Great War Memorial - Church of St John the Baptist - Skewen, Wales.
N 51° 39.722 W 003° 49.896
30U E 442481 N 5723777
A stone Great War memorial plaque is displayed near the altar screen inside The parish church of St John the Baptist, Skewen, Neath & Port Talbot borough County, South Wales.
Waymark Code: WMVG27
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/14/2017
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The plaque reads as follows: To the glory of God and in loving memory of the men from the this church who during the Great War 1914-1918 gave their lives for the cause of freedom and justice. (Names)
Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Below the sign: This memorial was erected by the discharged and demobilised sailors & soldiers of this church.
"The church of St John is located on St John's Terrace, on the north side of New Road, within a churchyard used as a cemetery. The church was built in 1849-50 to designs of architect R.C.Saunders, in Early Decorated Gothic style, of sandstone rubble with Bath stone ashlar dressings and slate roofs banded in two colours, with shouldered coped gables and cross finials. It comprises steep-gabled nave and lean-to aisles, aisles partly overlapping lower chancel, south porch, west bellcote and north vestry. Inside, walls are plastered, small high clerestory windows over four-bay arcades of steep chamfered arches on alternate octagonal and round ashlar columns, and a spindly exposed timber roof. Fittings include ornate marble font, pulpit and reredos, apparently of c.1870-80, in lavish coloured marbles, a First World War memorial chancel screen in oak, Perpendicular Gothic style in three bays, and a brass eagle lectern, later nineteenth century, on a cast-iron conical base." Text Source: (
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