Memorial

Lychgate 1939-45 St. Stephen’s Churchyard

Willington Wear Valley

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

NEWMP Ref No.: W120.04

Parish: Willington Wear Valley

Original Location:

St. Stephen’s Church, Low Willington.

In churchyard

Which War:

1939-45

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.

Memorial Description:

Lychgate with stone walls and very mellow lichened slate roof.

On the inside walls are two plaques 37 inches high x 28 inches wide (95cms x 72cms), one bearing the names and the other bearing the dedication.

The lettering is incised using Roman capitals throughout.

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. They are now inside St. Stephen’s church.

Sources:

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

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

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

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Names Documents:

 

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.

  —————————————

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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