Derbyshire War Memorials
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Memorial Title

Tideswell and Wheston
Summary

Derbyshire War Memorials: a description of a WW1 and WW2 war memorial cross at Tideswell, Derbyshire.
Images

Setting Memorial 6 o'clock 9 o'clock 12 o'clock 3 o'clock
Locations

Last known location:
Roadside
Queen St (B6049)
Tideswell
Derbyshire 		Nearest postcode:
SK17 8JT

NGR:
SK 15141 75613 ±5m
(Map opens in new window) 		Location details:
The memorial is at the junction with Church St.
Type

Overall type: Cross.

 Overall condition: Fair. The inscription is legible.
A sandstone monument comprising a patonce cross on a shaft, pedestal and base. The cross is octagonal in section, with the four principal faces flat and the diagonal faces hollowed, and it surmounts its own short octagonal moulded plinth. The tapered shaft is similar in section but has fleurons in relief spaced along the hollowed faces, with incised foliage between. The shaft also surmounts its own moulded plinth, this time square in plan. The pedestal has an octagonal moulded capstone with hollowed soffits containing pairs of foliage motifs around the perimeter. The canted dado has hollowed corner faces and the main faces bear inscriptions and names incised in capital uncial lettering coloured black, within incised decorative borders. The pedestal is completed with a canted square moulded plinth. The square base has three steps, the top one of which has a bevelled top.

The monument is set in a garden containing shrubberies and paved paths, all surrounded by railings atop a dwarf wall.

Glossary 		Components:

Component Material Height Width Depth Condition
Cross Sandstone c700 c850 c450 Fair
Plinth Sandstone c500 c400 c400 Fair
Shaft Sandstone c2600 c350 c350 Fair
Plinth Sandstone 250 600 600 Fair
Capstone Sandstone 350 1130 1130 Fair
Dado Sandstone 1080 905 905 Fair
Plinth Sandstone 400 1140 1140 Fair
Base Sandstone 815 3370 3370 Fair
Dimensions in millimetres ±5mm unless stated otherwise.
Inscription

6 o'clock face (including WW2 names): 9 o'clock face (WW1 names):
IN EVER
LOVING MEMORY OF
THE MEN OF THIS TOWN
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR THEIR COUNTRY'S
SAKE IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1919.
AND IN THE WORLD WAR
1939 - 1945.
REGINALD S. BARBER.
REGINALD CARTLEDGE.
WESLEY E. DALTON.
STANLEY FLINT.
JAMES MAKIN.
CHARLES E. PENNOCK.
WALTER SINCLAIR.
FRANK WOOD. 		GEORGE T. ASHMORE.
GEORGE BAYLEY.
WILLIAM H. BRIERLEY.
J. J. HUBERT BRIERLEY.
C. HARRY G. BRIGHTMORE.
F. LESTER CHAPMAN.
HAROLD CHAPMAN.
ARTHUR CHAPMAN.
GEORGE W. DAWSON.
A. CECIL ESPLIN.
JOE L. FLETCHER.
JOHN T. L. FLETCHER.
WILLIAM FLINT.
LESLIE FLINT.
FREDERICK FLINT.
WALTER FRANCES.
ALFRED J. FRANCES.
JOHN W. GIBSON.
GEORGE GOUGH.
WILFRID L. GRATTON.
GEORGE H. GREEN.
CHARLES GREGORY.
JOSEPH HALL.
MATTHEW HAMBLETON.
GEORGE L. HARRISON.
THOMAS J. HARRISON.
JOHN F. HARRISON.
RONALD C. HARRISON.
12 o'clock face: 3 o'clock face (WW1 names):
THEY WHOM THIS MEMORIAL
COMMEMORATES WERE NUMBERED
AMONG THOSE WHO AT THE CALL
OF KING AND COUNTRY LEFT
ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM
ENDURED HARDNESS FACED
DANGERS AND FINALLY PASSED
OUT OF THE SIGHT OF MEN BY
THE PATH OF DUTY AND SELF
SACRIFICE GIVING UP THEIR OWN
LIVES THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE
IN FREEDOM

LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER
SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES
ARE NOT FORGOTTEN. 		SAMUEL HODGKINSON.
JOHN HOWARTH.
TOM HOWE.
THOMAS HUDSON.
WILLIAM JACKSON.
MAURICE JOHNSON.
SAMUEL H. LOMAS.
NORMAN LOMAS.
REGINALD LOMAS.
WILFRED LOMAS.
MAX MARKOVITZ.
LAWRENCE MILLWARD.
JOHN PALFREYMAN.
PERCY PORTER.
ARTHUR RILEY.
ARTHUR SELLARS.
ROBERT L. SHENTON.
LAWRENCE SIDDONS.
JOHN SUTTON.
LAURENCE TATTERSALL.
WILLIAM H. TATTERSALL.
BERNARD A. TAYLOR.
JOSEPH H. WAGSTAFFE.
ERNEST WALTON.
GEORGE W. WALTON.

JAMES DUNCAN.     WHESTON.
CLEMENT R. GOODWIN.      
Conflicts and people named:
Conflict First World War (1914-1919) Second World War (1939-1945) Totals
Action Unspecified
Number died 55 8 63
Number served and returned  0 0  0
Total names 55 8 63
Administration

Custodian: Presumed to be Tideswell Parish Council.

Local authorities:
From WW1: Tideswell Parish Council; Bakewell Rural District Council; Derbyshire County Council.
From 1974: Tideswell Parish Council; Derbyshire Dales District Council; Derbyshire County Council.
History

17th April, 1951: The memorial lies within the Peak District National Park designated on that date.

2nd September, 1981: The memorial lies within the Tideswell Conservation Area first designated on that date.

27th April, 2017: The memorial was surveyed by Roy Branson and Alan Willmot. It was in fair condition.
References

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Comments

The memorial includes two WW1 names from the village of Wheston located c2km northwest of Tideswell.

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