Memorial

Plaque 1939-45 St. Andrew

Haughton le Skerne

Memorial Name: Plaque 1939-45 St. Andrew (H117.02)

NEWMP Ref No.: H117.02

Parish: Haughton le Skerne

Original Location:

St. Andrew’s Church, Haughton Road / Salters Lane South.

On south wall of nave.

Which War:

1939-45

Materials Used:

Oak

Cost:

£70

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Thompson of Kilburn, the mouse man.

Inscription:

1939-1945
Remember with gratitude
(Names)

Memorial Description:

Plaque with extremely elaborate carved border.

The dates and invocation are in red lettering, the rest in black.

The names are listed in two columns in Roman capitals.

In the top border, right of centre, is a carved mouse, trade mark of Thompson of Kilburn.

Names:

20 full names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. The first faculty allowed the main tablet to be erected.

2. The second faculty was to allow the name of Harry Innes to be inserted. There was room for the name, but it meant the removal and replacing of the memorial so the work could be carried out. Cost £41.50 for engraving and lettering.

Sources:

Photo: Simon Raine

Diocese of Durham Faculty
Number 3748, issued 16/11/1954.
Number 8047, issued 27/10/1995

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

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

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Names Documents:

HAUGHTON LE SKERNE St. Andrew’s Church

 

  1939 – 1945

  Remember with gratitude

 

  Gordon Bage             Cecil Parlett

  Richard Danby Barrow    George Arthur Porteus

  John Blair              Arthur Edmund Ramshaw

  Victor George Gent      Norman Harold Ripley

  Henry Guy               Ernest Robson

  Wilfred Hall            Theodore Burdett Robson

  George David Hardy      William Stephenson

  John Heathwaite         Thomas Waiton

  Allan Holmes            Fred Wilkinson

  Selwyn Jaques Lupton    Harry Innes.

NamesH117.02

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