Memorial

Plaque 1914-18 St. Paul

West Hartlepool

Memorial Name: Plaque 1914-18 St. Paul (W111.020)

NEWMP Ref No.: W111.020

Parish: West Hartlepool

Original Location:

St. Paul’s Church, Grange Road

Which War:

1914-18

Materials Used:

Wood

Inscription:

To the Glory of
God
and in honoured
memory of our
brethren who
worshipped here
and laid down
their lives in the
Great War
1914-1918.

God proved them and found them worthy of Himself.

Memorial Description:

Plaque.

It has a very elaborately carved and traceried frame of carved vines and grapes.

The central panel has a cross carved in the top half, with the initials “A.M.D.C.” in the four quarters. In the lower half is the dedication.

The names are carried in a single column on each of the two flanking panels which are of darker wood.

The names are incised and gilded Roman capitals.

The quotation is carried in large Gothic capitals along the bottom border.

Names:

76 full names.
See transcript.

Sources:

Photos: Simon Raine; C. Sanders; Dorothy Hall

The Story Durham (formerly Durham County Record Office)
Hodgson Fowler (architects)
(West) Hartlepool: St. Paul’s Church
Ref: D/HF 90/32 Details of war memorial, February 1920 One inch scale [1:12] (1 plan, 24.5cm x 37cm, pencil, tracing paper)
Ref: D/HF 90/33 Details of war memorial, February 1922 Full size (1 plan, 62cm x 40cm, pencil, tracing paper)
Ref No. D/HF 90/35 Amended design for war memorial, June 1923 One inch scale [1:12] (1 plan, 38cm x 34cm, pencil, tracing paper)
Ref: D/HF 90/36 Details of war memorial, January 1924 Full size (1 plan, 74cm x 52cm, pencil)
Ref: D/HF 90/37 Details of war memorial, January 1924 Full size (1 plan, 76cm x 52cm, pencil)
Ref: D/HF 90/38 Detail of panels, war memorial, March 1924 Full size (1 plan, 56cm x 109cm, pencil)
Ref: D/HF 90/39 Details of inscription on war memorial, March 1924 Full size (1 plan, 151cm x 19cm, pencil)
Ref: D/HF 90/40 Details of inscription on war memorial, May 1924 Full size (1 plan, 38cm x 50cm, pencil)
Ref: D/HF 90/100 Notes on inscription on war memorial, n..d (1 paper)
Ref: D/HF 90/101 Details of war memorial, n.d. One inch scale [1:12] (1 plan, 33.5cm x 35cm, pencil, tracing paper)

Source of quotation
 “God proved them and . . .” : Apocrypha, Book of Wisdom 111 v 5

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale;
C. Sanders

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Names Documents:

WEST HARTLEPOOL   St. Paul’s Church

 

  Adams  Gordon           A         M        Mason  Heseltine

  Batchelor  Alan W.                         Maunder  Charles

  Blyth  Robert L.                           Maunder  Victor

  Brown  Jacob            D         G        McCulloch  William

  Boyce  William H.                          Mitchell  William

  Blades  Thomas                             Newton  William H.

  Blair  Alexander                           Parkinson  Alfred

  Cook  Leonard                              Parr  Noel Geoffry

  Carr  Thomas                               Parr  Norman Edward

  Charlton  William                          Pickard  Arthur George

  Cummins  Valentine                         Plaice  Herbert

  Cutter  William J.                         Perry  John

  Clarke  Allan                              Richardson  John

  Crosby  John M.                            Robinson  John J.

  Donachie  Robert                           Read  George H.

  Dixon  H. Percy                            Roberts  William

  Fairey  George W.                          Robinson  Eustace D.S.

  Frankland  J. Percy                        Sanderson  Henry Herbert

  Featherstone  E.J.                         Story  Robert

  Fordham  George        To the Glory of     Sanders  George

  Fairfoot  H. Bulmer                        Stewart  James C.

  Groves  Thomas G.         God              Storr  William J.

  Greathead  Clarence                        Smurthwaite  Oscar

  Hollis  Thomas         and in honoured     Shippin  William

  Hall  Bertram                              Toms  A.E.

  Hargreaves  Clifford   memory of  our      Todd  George H.

  Holden  A. Oliver                          Thoren  Ivor

  Hewitson  Jack         brethren who        Tindale  Oswald B.

  Hauxwell  Bruce                            Thompson  Thomas M.

  Hauxwell  Stanley      worshipped here     Upton  R. Osmond

  Hughes  Fred                               Valks  Alfred

  Harrison  Charles H.   and laid down       Witten  Richard Arthur

  Hutson  Harold                             Wake  George

  Jenkins  Bertram H.    their lives in the  Walton  William

  Jenkins  Matthew                           Webster  Thomas

  Jack  Malcolm          Great War           Witton  William

  Keady  John                                Weatherburn  William G.

  Kendall  George        1914-1918.          Young  Cyril R.M.

 

  God proved them and found them worthy of Himself.

NamesW111.20   

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