Memorial

Chancel Screen 1914-18 St. John the Evangelist

Meadowfield

Memorial Name: Chancel Screen 1914-18 St. John the Evangelist (M50.05)

NEWMP Ref No.: M50.05

Parish: Meadowfield

Original Location:

Church of St. John the Evangelist, Lobley Hill Road / St. John’s Road.

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled 6th May 1920 by Prof. F. Hobday, FRCVS., CMG., (Hon. Major) of London.
Dedicated by Archdeacon Derry, Rector of Sedgefield.

Materials Used:

Wrought iron screen, stone base, brass plaques.

Cost:

Cost of all memorials was £600.

Inscription:

To the Glory of God and in sacred memory of those who
gave their lives for humanity in the Great War 1914 – 1918.

Their name liveth for evermore

Memorial Description:

Chancel screen 36 inches high x 114 inches long (91cms x 290cms) on sandstone stone wall 24 inches high (61cms).

The gates bear the Greek letters Alpha and Omega.

The names of those who died are carried on five brass plaques, each 10 inches high x 24 inches wide (25cms x 61cms), with a similar plaque bearing the dedication, fixed to the front of the wall below the screen.

Lettering is in Roman capitals.

Names:

125 full names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. The plaques bearing the names are in sequence apart from the one for names S – W, which is at the left. It is possible that this was moved when the pulpit was inserted in 1969.

2. The men named are from Langley Moor, Boyne, Littleburn, Meadowfield, Browney and Brandon Villages.

3. The name “Atkingson” on the plaque should, we think, be “Atkinson”. There are no entries for “Atkingson” in the CWGC files.

Sources:

Photos: Simon Raine; C. Sanders; Karen Redhead; James Pasby

Durham Chronicle
14/05/1920 reports unveiling.

Durham County Advertiser
14/05/1920 reports unveiling

Illustrated Chronicle
08/05/1920 reports unveiling.

Northern Echo
07/05/1920 reports unveiling.

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

Source of quotation
“Their name liveth for evermore Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus 44

Sources Link: Illustrated Chronicle 05 08 Sat -1920
Sources Link: Northern Echo 1920 05 07 Fri

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale;
C. Sanders;
Karen Redhead;
Dorothy Hall;
Tony Harding

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Names Documents:

MEADOWFIELD St. John the Evangelist Church

 

Plaque 1

  

  To the Glory of God and in sacred memory of those who

  gave their lives for humanity in the Great War 1914 – 1918.

  their name liveth for evermore

  R.I.P.

 ————————————————————

Plaque 2

   

   John Addison          Thomas Bage           George W. Beresford

   Arthur C. Adamson     Walter Baines         Thomas H. Beresford

   Thomas Adamson        James Barras          Norman Birkett

   John Allison          James Barron          James Bond

   Wilfred Appleby       George Barrow         Jonathan Bond

   Joseph Armstrong      James F. Basey        Edward Brown

   John Atkingson        John Beaver           George A. Brown

 ————————————————————

Plaque 3

   

   Leonard Brown         Robert P. Craggs      Thomas Dickinson         

   Richard Brown         Samuel Culley         Fred Ditchburn              

   Stephen Burdess       John Davies           Thomas Dodds                

   Thomas Chilton        Alec Daglish          John Eales                   

   George S. Clarke      Harry Dickinson C.F.  Robert Farthing   

   John Cockburn         John Dent             James Ferguson                  

   Thomas Cockburn       John W. Dickinson     Arthur Freeman          

 ————————————————————

Plaque 4

  

   William Gardner       Thomas Hardy          George Humphrey

   William H. Gent       William C.H. Hardy    Thomas Humphrey

   David Gleghorn        Ralph Harland         Joseph Hunter

   Harry Greenwell       Joseph Hedley         Walter Jobling

   Harry Grocock         Stephen Halliday      Edward Kelly

   Arthur Guyll          George Hooper         Isaac Kenny

   George Hall           Richard Houghton      John Knowles

 ————————————————————

Plaque 5

   

   Robert Leighton       John Lumley           Joseph Moses                

   Bertie S.B. Liddle    William P. Lumley     Robert Moses       

   Reginald Liddle       Robert Malone         John T. Murray            

   John Liptrot          Joseph Madgin         Joseph Musgrave              

   George A. Lockney     John W. Mavin         William Nesbitt         

   Tom Lockey            Leonard Morris        William Newton                

   William Lofthouse     Stephen Moses         Joseph Oley             

 ————————————————————

Plaque 6

 

   George Ovington       John T. Ridley        Elijah Sayers

   Henry Pearson         Bartholomew Robson    Harold Schofield

   Richard Potts         Charles M. Robson     Jack Sherrington

   Walter G.A.Ransome Priest  Harry S. Robson  George R. Simpson

   Matthew Reaveley      William H. Robson     Thomas W. Simpson

   Robert Reay           William Robson (B.V.) Frankland Smith

   Thomas E. Richardson  William Robson (BRY.) John T. Smith  

 ————————————————————

Plaque 7

   

   John Staff            George W. Vardy       Thomas Watson                

   Matthew Stobbart      William K. Walton (L) Samuel Wetherall

   Fred Storey           Robert Wallett        John W. Wood                 

   John J. Suggett       Robert Warkman        Oliver Wrightson         

   Arthur Teeder         Harry Ward                                 

   James Temple          Robert Warner                               

   Charles E. Todd       Ernest Warner                          

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