Memorial Details
Memorial
Plaque 1914-18 St. Peter
Reference
M46.22
Place
MONKWEARMOUTH
Map ref
NZ 401577
Original Location
Church of St. Peter, St. Peter’s Way.
Which war
1914-18
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
Unveiled 15th Feb. 1920 by Sir James Marr, Bart.
Memorial Description
Plaque, which formerly accompanied the west window (M46.01). There is a wide border with rosettes at intervals, and a narrower version of this subdivides the plaque into four panels. The top horizontal one bears the dedication with a cross at centre. Below this, three further vertical panels bear the names in two columns on each. The dedication is in black Gothic lettering. The names are in Roman capitals.
Materials used
Brass?
Inscription
Remember ye with thanksgiving and with all / honour before God and men, those soldiers and sailors who / gave their lives for their Country in the Great War / 1914-1919, especially those of this congregation / and parish to whose memory this window is / dedicated, and their names are here recorded.
Names
Present condition
Lost in a fire in the 1960s.
Notes
1. The panel was removed and replaced by a Book of Remembrance.
2. “This was a wooden tablet and for some reason became so decrepit and worn that it ‘fell to bits’ and was cast out, according to the verger”. (Simon Raine)
3. A message from Sharon Vincent tells us:
I gave a talk to Monkwearmouth Local History Group about the war memorial that used to be in St Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland (M46.22).
A member of the audience had this to say: He was born in 1929 and as his mother was a devout member of the congregation, he was taken to the church at every opportunity and could remember the memorial in the years before the Second World War. He said it had a brass border all the way round that must have been 10 inches deep which the churchwardens kept highly polished and it was the bright shine of the metal that he remembers most from his childhood. However, during the metal collections of the Second World War, he believes the brass was removed and sent away for the war effort. Without the brass frame holding the wooden structure together, this may have added to the rapid deterioration of the memorial?
2. “This was a wooden tablet and for some reason became so decrepit and worn that it ‘fell to bits’ and was cast out, according to the verger”. (Simon Raine)
3. A message from Sharon Vincent tells us:
I gave a talk to Monkwearmouth Local History Group about the war memorial that used to be in St Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland (M46.22).
A member of the audience had this to say: He was born in 1929 and as his mother was a devout member of the congregation, he was taken to the church at every opportunity and could remember the memorial in the years before the Second World War. He said it had a brass border all the way round that must have been 10 inches deep which the churchwardens kept highly polished and it was the bright shine of the metal that he remembers most from his childhood. However, during the metal collections of the Second World War, he believes the brass was removed and sent away for the war effort. Without the brass frame holding the wooden structure together, this may have added to the rapid deterioration of the memorial?
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Sunderland Daily Echo 14/02/1920 reports unveiling tomorrow.
Northern Echo 16/02/1920 reports dedication.
St. Peter’s Church and the Wearmouth-Jarrow Monastery. Church Guide by Revd. Stuart G. Hill.
A Handbook Historical and Descriptive of The Church of St. Peter, Monkwearmouth, AD 672-AD 1915 by James Patterson Third edition, revised, 1920, Sunderland, The Hills Press Ltd., Holmeside.
Northern Echo 16/02/1920 reports dedication.
St. Peter’s Church and the Wearmouth-Jarrow Monastery. Church Guide by Revd. Stuart G. Hill.
A Handbook Historical and Descriptive of The Church of St. Peter, Monkwearmouth, AD 672-AD 1915 by James Patterson Third edition, revised, 1920, Sunderland, The Hills Press Ltd., Holmeside.
External web link
Links to Source Material :
Research acknowledgements
The late Dr. R.A. Gould, C. Sanders; Alan Vickers; James Pasby; Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale; Sharon Vincent
Research In Progress
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Plaque 1914-18 St. Peter (M46.22)
MONKWEARMOUTH St. Peter’s Church
The accuracy of this transcript is not guaranteed.
Is has been transcribed from a very poor photocopy.
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At the top
Remember ye with thanksgiving and with all
honour before God and men, those soldiers and sailors who
gave their lives for their Country in the Great War
1914-1919, especially those of this congregation
and parish to whose memory this window is
dedicated, and their names are here recorded.
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Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
William E. Agar John Chilson John W. Green
Jacob Aldridge Colin C. Craggs Robert Green
William Appleby Joseph M.S. Crichton Thomas C.M. Green
James Arkley Clement W. Crown Edward Gregson
John Arkley Thomas H. Cummins Robert N. Herdman
Robert Ball Thomas David John Hern
Henry Barrass William Dove T.W. Hetherington
William Barrass John Doxford Albert Hill
John J. Berwick Jacob W. Dunlop Henry Hill
Jack Beven Thompson Easson Richard Hipwood
Thomas Bolton John English Charles H. Hogg
Frederick H. Brewis Joseph Errington William J. Hornsby
William M. Brewis George ? Frederick Hull
Albert V. Brown Jonathan Fenwick Edward Hutchinson
William Brown George Foulkes Arthur Hutchinson
William Brown James Foulkes John Hutchinson
Joseph Burlinson Gideon Fraser Peter Hutchinson
Robert Cain Samuel Gibson Thomas Hutchinson
Randolph A. Candlish Francis Gordon James Ironside
Edward Canning Richard Gordon Reginald Iley
Robert Carr John T. Green Frederick Jobling
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Column 4 Column 5 Column 6
Joseph Jobling John M. Phillips Frank C. Stephenson
Thomas Jobling Philip Phipps Charles Stephenson
Thomas Keeler John Preece Thomas W. Stewart
Robert Latimer Robinson A. Price John Tarbet
William A. Law Charles T. Pyle William Tarbet
Joseph H. Ling John W. Reay George Thompson
Robert W. Longstaff Thomas H. Renney Robert Thompson
Mark Lowther George H. Renwick Thomas Thompson
Alan M. McLagan Francis W. Richardson William Todd
Edwin Mapstone John G. Rennison John C. Tulloch
Leonard Middlemiss Thomas Robinson John Turnbull
Charles Miller Ralph W. Robinson George Waller
William C. Milne Clement Rose George C. Watson
John Moffatt George John Watson
John E. Moore Matthew Rowley John E. Watson
John Morton John Sawyer John K. Watson
? ? George M. Slater Thomas Williams
William E. Mushens John Smith John D. White
Joseph Newby Ernest Smith William White
John Newton William Smith Joseph Willoughby
? ? ? ? ? ? ?
NamesM46.22
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