Memorial Details
Memorial
Stained Glass Windows 1914-18 St. George Presbyterian
Reference
S140.054
Place
SUNDERLAND
Map ref
NZ 562396
Original Location
St. George’s Presbyterian Church Stockton Road, Ashbrooke, Sunderland,
Present Location
St.George's United Reformed Church
Which war
1914-18
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
Unveiled 29th June 1921 by Mr. R.A. Bartram dedicated by Rev. J. Miller Craig.
Memorial Description
Two stained glass windows, each c18 feet high x 7 feet 4 inches wide, and each of two lights. Each light carries two scenes with a text below each. The names are carried in panels at the foot of each light, with the panel blackened and the lettering in gilt on top.
Windows depict Victory and Peace.
Window one has a kneeling angel at the top of both light. The scenes are:
(Top left) Jesus calming the waves, with the text ‘He arose and rebuked the wind and / said unto the sea, Peace, Be still’;
(Bottom left) : soldiers with spears and a blacksmith at the forefront, with the text ‘They shall beat their swords into plow shares / and their spears into pruning hooks’.
(Top right) an angel appearing to the shepherds and the text ‘Glory to God in the highest and on / earth peace good will toward men’.
( Bottom right) a farmer sowing seeds with the text ‘Nation shall not lift up sword against nation / neither shall they learn war any more’.
Window Two has scenes of:
(Top left) a crowned figure with his arms raised looking towards some people, with the text ‘Blessed be the most high God who hath / delivered thine enemies into thy hand’;
(Bottom left) Jesus sending Satan away with the text ‘Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written / Thou shalt worship the Lord Thy God’.
(Top right) the angel at the tomb with the women, and the text ‘Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth which was / crucified. He is risen, he is not here’.
(Bottom right) Jesus healing the sick with the text ‘Jesus went about all Galilee healing all / manner of sickness and all manner of diseases’.
Windows depict Victory and Peace.
Window one has a kneeling angel at the top of both light. The scenes are:
(Top left) Jesus calming the waves, with the text ‘He arose and rebuked the wind and / said unto the sea, Peace, Be still’;
(Bottom left) : soldiers with spears and a blacksmith at the forefront, with the text ‘They shall beat their swords into plow shares / and their spears into pruning hooks’.
(Top right) an angel appearing to the shepherds and the text ‘Glory to God in the highest and on / earth peace good will toward men’.
( Bottom right) a farmer sowing seeds with the text ‘Nation shall not lift up sword against nation / neither shall they learn war any more’.
Window Two has scenes of:
(Top left) a crowned figure with his arms raised looking towards some people, with the text ‘Blessed be the most high God who hath / delivered thine enemies into thy hand’;
(Bottom left) Jesus sending Satan away with the text ‘Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written / Thou shalt worship the Lord Thy God’.
(Top right) the angel at the tomb with the women, and the text ‘Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth which was / crucified. He is risen, he is not here’.
(Bottom right) Jesus healing the sick with the text ‘Jesus went about all Galilee healing all / manner of sickness and all manner of diseases’.
Inscription
Window one:
Top left: The Lord will give strength to His people
Top right: The Lord will bless his people with peace.
Window two:
Top left: Thine O Lord is the greatness and the
Top right : Power and the Glory and the Victory.
Across bottom of both lights:
To the glory of God and in / loving and honoured memory of / sons of this church who fell / during the Great War 1914-1919
“They loved not their / lives unto the death”.
Top left: The Lord will give strength to His people
Top right: The Lord will bless his people with peace.
Window two:
Top left: Thine O Lord is the greatness and the
Top right : Power and the Glory and the Victory.
Across bottom of both lights:
To the glory of God and in / loving and honoured memory of / sons of this church who fell / during the Great War 1914-1919
“They loved not their / lives unto the death”.
Names
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: Simon Raine; C. Sanders; James Pasby
Sunderland Echo 30/06/1921 reports unveiling. (Available on The British Newspaper Archive)
Northern Echo 30/06/1921 briefly reports unveiling.
History of the Presbytery of Durham F.H. Hawkins. In Tyne and Wear Archives Ref: L4425/Religion.
Sources of quotations
“The Lord will give strength to his people” Psalm 29 v 11.
“The Lord will bless his people with peace” Psalm 29 v 11;
“Thine O lord is the greatness . . .Victory” I Chronicles 29 v 11;
“They loved not their lives . .” Revelation 12 v 11
Sunderland Echo 30/06/1921 reports unveiling. (Available on The British Newspaper Archive)
Northern Echo 30/06/1921 briefly reports unveiling.
History of the Presbytery of Durham F.H. Hawkins. In Tyne and Wear Archives Ref: L4425/Religion.
Sources of quotations
“The Lord will give strength to his people” Psalm 29 v 11.
“The Lord will bless his people with peace” Psalm 29 v 11;
“Thine O lord is the greatness . . .Victory” I Chronicles 29 v 11;
“They loved not their lives . .” Revelation 12 v 11
External web link
Research acknowledgements
C.Sanders; Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale; James Pasby; Dorothy Hall
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Stained Glass Windows 1914-18 St. George Presbyterian (S140.054)
SUNDERLAND St. George’s Presbyterian Church
Window one
The Lord will give strength to His people The Lord will bless his people with peace.
He arose and rebuked the wind and Glory of God in the highest and on
said unto the sea Peace Be still earth peace good will toward men
They shall beat their swords into plow shares Nation shall not lift up sword against nation
and their spears into pruning hooks. neither shall they learn war any more.
To the glory of God and in loving and honoured memory of
James Kinnaird Mitchell James Horan Robertson Charles Stuart John Dobson Weatherhead
John Nelson Matthew Struan Robertson Herbert Thompson Robert Wilson
Henry Nesbit John Hanson Sinclair Andrew Robert Wood
sons of this church who fell during the Great War 1914-1919
They loved not their lives unto the death.
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Window two
Thine O Lord is the greatness and the Power and the Glory and the Victory.
Blessed be the most high God who hath Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth which was
delivered thine enemies into thy hand crucified. He is risen, he is not here.
Get thee hence Satan for it is written Jesus went about all Galilee healing all
Thou shalt worship the Lord Thy God. manner of sickness and all manner of diseases.
To the glory of God and in loving and honoured memory of
William Burlinson David William Forbes Thomas Ellis Harrison Edward Phillips McIndoe
Robert Percy Cranston John Forbes Edward Ernest Hastie Samuel Walter McKenna
Murray Dalrymple Gowland Clark Grieff William Wilson Hedley Douglas Mitchell
sons of this church who fell during the Great War 1914-1919
They loved not their lives unto the death.
Names S140.54
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