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Memorial

Lychgate 1939-45 St. Stephen's Churchyard

Reference

W120.04

Place

WILLINGTON

Map ref

NZ 209351

Original Location

St. Stephen�s Church, Low Willington. In churchyard

Which war

1939-45

Memorial Description

Lychgate with stone walls and very mellow lichened slate roof.
On the inside walls are two plaques 95mm high x 72mm wide, one bearing the names and the other bearing the dedication.
The lettering is incised using Roman capitals throughout.

Materials used

Stone and slate. Bronze plaques.

Inscription

1939-1945. / In memory of / the fallen who names are / inscribed on the panel opposite / and in thanksgiving / for those who returned / in safety.

Names

35 full names.
See transcript.

Notes

1. One correspondent says the plaques are of bronze, another says they are made of steel.

2. The plaques are no longer in the lychgate due to vandalism. The plaques are inside St. Stephen's church.

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photos: C. Sanders; Simon Raine; James Pasby

The Monumental Brasses of County Durham William Lack, H. Martin Stuchfield and Philip Whittemore 2002 ISBN 095 4327101

External web link

Durham at War

Weardale Museum

Additional Notes

James Pasby and Dorothy Hall visited 01/11/2017 and re-photographed.

Research acknowledgements

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale; C. Sanders; John and Mavis Dixon; Dorothy Hall

Research In Progress

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Lychgate 1939-45 St. Stephen's Churchyard (W120.04)

First panel:

   1939-1945

   In memory of

   the fallen whose names are

   inscribed on the panel opposite

   and in thanksgiving

   for those who have returned

   in safety.

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Second panel:

   Arthur Scott Adamson      Frank Johnson

   Charles Richard Adamson   Frederick Johnson

   Ernest William Aspinall   John Robert Jopling

   Joseph William Blackburn  Dennis Lee

   Henry  Blackett           Robert Ernest Letby

   Robert Jackson Blackett   Joseph Palliser

   Joseph Bond               Frank Pallister

   Edward Brown              William Perkins

   James Christon            Fred Richards

   George William Clark      James Rutter

   Addison Cockerill         Joseph William Simpson

   Robert Clasper Cottrell   James Stonehouse

   Thomas Davison            Sidney Suffield

   John Nixon Glendinning    Herbert Henry Watson

   Frederick Hardy           Laura Mary Watson

   Norton Harle              Samuel Robert Weir

   Elizabeth Jackson         Oswald Littlewood Young

   Selwyn Jackson

NamesW120.04

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