WWI Memorial Screen, St.Augustine's Church, Alston, Cumbria.
Posted by: greysman
N 54° 48.776 W 002° 26.377
30U E 536013 N 6074119
A wooden WWI memorial screen erected at the entrance to the chancel in the church at Alston.
Waymark Code: WMFENK
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/07/2012
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This screen has been placed at the entrance to the chancel in the place where the rood screen would have been erected in medieval church. It commemorates the fallen of the Parish and was erected in 1920, the 50th. Jubilee anniversary year of the church.
It is of five and two half bays width with the main entrance at the centre. There are two panels carrying the names at the extreme right and left at the base of the half bays, inscribed and coloured darker than the panels. The names are not in alphabetic order. There are six small coloured crests at the top of the screen which also incorporates several other small crests together with acanthus leaves.
The main inscription runs along the top of the screen in gold lettering on a red ground and is:
To the Glory of God and in memory of all from this Parish
who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918 this Chancel Screen
was erected in the Jubilee year of this Church 1920
The names on the left panel are:
Nowell Oxland
William J.Little
John R.Granston
Joseph M.Dowson
Henry Abbott
James Bennett
James D.Nicholson
Stephen Dickinson
Harold E.Walton
Lloyd M.Thompson
Walter Davidson
William F.Featherstone
Dacre Dickinson
Herbert J.Jackson
Walton Shield
Frank Millican
Ernest Wymes
John A.Havelock
The right-hand panel carries the names:
John Robson
Joseph Collinson
Andrew Douglas
William Turnbull
Thomas E.Spark
Thomas Archer
Thomas Ramsay
Harry J.Vipond
John Douglas
Errington Beadle
Albert E.Alderson
William C.Brown
Robert Atkinson
Thomas Moore
Herbert Rutherford
Thomas Henderson
Walter Ralph
Alice Renwick