Memorial Title
All Saints' Anglican Church - WW1
Summary
Derbyshire War Memorials: A description of a WW1 war memorial altar in All Saints' Anglican Church, Old Glossop, Derbyshire.
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Locations
| Last known location: All Saints' Church Church St Old Glossop Derbyshire |
Nearest postcode: SK13 7RN NGR: SK 14160 94843 ±5m |
Location details: This is the Church of England Parish Church at the eastern end of Church St at the junction with Church St South and Well Gate, and is not to be confused with All Saints' Roman Catholic Church at the western end of the same street. The altar is in the memorial chapel at the east end of the north aisle. |
Type
| Overall type: Altar. |
Overall condition: Good. The inscription is legible and the memorial is well cared for. |
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| Description: A framed and panelled oaken altar and reredos. The composite structure has plain framework surmounted by an ornamented cornice with multiple crockets and pierced tracery above, and carved sinuous blind tracery on its surface. The two end muntins bear carvings of figures on pedestals with canopies above, and the seven irregular panels each have blind tracery in the upper quarters and in a band at the foot. At half height the reredos steps forward to form a shelf for altar furniture, below which is a band of carved rinceau motif. The altar has a moulded cornice around the upper surface and three panels at the front bearing blind tracery at the head in the style of an ogee arch with rinceau tracery above and with the inscription and names in gilded upright capital roman lettering. |
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Inscription
| REMEMBER THOSE LEONARD ALLCOCK SAMUEL RATCLIFFE BOOTH ERNEST BRADBURY JORDAN BRADBURY FRANK BRIDGE STANLEY BRIDGE EDWIN BROOKS FREDERICK C. BROWN JOHN BROWN RICHARD BROWN |
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES 1914 - 1918 JOHN BURGESS CECIL BYE WILLIAM CHAPMAN MAURICE COOPER CYRIL DOWNS HAROLD FIELDING TOM FIELDING ALBERT GARLICK CHRISTOPHER HADFIELD FRANK HALLAM THOMAS HEAP JESU MERCY |
IN THE GREAT WAR W. ROWLAND HEATH HERBERT MASON WILLIAM GEORGE NEWTON JOSEPH HARRY OLDHAM ARTHUR MILLS ROBINSON CYRIL SELLARS ROWBOTTOM TOM WATKINSON ROBERT WHITE WILLIAM WHITELEY TOM WRIGLEY |
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Administration
Custodian: Presumed to be the Parochial Church Council
Local authorities:
From WW1: Glossop Parish Council; Glossop Borough Council; Derbyshire County Council.
From 1974: Unparished; High Peak Borough Council; Derbyshire County Council.
History
c1920: The memorial is believed to have been provided as the high altar.
c1923:The memorial is believed to have been moved to its present position in the memorial chapel at the eastern end of the north aisle when the chancel was rebuilt.
4th December 1958 The church was listed Grade II, Heritage List for England number 1384237
21st August, 1970: The church lies within the Old Glossop Conservation Area first designated on that date.
29th September, 2015: The memorial was surveyed by Roy Branson and Alan Willmot. It was in good condition although the reredos was obscured by a piece of artwork..
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