in the middle, the top line of which is arched and outlined with a wavy thin line. In the lower half of the plaque the names are listed in two columns inside an elaborate border using Roman capitals.

Materials used

Brass mounted on wood.

Inscription

Left panel:
Come / unto me
Right panel:
I will give / you rest
Centre panel:
To the Glory of God / and in / grateful remembrance / of the men of this / church and school / who fell in the / Great War / 1914-1918 Greater love hath no man than this, / that a man lay down his life for his / friends.

Names

10 full names.
See transcript.

Present condition

Good

Sculptor, Artist or Designer

E.H. Thew of Newcastle.

Notes

1. This plaque was removed from the 1909 Central Primitive Methodist Church at the corner of Battle Hill and Beaumont Street when it was closed for worship on 28th December 1952.

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photos: C.N. Dallison

Sources of quotations :
�Come unto me and I will give you rest� St. Matthew 11 v 28;
�Greater love hath no man than this . . .� St. John�s Gospel 15 v 13

Research acknowledgements

The late Ken and Dorothy Southern; Colin Dallison

Research In Progress

Alan Grint has researched the names on the Hexham memorials in his book The Faith and Fire Within, 2006, Ergo Press ISBN 0955275814 Contact:-Cogito books 01434 602555

Plaque 1914-18 Central Primitive Methodist (H51.10)

HEXHAM, Primitive Methodist Church.

             To the glory of God

             and in

             grateful remembrance

             of the men of this

   Come      Church and School    I will give

   unto me   who fell in the      you rest

             Great War

               1914  -  1918

   Thomas W. Burn       Frederick Robson

   Adolph Forster       Thomas W. Smith

   Fred Gibson          John E. Thompson

   Thomas Pigg          Ernest Walton

   John E. Robson       Alfred T.A. Noble

   Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

NamesH51.10

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