Memorial

Plaque 1914-18 Durham Road Wesleyan Methodist

Gateshead

Memorial Name: Plaque 1914-18 Durham Road Wesleyan Methodist (G39.041)

NEWMP Ref No.: G39.041

Parish: Gateshead

Original Location:

Wesleyan Methodist Church. Low Fell, Durham Road, opposite junction with Albert Drive.

Present Location:

Unknown

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled 1st December 1919 by Colonel F.R. Simpson

Materials Used:

Brass on oak pattress

Inscription:

(Dedicated to members who fell)

Memorial Description:

Plaque

Names:

14 names, ranks and regiments.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. 1882 snecked tooled sandstone with Welsh slate roofs. Symmetrical west front has tall central gabled bay and flanking smaller bays with octagonal attics above eaves which are broken by lancets under trefoils. Pointed, banded roofs. Central recess has rose window over three lancets; and flanking single lancets. Three tiny stepped lancets in gable peak. Two pointed arched doorways. A pleasing and individual adaptation of early Gothic. LISTED GRADE 2

Sources:

Newcastle Weekly Chronicle
06/12/1919 reports unveiling.

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Dorothy Hall

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Names Documents:

GATESHEAD  Durham Road Wesleyan Methodist Church

The layout of this memorial is not known.

The following has been extracted from a newspaper report and has not been compared with the original nor with a good photograph.

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  Cpl.     T.H. Dickinson    N.F.

  Cpl.     G.W. Wearmouth    N.F.

  L.Cpl.   Jas. Knox         D.L.I.

  E.R.A.   F.W. Briggs       R.N.

  Pte.     R. Dobson         East Lancs.

  Pte.     Walter Gibson     N.F.

  Pte.     J.M. Gibson       D.L.I.

  Pte.     R.E. Gibson       N.F.

  Pte.     Leslie Harding    D.L.I.

  Pte.     Robert Halliday   N.F.

  Pte.     George Newton     N.Staffs

  Pte.     F.J. Wright       D.L.I.

  Pte.     J.S. White        F.A.U.

  Rifleman Wheatley Lamb     L.R.B.

NamesG39.041

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