WWI memorial shrine, St Mary - Burgate, Suffolk
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A memorial shrine to the fallen of WWI at St Mary's church, Burgate. The work of the Reverend Appleyard, who came here in 1919.
Waymark Code: WMPF5M
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/21/2015
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"It is a shrine, a chapel of remembrance to those named on the memorial in the porch. It is the work of the Reverend Appleyard, who came here in 1919, and who was largely responsible for the Anglo-catholic makeover that this place received, and from which it has never really recovered.
What makes it remarkable is that all the candlesticks and furnishings are made out of shell-cases, supposedly by soldiers in a field hospital in Flanders where Appleyard was chaplain. He built the altar itself, which is set in the entrance to a former chapel. If you look just behind it to the east, you'll see his helmet. Another remarkable feature of the altar is that, as well as naming the local lads who were slaughtered in northern France, it also carries the names of the two medieval Lord de Burgates. And, as if that was not enough, St Edmund, King and Martyr. I suppose that they all died in battle of a kind."
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Inscription
Wall: GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. Shrine: GOD HATH HIGHLY EXALTED AND GIVEN HIM A NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME/ EDMUND/ KIN AND MARTYR/ SIR PETER/ DE BURGATE/ SIR WILLIAM DE BURGATE THEIR NAME REMAINETH/ (Names) Step: THE VESSELS AND ORNAMENTS OF THIS SHRINE WERE MADE BY SOLDIERS OF THE GREAT WAR AT/ GODWEARSELDE, BELGIUM, DURING THE WINTER OF 1917, WHILE PATIENTS OF NO XI CCS