Memorial Details
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Memorial
Candlesticks 1914-18 Abbey
Reference
H51.29
Place
HEXHAM
Map ref
NY 937642
Original Location
Priory and Parish Church of St. Andrew, Market Place. In the Sanctuary
Which war
1914-18
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
Dedicated 24th October 1915 by Canon Sidney Savage
Memorial Description
A pair of standard Candlesticks or Sanctuary Lights, 177cm high x 58cm wide. The stems are fluted and enamelled blue, with gold knobs up each spine. Inscription is in raised sans serif lettering, coloured gold on a blue background.
Materials used
Enamelled pewter
Inscription
On first:
To the Glory of God and in grateful memory of our valiant / knights who having fought the fight have entered into rest.
On second:
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori 1914-1915
To the Glory of God and in grateful memory of our valiant / knights who having fought the fight have entered into rest.
On second:
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori 1914-1915
Names
Sculptor, Artist or Designer
Artificers' Guild at their premises in Conduit Street, London. Mr. Temple Moore
Notes
1. "The candlesticks are for beauty and utility. They are symbolical and they are a touching and tender memorial to all those who from Hexham fell in the Great War 1914.” (The rector, Edwin Sidney Savage, M.A.)
2. The designer, Temple Moore, also designed the 1908 nave of the Abbey.
3. "The Sanctuary Lights themselves are exceedingly handsome speciments of the work of the artist craftsman. Tall and stately in appearance, the colour work is rarely beautiful, and they are a fit adornment of one of the noblest sanctuary settings in the country”. “Electroliers or Gasoliers or Candlesticks might be equally symbolical, but candlesticks were more seemly”.
4. “The person who gave me the names gave me 22, but now I have seen a written record and have found that there are 24”.
2. The designer, Temple Moore, also designed the 1908 nave of the Abbey.
3. "The Sanctuary Lights themselves are exceedingly handsome speciments of the work of the artist craftsman. Tall and stately in appearance, the colour work is rarely beautiful, and they are a fit adornment of one of the noblest sanctuary settings in the country”. “Electroliers or Gasoliers or Candlesticks might be equally symbolical, but candlesticks were more seemly”.
4. “The person who gave me the names gave me 22, but now I have seen a written record and have found that there are 24”.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: C.N. Dallison
Abbey Chronicle March 1974 (photocopy on file)
Hexham Parish Magazine, March 1915, Nov. 1915
Diocese of Newcastle Faculty. None obtained (Abbey Chronicle March 1974)
Hexham Courant, 10/10/1915; 07/09/2001 has article on Joseph Robinson (copy on file)
Canon Sidney Savage (1862-1947): Cleric and Man of Action; David Jennings; 2007; Hexham Local History Society Occasional Publication No.8
Source of quotation
“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (It is a sweet and noble thing to die for one’s country” ) Horace, Odes Book 3, No.2, 1.13
Abbey Chronicle March 1974 (photocopy on file)
Hexham Parish Magazine, March 1915, Nov. 1915
Diocese of Newcastle Faculty. None obtained (Abbey Chronicle March 1974)
Hexham Courant, 10/10/1915; 07/09/2001 has article on Joseph Robinson (copy on file)
Canon Sidney Savage (1862-1947): Cleric and Man of Action; David Jennings; 2007; Hexham Local History Society Occasional Publication No.8
Source of quotation
“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (It is a sweet and noble thing to die for one’s country” ) Horace, Odes Book 3, No.2, 1.13
Research acknowledgements
C.N. Dallison
Research In Progress
Alan Grint has researched the names on the Hexham memorials in his book The Faith and Fire Within, 2006, Ergo Press ISBN 0955275814
Contact:-Cogito books 01434 602555
Candlesticks 1914-18 Abbey (H51.29)
HEXHAM Abbey
Capt. Reginald Head, Border Regt.
Lieut. Drew Little, 9th D.L.I.
Lieut. Frank Taylor Iveson 14th D.L.I. attached to 5th Manchesters
Lieut. J.T. Redpath K.O.S.B.
Engineer E.T. Baty R.N.R.
Arthur Patterson R.M.L.I.
William Wilson R.N.
William Wilkinson R.N.
Pte. J. Thompson 4th N.F.
“ George Pearson 4th N.F.
“ John Grierson 4th N.F.
“ William Donnelly 4th N.F.
“ John Robson 4th N.F.
“ J. Cunningham 4th N.F.
“ George Watson 4th N.F.
“ F. Riley 4th N.F.
Drummer W. Pearson 4th N.F.
Pte. J.W. Banks King’s Royal Rifles
Pte. Thomas Pigg 8th N.F.
Pte. W. Turnbull Australian Expeditionary Force
Pte. William Robinson Australian Expeditionary Force
Sapper Ernest Batey Canadian Expeditionary Force
Lance Cpl. J. Halliday 2nd Gordon Highlanders
Henry King Lockhart R.E. accidentally killed in Luton.
NamesB51.29
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