Memorial

Screen 1914-18 1939-1945 St. Aidan

Herrington

Memorial Name: Screen 1914-18 1939-1945 St. Aidan (H137.06)

NEWMP Ref No.: H137.06

Parish: Herrington

Original Location:

St. Aidan’s Church, St. Aidan’s Terrace, West Herrington (demolished)

Present Location:

Unknown

Which War:

a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

a. Dedicated May 1920 by Canon Bell of York Minster

Materials Used:

Oak

Cost:

Estimated £130

How Money was Raised:

Public subscription

Inscription:

Outer left hand panel:
In ever
glorious
memory
of the
parishioners
of
Herrington
who gave
their lives
in the
Great War
1914-1918

Below crucifix
For us He died
for you and me
For us they died
for you and me.

Outer right hand panel
1939-1945

Memorial Description:

Screen of five panels with traceried and gilded top.

The centre panel cuts across a corner, with the four outer panels along the walls.

The whole is highly decorated with gilt on a black background.

The centre panel has a crucifix. Behind it is a ribbon bearing the words “Great love hath no man than this”.

Below is the dedication, and below this again is a chalice, with an adoring angel in each of the two panels on either side.

The extreme left hand panel bears the dedication.

The other three outer panels bear the names in a single column on each.

The names for 1939-45 are on the extreme right hand panel.

The lettering is incised and gilded, using Roman capitals for the names, and elaborate lettering for the quotation and dedication.

Names:

82 names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. The odd shape of the memorial is explained by the fact that it once went round a pillar in the old church. Later it was adjusted to fill a corner.

2. Newrick Crow and Benjamin William Brunson, both named on this memorial, were brothers-in-law. (Ken Reay, great-nephew of Newrick Crow)

Sources:

Photos: C. Sanders; John Grainger:  old postcard: James Pasby

Auckland and County Chronicle
 21/05/1920 reports unveiling.

Diocese of Durham
Faculty number 850

The Story Durham (formerly Durham County Record Office)
Hodgson Fowler (architects
Herrington Church
Ref: D/HF 74/1 Correspondence re war memorial and alterations and repairs, 5 August 1918 – 7 February 1922
(4 files)
Ref: D/HF 74/2 Details of war shrine, September 1919 Full size (2 plans, 100cm x 76cm, pencil, tracing paper)
Ref: D/HF 74/3 Details of shrine, September 1919 Full size (1 plan, 99cm x 75cm, pencil, tracing paper)
Ref: D/HF 74/5 Plan of inscription on panel on north side next chancel arch, n.d. Full size (1 plan, 46cm x 79cm, pencil, tracing paper)
Ref: D/HF 74/6 Specification of certain works to be done, n.d. (1 paper)
Ref: D/HF 74/7 Details of shrine, September 1919 Full size (2 plans, 106cm x 76cm, pencil, tracing paper)

Source of quotation:
 “For us He died, for you and me” . . . Not ascertained.

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

C. Sanders,
James Pasby;
John and Mavis Dixon;
Pam and Ken Linge;
Ken Reay;
John Grainger

Research In Progress:

David Sloan is researching the names on this memorial.

Contact: david.sloan@btinternet.com

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Names Documents:

WEST HERRINGTON    St.Aidan’s Church

 

Left hand panel   Second panel        

                 

                    Samuel Coffey       

                    Thomas Bostle       

                    Thomas Cruddas     

                    Alfred Dawson      

                    George Moore         

                    John Wm. Edgar      

                    John Kay             

  In ever           John Stephenson      

  glorious          George Owen          

  memory            Joseph Wm. Watt      

  of the            Joseph Chambers      

  parishioners      George Bray          

  of                Albert A.F. Larssen  

  Herrington        William Gunn         

  who gave          Ernest Saxon         

  their lives       John Duke           

  in the            Edward Cain          

  Great War         James Marsh         

  1914-1918         William Simpson      

                    James Mitchison     

                    Ernest Ritchie       

                    Benjamin Wm. Brunson

                    Robert McGee         

                    Charles Bryson     

                    Arthur Stamp         

                    William Handy       

                    James Bradley        

                    Wm. Henry Fowler   

                    Harry Bilton        

                    George Welsh      

                    Christopher Burdon   

                    Newrick Crow      

                    George Ward          

                    Norman Poole         

                    Matthew Greener     

                    John Robert Coulson  

                    Edward Anderson     

                    Wm. Stanley Cruikshanks

                    John Thomas Brunton

                    Henry King Murray   

                    Wilfred Gaff        

    

—————————————————-

Centre panel      Fourth panel             

                

                    John Robert Laws

                    Clarke Green

                    James Ward

                    Joseph Thos. Oliver

  I.N.R.I.          Robert Davison

                    William Ashburn

                    John Dawson

  Greater           Edward Clark Turnbull     

                    Frederick Gould           

  love hath         Stephen Chipchase         

                    Charlton Hedworth Banks   

  no man            Edward Percival Matson    

                    Robert William Laverick   

  than this.        Martin Davison            

                    John Murray               

                    William Oxley             

                    Robert Archer             

                    Joseph Francis            

                    Henry Clayton Grass       

                    William Lawson            

                    Ralph Mackintosh          

                    Charles Emery             

                    Thomas Dawson             

                    George Ainger             

                    George Edward Dawson      

                    Arthur Gunn               

                    Ernest Slassor            

                    Roland Laidler            

                    John Mitchison            

                    Matthew Allan             

  For us He died    John Haynes               

                    Thomas Rickaby            

  for you and me    James Gould               

                    Walter Hartburn           

  For us they died  Samuel Grand              

                    Arthur Ferris             

  for you and me.   William Gill              

                    John Fletcher             

                    Thomas Anderson           

                    Joseph Teasdale           

                    John W.Laws               

—————————————————-

Right hand panel

     1939-1945

  Stephen Arkley

  George W. Arkley

  John Burnside

  Albert Byrom

  James Briggs

  William Bailey

  Harry Brown

  William Chambers

  Arthur Cook

  Cecil Devon

  George Davidson

  John W. Edmondson

  Robert Fawcett

  Elizabeth Fraser

  James Furnival

  Robert Grant

  W. Garbutt Henderson

  Thomas Hepple

  John James Holland

  John Hood

  Thomas Lauderdale

  George Lawson

  Joseph Marsh

  John McCall

  George Bell Midgley

  John Henry Moreton

  Wilfred Nutter

  Robinson Oliver

  Ernest Pattison

  W. Sinclair Rose

  James Edward Simpson

  Edward Saxon

  William Henry Smith

NamesH137.06   

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