Memorial

Font 1914-18 1939-45 Central Primitive Methodist

Blyth

Memorial Name: Font 1914-18 1939-45 Central Primitive Methodist (B42.09)

NEWMP Ref No.: B42.09

Parish: Blyth

Original Location:

North Side of Bridge Street, Wesleyan Methodist Church, Blyth. NE24 1AH. NZ 31440 81550 [Now Demolished}.

Present Location:

Blyth Central Methodist Church, Beaconsfield Street, Blyth NE24 2DP.  NZ 31538 81456

Which War:

a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45

Materials Used:

Oak with brass plates, one for each of 5 different churches, each one being treated separately in this record.

Present Condition: Good

Inscription:

See individual files for the five demolished churches.

Memorial Description:

Font, octagonal, 14½ inches diameter, resting on slender oak column 40 inches high (364mm x 1.2m).

Five faces of the sides of the font bear brass plates, the other faces are carved with an abstract pattern.
The five plaques represent various other churches, now demolished:
Zion Methodist B42.06;
Regent Street Primitive Methodist B42.07;
Bridge Street Wesleyan Methodist B42.10;
Beaconsfield Primitive Methodist B42.35 and
Bowes Street Methodist B42.36.

The lettering in each case is sunk in casting and enamelled black using serif capitals.

Names:

See transcript.

Notes:

1. The Blyth Central Methodist Church (originally Bridge Street Wesleyan Church) was demolished in 1989 and replaced by Blyth New Central Methodist Church, Beaconsfield Street, opened 1990.

Sources:

Photos: Jack Tait; Tony Harding; Janet Brown

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

J. Tait, Blyth Local History Society;
Tony Harding;
Dorothy Hall

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Names Documents:

BLYTH, New Central Methodist Church.

 

Plate 1.  

  Dedicated to the

  memory of those who made

  the supreme sacrifice

  in the Great War

  1914 – 1918

  —————

  Thomas Clark

  David Ferrel Fenwick

  William Hepple

  Edward Jobling

  William Lawson

  Wilfred Lawson

  Cyril Pexton Pitchford

  William Nixon

  John Nixon

  Percival Milner Sidgwick

  Alexander Bruce Story

  —————

  “Their Name Liveth for Evermore”

——————————————–

Plate 2.  

  Bowes Street Methodist Church

  To the memory of

  those who made

  the supreme sacrifice

  in the World War

  1939-1945

  —————

  Fred Hebron

  Norman Soulsby

  George Brocksopp

  —————

  “Their Name Liveth for Evermore”

——————————————–

Plate 3.    

  In memory of the members of

  Beaconsfield Methodist Church

  who made the supreme sacrifice

  during the Great World Wars

  —————

  1914-1918

  Andrew Easton

  Andrew Farley

  George Jackson

  1939-1945

  Kenneth Allen

  John George Beckwith

  Leonard Blades

  J. George Gowans

  Edward Storey

  —————

  “In heavenly love abiding”

——————————————–

Plate 4

  In memory of those of the

  Central Primitive

  Methodist Church

  Regent Street, Blyth

  and

  Zion Methodist Church, Blyth

  who made the

  supreme sacrifice

  in the World Wars

  1914 – 1918

  1939 – 1945

——————————————–

Plate 5

  In memory of those of

  Blyth Wesleyan Church

  who made the supreme sacrifice

  during the Great War

  1914 – 1919

  —————

  John Colin Goulding

  Joseph Greener

  William Ewart Parker

  Thomas Robert Smith

  John Soulsby

  Ernest Robert Taylor

  William Turnbull

  —————

  “Their name liveth for evermore”

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