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Stained Glass Window 1939-45 St. Paul

Reference

H116.02

Place

HASWELL

Original Location

St. Paul�s Church, west wall of church.

Which war

1939-45

Dedication, Creation or Publication date

Unveiled and dedicated September 1947 by Dr. Cyril Alington, Dean of Durham.

Memorial Description

Stained glass window of four lights with three oculi above. In the topmost oculus is Christ in glory, with angels in the lower two oculi, with the glorious rays coming from God into the four main lights which depict eleven disciples, individually named, either kneeling or standing, kneeling and looking upwards.
Each light has at the top the winged symbol of the four evangelists: an eagle (St.John); lion (St.Mark); bull (St.Luke); man (St. Matthew). The dedication is carried on a scroll at the bottom of the two inner lights. At the bottom of the two central lights is a scroll giving the details.
Underneath is a brass plaque 14 inches high x 40 inches wide bearing the Binyon quotation.
Beneath this are two vertical brass plaques on plain wood pattresses each 26 inches high x 16 inches wide. These bear the names listed in a single column on each, using Roman capitals.

Materials used

Brass plaques

Inscription

On window:
This window was / erected to the / memory of those / from this parish / who fell in the / Second World War 1939-1945

On plaque:
They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old; / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun and in the morning, / We will remember them.

Names

28 surnames and initials.
See transcript.

Cost

�370

How money was raised

Public subscription.

Sculptor, Artist or Designer

Millican, Baguley and Atkinson Ltd.

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photos: Simon Raine, C.Sanders; Dorothy Hall

Durham Chronicle 12/09/1947 reports unveiling.

Source of quotation:
�They shall grow not old . . .� For the Fallen Lawrence Binyon.

External web link

Durham at War

Research acknowledgements

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale; Dorothy Hall

Research In Progress

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Stained Glass Window 1939-45 St. Paul (H116.02)

HASWELL     St. Paul’s Church

On window

   This window was        erected to the

   memory of those        from this parish

   who fell in the        Second World War

   1939-1945

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On horizontal plaque

   They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old;

   Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn

   At the going down of the sun and in the morning,

   We will remember them.

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On vertical plaques

   The Fallen              The Fallen

   C.A.G. Armstrong        J. Mitchell

   J.M. Barrass            W. Parry

   A.S. Burt               R. Parry

   J. Coils                J.G. Saiger

   W. Copeland             T. Saiger

   W.L. Coxon              J. Skipsey

   W.E. Cummin             D. Sleep

   T. Dobson               A.S. Strandberg

   G. Gasgoigne            T.H. Stewart

   I. Gibbons              E.M. Turner

   H.N. Gustard            J. Wallwork

   W.H. Hindmarsh          L. Whitfield

   E.W. Hopgood            W. Williams

   S. McCallum             A. Young

NamesH116.02

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