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Plaque 1914-18 Dawson Street Methodist

Reference

C121.15

Place

CROOK

Map ref

NZ 166 355

Present Location

Dawson Street United Reformed Methodist Church

Which war

1914-18

Memorial Description

Plaque, rectangular, with a curved top, resting on a black pattress which echoes the shape. At centre top is a wreath raised in half relief encircling a cross within a crown. On the ribbon under the wreath are the words �Faithful unto death�. The names are listed in three columns. Lettering is incised and blackened, using Old English lower case lettering for the dedication, elaborate Roman capitals for the names and lower case italics for the quotation at the bottom.

Materials used

White marble

Inscription

This tablet is placed here by the Congregation in grateful / Memory of the Men of this Church who fell in the / Great War 1914-1919.
Their name liveth for ever.

Names

22 surnames and initials.
See transcript.

Notes

1. It looks as though the name �G. Young� has been added at a later date.

2. The church was built in 1868 as a Primitive Methodist Church.

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photos: Simon Raine; John and Mavis Dixon

Source of quotation
�Their name liveth for ever� Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 44

External web link

Durham at War

Weardale Museum

Research acknowledgements

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale; John and Mavis Dixon

Research In Progress

The names on this memorial are being researched by Aaron Cowen
Contact cowenaaron@hotmail.com

Plaque 1914-18 Dawson Street Methodist (C121.15)

CROOK   Methodist Church

   Faithful unto death.

   This tablet is placed here by the Congregation in grateful

   Memory of the Men of this Church who fell in the

   Great War 1914-1919.

   A. Armstrong     T. Dowson        G. Richardson

   W. Auton         W. Heslop        H.H. Smith

   F. Braithwaite   J. Lambert       F.A. Smith

   A.G. Burnip      W. Hutchinson    S. Smith

   J.W. Cooke       R.W. Parkin      J.E. Smith

   T. Cummins       J.H. Parkin      F. Smith

   W.G. Dalton      C.H. Macdonald   G.W. Wearmouth

   Their name liveth for ever.       G.W. Young

NamesC121.15

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