Memorial

Stained Glass Window and Plaque 1914-18 St. Aidan

South Shields

Memorial Name: Stained Glass Window and Plaque 1914-18 St. Aidan (S86.046)

NEWMP Ref No.: S86.046

Parish: South Shields

Original Location:

St. Aidan’s Church (Demolished 2000). St. Aidan’s Road, South Shields. NE33 2HO. NZ 366246 67573

Present Location:

St. Aidan’s Church and St. Stephen’s Church of the Lawe, Mile End Road, South Shields. NE33 2AE. NZ 36179 67831

In the Porch.

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled 28th July 1920 by Rev. E.G. Wells, M.A., M.C., Vicar of Eastleigh.

Materials Used:

Marble plaque in oak frame.

Who Commissioned:

St Aidans Church

How Money was Raised:

St Aidan’s War Memorial Committee

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Harold Rhodes, A.R.C.A., son-in-law of Mr. John Heys, Headmaster of the South Shields School of Art.

Ownership and Maintenance: St. Aidan's Church and St. Stephen's Church of the Lawe

Inscription:

The west windows are erected
in memory of
those who gave their lives in defence of their country, liberty and Civilization
in the Great War (1914-1918) by their friends and kindred in St. Aidan’s Church.
(Names)

Memorial Description:

Plaque in oak frame, with gold crown and centre incised into the frame.

The names are listed in four columns.

Lettering is in sans serif capitals with a mixture of Gothic and italic in the dedication.

The 3 Stained glass windows were located on the West Wall. See S86.054.

Names:

116 full names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. The original windows were blown out by bombing in 1939-45 and replaced by plain glass. However, the small windows at the tops of the arches survived. See S86.054 for the replacement SGW Windows.

2. “The windows suggest in their brilliancy and richness of colouring, that the use of different tones of pure glass, to gain the depth of shadow, rather than much applied pigment, gives a nearer approach to the glory of the stained glass of medieval times”.

3. Reverend E.G. Wells, Vicar of Eastleigh, was ex-C.F. of 68th Infantry Brigade comprising 12th and 13th D.L.I. and 11th N.F. He was also the brother of the resident Vicar of St. Aidan’s, Reverend. L.S. Alban Wells, M.A.

4. L C Evetts made the replacement SGW windows in 1951.

Sources:

Photos of plaque: Simon Raine; Peter Hoy; James Pasby

Shields Daily Gazette
22/05/1919 reports appeal for names;
29/07/1920 reports unveiling

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

C. Sanders;
Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale;
James Pasby;
Michael Mulhern;
Peter Hoy;

Research In Progress:

The names on this memorial are being researched by Peter Hoy.

Contact: peterhoy@hotmail.co.uk

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Names Documents:

SOUTH SHIELDS   St. Aidan’s Church

 

  The west windows are erected

  in memory of

  those who gave their lives in defence of their Country, Liberty and Civilization

  in the Great War (1914-1918) by their Friends and Kindred in St. Aidan’s Church.

 

  Robert Huntley Hedworth  Richard Henry Locke   Walter L. Scott      William B. Browitt

  Edward Reay              Gordon M. Carling     David Cunningham     Edward Bell

  Robert Dryden Moffitt    Wilton Allan          William G. Tweddell  Harold Newton Macdonald

  William Newton Harle     Irving Henderson      John Joseph Banks    George Hatton

  John Brotchie            Charles Thompson      John George Ogilvie  Leonard Dawe

  Robert Floyd             Henry M. Weddle       John A. Neilson      George E. Holliday

  John Alexander Macdonald Stephen Leslie        William C. Cooper    John James Mitchell

  Alfred Austin            Edwin Girling         Sydney Taylor        Joseph Askins

  Joseph Sweeney           John Williamson       Christopher J. Young Matthias Yates

  John B. Richardson       Stewart A. White      Jacob Young          Robert George

  James Hindmarsh          Robert Norris         Septimus W. Kell     Thomas T. Rose

  Joseph Swift             Harold D. Johnston    Charles Pinckney     Ernest J.H. Williams

  Robert Nicholson         George Walker         Albert H. Purvis     John T. Adamson

  Stephen W. Warwick       Oliver Sidney Phinn   Charles A. Holman    John B. Souter

  Luke Ramsey              Anthony H. Kell       William W. Wilkins   Thomas H. Malcolm

  John Blaikie             William Ainsley       Thomas Edward Burn   Richard Park

  Thomas Robertson         John Dingle           Robert Newlands      Thomas W. Heppell

  Thomas Burn Lucock       Frederick Batey       Walker S. Edmunds    Albert S. Berkeley

  Alexander Smith          Frederick Donaldson   Alfred Longstaff     James M. Armstrong

  James F. Fahey           Henry S. Allan        John C. Cree         James Mallen

  Edward W. Corbitt        Arthur Poynter        William Young        Albert E. Elliott

  Thomas E.S. Reay         Thomas Relph Abbot    James L. Witty       Joseph Hutchinson

  Alfred E. Birch          Frederick A. Crane    John S. Dennier      Thomas L. Simpson

  Andrew Preece            Henry Ingram          Edwin Smith          William Leighton

  James Hunter             John J. Scott         Henry B. Winlo       John M. Smith

  James Richardson         Ernest J.B. Gooderham William F. Coughlan  James W. Reay

  Herman T. Wells          Harold C.R. Browitt   Rex M. Daniel        Leonard Ramsay

  Thomas Berry             Andrew R. Legat       Tom S. Richardson    Robert Crathorne

  Herbert Woodhouse        Edward Woodhouse      Gilbert L. Barnes    George Lamb   

NamesS86.046   

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