Memorial

Candlesticks 1914-18 Abbey

Hexham

Memorial Name: Candlesticks 1914-18 Abbey (H51.29)

NEWMP Ref No.: H51.29

Parish: Hexham

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

Materials Used:

Enamelled pewter

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Artificers’ Guild at their premises in Conduit Street, London.
Mr. Temple Moore

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

Memorial Description:

A pair of standard Candlesticks or Sanctuary Lights, 70 inches high x 23 inches wide (177cms x 58cms).

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.

Names:

None on candlesticks, but those connected with it are listed as 22 names, ranks and regiments.
See transcript.

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”.

Sources:

Photos: C.N. Dallison

Hexham Courant,
10/10/1915; 07/09/2001 has article on Joseph Robinson (copy on file)

Abbey Chronicle
March 1974 (photocopy on file)

Hexham Parish Magazine,
March 1915, Nov. 1915

Diocese of Newcastle Faculty.
None obtained (Abbey Chronicle March 1974)

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