Memorial

Reredos 1914-18 Venerable Bede

Monkwearmouth

Memorial Name: Reredos 1914-18 Venerable Bede (M46.19)

NEWMP Ref No.: M46.19

Parish: Monkwearmouth

Original Location:

Church of Venerable Bede, Church Lane (demolished 1963) SR6 0DX.

Present Location:

Royal Artillery Club, 10 Mary Street, Sunderland, SR1 3NH NZ 38346 53581

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled 11th September 1920 by Cllr. T. Harrison, “one of the oldest members of the church”;
dedicated by Rev. E.N. Mellish, V.C., vicar of St.Mark’s, Lewisham.
Rededicated on 11th November 2010 by Rt. Rev. Mark Savage, Bishop of Jarrow.

Materials Used:

Oak picked out in gold.

Cost:

£430 including other items.

See Note 1 below.

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Designed by Mr. W.H. Wood, F.R.I.B.A. of Durham;
pictures painted by Mr. G. Watson of London.

Inscription:

Remember ye with thanksgiving and with all honour
before God and men those Soldiers and sailors who gave
their lives for their Country in the Great War 1914 – 1919
especially those of this Congregation and parish to
whose memory the altar and reredos of this church
are dedicated and their names are here recorded.

Memorial Description:

Altar and reredos.

There is a row of six panels, 24 inches high x a total of 58 inches wide (608mm x 1.4m).

There is a border of raised crosses at intervals at top and bottom.

Above the panels is another which runs the entire length.

This carries the dedication, with a cross at centre, using Gothic script on a gold background.

The names are listed in a single column on each of the vertical panels in Roman capitals.

Names:

161 full names.

See transcript.

Notes:

1. Other gifts included a handsome white altar frontal, vases and candlesticks. Total sum subscribed was £430.

2. Gertrude Ann Patrick (aged 18) and her brother Henry Patrick (16) were civilian casualties of Zeppelin bombing raid on April 1st 1916.

3. Rev. Capt. Mellish, who dedicated the memorial in 1920, was the first member of the Army Chaplain’s Department to receive the Victoria Cross.

4. Following the close of Venerable Bede Church in 1963, the panel with the names is all that remains. This was stored in a boiler house in All Saints’ church before being placed in Monkwearmouth Library where the rededication in 2010 was attended by the Duke of Kent. After Monkwearmouth Library closed in 2013, the memorial was removed by the Sunderland Armed Forces Network (SAFN) to the Royal Artillery Club, where it was rededicated in November 2014.

5. In the Library the memorial was accompanied by a mini-biography of each person named.

Sources:

Photos of panels: C. Sanders; Bob Dunn: Morris Adamson

Northern Echo
13/09/1920 reports unveiling.

Sunderland Echo
09/09/1920 reports unveiling
13/05/2010 reports proposals for restoration;
26/05/2010 reports on progress;
01/10/2010 reports relocation to Monkwearmouth Library and proposed rededication;
25/11/2014 reports its rededication in the Royal Artillery Club.

Rededication Programme 2010

Source of quotation:
 “May they rest in peace” Mass for the Dead

Sources Link: Northern Echo 09 13 Mon -1920

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

C. Sanders;
Mrs. Hughes;
Dorothy Hall;
Alan Vickers;
Bob Dunn;
Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale;
David Sloan

Research In Progress:

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Photo: Morris Adamson
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Names Documents:

MONKWEARMOUTH    Venerable Bede Church (demolished)

 

Running along the top: 

Left hand side  

  Remember ye with thanksgiving and with all honour  

Right hand side

  before God and men those Soldiers and Sailors who gave

Left hand side   

  their lives for their Country in the Great War 1914 – 1919      

Right hand side

  +  especially those of this Congregation and parish to

Left hand side   

  whose memory the altar and reredos of this church       

Right hand side

  are dedicated and their names are here recorded.  

 

  May they rest in peace

—————————————————————–

  Panel 1               Panel 2               Panel 3

 

  John R. Adamson       Joseph Cooper         Ralph Gardiner         

  Lancelot Adamson      Thomas Cooper         Thomas Gardner         

  Henry Armstrong       John Cowper           George E. Gibbon       

  Thomas Armstrong      James W. Crawford     James E. Graham        

  Andrew Atkinson       William H. Crinall    Joseph Gray            

  William Attley        Henry G. Cutter       James Grieveson        

  John T. Bailes        James Cutter          David S. Hall          

  John W. Baker         Robert A. Davison     Ernest N. Hall         

  Charles Ball          Edward P. Dennis      William Hamilton       

  John R. Baxter        Stanley Dennis        Robert Hanson          

  William Beavers       William S. Derby      William Harris         

  William Bell          Thomas Dixon          Richard Harding        

  Henry W. Bellam       Thomas H. Dobbs       Robert Herdman         

  John W. Benn          William G. Dobson     Percy Hills            

  George Booth          William C. Dorans     Thomas Hope            

  William Boys          George Dorward        Stanley Hopper         

  Frank Brack           Wallace Dorward       William J. Hornsby     

  John Bradley          David Dryden          Frederick C. Hull      

  William Brown         Herbert Egar          Robert Hull            

  William Buckley       John G. Feeney        John W. Humphry        

  William Burns         Simon Fenwick         Joseph W. Hunter       

  Samuel Cable          James Forsyth         John L. Kennard        

  Charles F. Carter     George Foster         William S. Kinnair     

  John W. Chapman       James Foster          Robert W. Knox         

  Frederick Clark       George B. Foulkes     Clifford Landrath      

  William Colling       James Foulkes         Ernest Landrath        

  Ernest Cooper         Ralph R. Galley       William Landrath       

 ————————————————————–

  Panel 4               Panel 5                Panel 6

 

  James M. Laws         Edward Reeves          Thomas Speed

  Richard H. Leach      James Richardson       John Spence

  Norman Lilly          John T. Richardson     John W. Stobart

  Joseph Madden         William Roberts        James Storey

  Joseph Marsh          Hugh Robinson          Thomas Straker

  Arthur McBryde        John Robson            Thomas A. Stuart

  William McDermot      Lockie Robson          William L. Sutherland

  William McDonald      Edward Rosscamp        James E. Swinhoe

  James McRoy           Stephen W. Routledge   John T. Swinhoe

  John G. McRoy         James W. Rutherford    George W. Tate

  Adolphus Miller       John Sanderson         Ernest A. Townsley

  James Miller          William Scorer         George Tulloch

  Thomas R. Morrison    Andrew Scott           David Urwin

  George E. Noble       Archibald Scott        John Vickerson

  Herbert Noble         George Scott           Richard Walters

  William A. Oliver     Walter Scott           James R. Walton

  Hugh F. Orchard       William F.N. Scott     Walter J. Ward

  George B. Parrington  John Sewell            William Wardle

  John W. Parkington    Frederick W. Shaw      James Watson

  Gertrude A. Patrick   Sidney Shiel           James Webster

  Henry Patrick         Robert O. Shield       Robert Wigham

  Alfred Pratt          Gerald Skillet         John E. Woodger

  James Preshaw         Mason Sloan            John W. Yeo

  Henry S. Proctor      Albert Smith           Arthur Youern

  Ralph S. Ramsay       George Smith           William Youern

  William Reed          John W. Smith          George G. Young

  Fredrick Reeve        William Snowden

—————————————————————

2014 some names were altered.

  William Atley instead of William Attley

  John W. Humphrey instead of John W. Humphry   

  Clifford, Ernest and William Landreth instead of Clifford, Ernest and William Landrath

Names M46.19        

 

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