Memorial

Stained Glass Window Chipchase 1916 Rise Carr Primitive Methodist

Darlington

Memorial Name: Stained Glass Window Chipchase 1916 Rise Carr Primitive Methodist (D40.090)

NEWMP Ref No.: D40.090

Parish: Darlington

Original Location:

Rise Carr Primitive Methodist Church. Westmorland Street (Demolished).

Present Location:

Bondgate Methodist Church (Closed now the Vineyard Church)

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled 14th November 1920 by Mr. W. Heslop

Who Commissioned:

Parents and brother

Inscription:

So they passed over and all
the trumpets sounded for
them on the other side.

To the Glory of God and in loving memory of
Christopher John Chipchase who fell in the War
Dec. 19th 1916. Erected by his Father Mother & Brother.

Memorial Description:

Stained glass window depicting the scene from Pilgrim’s Progress where the Pilgrim, having arrived at the Celestial City, receives the Crown of Life.

Names:

See above

Notes:

1. In the Bondgate chapel, unusually, there are 6 stained glass windows to the fallen in the 1914-18 war. These were all from other Methodist chapels in the town, which became redundant and were demolished.
Upstairs, the two forward windows are a pair taken from the old Greenbank Chapel. The back two are from Rise Carr, Bondgate Chapel, including the personal memorial to Christopher Chipchase given by his parents. The two side windows downstairs came from Corporation Road”.

2. There were two windows unveiled on the same day. See D40.82. Both depicted scenes from Pilgrim’s Progress. This one was given Pte. Chipchase’s parents.

3. See his Every Name A Story entry

Sources:

Photos: Dorothy Hall

Newcastle Weekly Chronicle
20/11/1920 reports unveiling

Northern Echo
15/11/1920 reports unveiling.
18/07/2020 and 25/07/2020 articles about Rise Carr Church and windows

Our Providential Way Harold E. Moors page 53 is quoted in Note 1 above.

Source of Quotation
So they passed over Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan 1678 Section X