Memorial Title
St Giles's Church - Tablet
Summary
Derbyshire War Memorials: a description of a WW1 war memorial tablet in St Giles's Church, Old Matlock, Derbyshire.
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Locations
| Last known location: St Giles's Church Church St Old Matlock Derbyshire |
Nearest postcode: DE4 3BZ NGR: SK 30080 59772 (From online digital mapping.) |
Location details: The memorial comprises four large stone tablets mounted on the north wall of the nave. |
Type
| Overall type: Tablet |
Overall condition: Fair. The inscription is legible and the memorial is cared for. |
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| Description: The memorial comprises four large sandstone tablets with an upright oblong one at the top near the middle and three horizontal oblong ones in a line below. The upper tablet has at its centre a gothic arch with acanthus leaves in relief in the spandrels and the inscription in gilded upright decorative lettering. To each side are decorative pilasters of varying section, containing empty niches on their faces. Above is a horizontal frieze with moulded edges and decorative gilded lettering flanked by the projecting pilasters terminating in crocketted finials. Between the finials is a panel carved in high relief and bearing a battlefield scene with depictions of a WW1 tank, an artillery piece and an aircraft, with a warship on the sea in the background, and at the head is a gilded latin cross on a shield. At the foot of this tablet is a cornice with two brackets and a further inscription between them. The three lower panels are all of similar design but different widths, the central one being longest and the right one the shortest. All have a moulded cornice at the top and raised borders on the other three sides, and all bear the names incised in elaborate gothic lettering, in fair condition but somewhat difficult to read. Glossary |
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Inscription
| Upper tablet: | VALIANT IN FIGHT SACRED To the Memory of the MATLOCK MEN who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914-1919 REMEMBER THEM O LORD OUR GOD Faithful unto death |
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| Left tablet: | E. Allen J. T. Allen T. Allen W. Allen Wm. Allen G. E. Andrews H. H. Andrews F. G. A. Arkwright F. Bagshaw H. Bagshaw J. Bagshaw W. Bagshaw C. Barnes H. Barnes W. Bates G. W. Boden S. Boden G. Bonham-Carter J. W. Booth G. F. Bower J. W. Bradwell W. J. Briddon W. H. Britland J. E. Brocklehurst F. Buckley C. Bunting O. Bunting F. Buxton A. B. Campbell H. S. Checkley C. Clark H. Clay J. Clay L. Clay C. Coates H. Cook E. Cooper H. Cowlishaw F. Croft G. Crowder F. Dakin L. Derbyshire L. G. Dickinson C. D. Dumas W. Eakin M.M. E. Ellis G. Else M.M. J. Else P. Farnsworth T. Fearn J. Fletcher F. Flint C. Fox F. Fox G. Fox I.S. Fox J. S. Fox S. Fox G. J. W. Goodwin E. Gibb H. L. Gray A. Gregory E. Gregory F. Gregory J. J. Gregory S. Grocott G. S. Hall W. Hallam J. Handley F. Hawley E. Haynes |
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| Middle tablet: | J. H. Hayes E. Henstock S. Henstock T. A. Hetherington A. Holmes-Bower H. Holmes J. Holmes R. Holmes W. Holmes W. Holland J. Hopkinson E. L. Housley J. C. Hyde A. Keeling M.M. W. Keeling G. E. Kenworthy J. A. C. Kersey C. J. Knowles W. R. Knowles J. Land J. R. Leacroft F. J. Lewis S. Lill G. H. Lily A. Lovell H. Lowe J. Margerrison B. Milne J. Mills J. H. P. Mitchell G. A. Moore J. Moxon J. J. Muir I. Mycock F. Nixon W. H. Oates C. Partridge G. Partridge R. Pickford A. Poultney H. Pursglove J. Radford W. Rawson A. Read C. E. Read T. B. Reynolds W. H. Riley B. Rouse W. H. Rylands J. Seedhouse G. Sellors H. Sellors A. Shaw E. H. Simpson A. A. Sims E. Slater G. Slater J. J. Slater F. Smith H. Smith I. Smith R. Smith S. A. Smith W. Smith A. Spencer G. Stacey J. Statham |
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| Right tablet: | J. Stone F. D. Stones M.C. G. C. Stones W. Storey H. Swinscoe W. E. Taylor G. Thompson A. Thorpe H. Toft T. F. Tomlinson A. Toplis J. Toplis H. Towe J. W. Twigg A. Wall J. Wall L. Wall T. Walters B. Ward R. Ward A. Wheatcroft F. Wheatcroft T. Wherrett F. White M.S.M. C. Wildgoose E. Wildgoose J. Wildgoose N. Wildgoose T. Wilson C. C. Willcock J. Woodhouse R. Woodhouse W. H. Woodiwiss C. W. Woolley D.C.M. J. Woolley G. P. Wragg H. Wragg J. W. Wyatt G. W. Ashton G. Ballington T. Buxton G. Crowther F. Farnsworth O. Flint A. Holmes J. Smith R. W. Wall |
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Administration
Local authorities:
From WW1: Matlock Parish Council; Matlock Urban District Council; Derbyshire County Council.
From 1974: Matlock Town Council; Derbyshire Dales District Council; Derbyshire County Council.
History
22nd June, 1950: The church was listed Grade II*, Heritage List for England number 1247838.
October 1980: The church lies within the Old Matlock Conservation Area first designated in that month.
8th September 2016: The memorial was surveyed by Anne Branson and Roy Branson. It was in fair condition and cared for. The names were transcribed by Annette Carter.
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